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Harding University Athletics

Zach Beasley
Jeff Montgomery
7
Winner Harding HU 12-16, 5-11 GAC
6
Southern Nazarene SNU 9-15, 5-11 GAC
Winner
Harding HU
12-16, 5-11 GAC
7
Final
6
Southern Nazarene SNU
9-15, 5-11 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding HU 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 7 12 3
Southern Nazarene SNU 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 6 12 1

W: Allen, Austin (2-4) L: Ryan Mills (3-4) S: Faulkner, Mason (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Scott Goode (3/23/18)

Baseball Bisons Big Fifth Leads to 7-6 Victory at Southern Nazarene

BETHANY, Okla. – Harding baseball scored six runs in the fifth inning and held off Southern Nazarene 7-6 for its fifth win in the last six games. The two teams will conclude the Great American Conference series tomorrow with a doubleheader at noon.

Harding improved to 12-16 overall and 5-11 in the GAC. Southern Nazarene dropped to 9-15 overall and is tied with Harding at 5-11 in conference. Harding has now won three straight games by one run.

Harding's Grant Guest led off the game with a single and scored three batters later on Luke Van Dover's infield hit.

A pair of Harding errors led to an unearned run in the first and another in the third for Southern Nazarene. The Crimson Storm led 2-1 until the fifth.

In the top of the fifth, Harding used five hits and two walks to score six runs. The runs scored on five consecutive at-bats. Chris Taylor walked with the bases loaded to push across the first. Van Dover singled to drive in the second run. Zach Beasley doubled in two more to give Harding a 5-2 lead. Connor Kelly's infield single and David Butterfield's single to center drove in the next two runs, and Harding led 7-2 after five.

Southern Nazarene came back with four runs in the sixth, scoring all four runs with two outs. Jake Vernon hit a two-run home run, Cole Lee drove in a run with a double and the final run scored on Harding's third error to cut the Bison lead to 7-6.

Harding starting pitcher Austin Allen came out of the game after the fourth run scored. Allen (2-4) went 5 2/3 innings and allowed nine hits and six runs (three earned) with two walks and three strikeouts in earning the win. Mason Faulkner pitched the final 3 1/3 innings and held Southern Nazarene without a run and only three hits. He earned his first save of the season.

Harding had 12 hits with five players tallying two hits apiece. Beasley was 2-for-5 with a run, two RBIs and his second career two-double game. Van Dover also had two hits and two RBIs.
Garrett Perez and Austin Cooper led Southern Nazarene with three hits each.
 
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