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Zach Beasley
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Winner Harding HU 20-17, 12-12 GAC
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East Central ECU 2-30, 1-22 GAC
Winner
Harding HU
20-17, 12-12 GAC
6
Final
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East Central ECU
2-30, 1-22 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding HU 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 6 6 1
East Central ECU 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 5 12 2

W: Smith, Tanner (5-4) L: Alec Lemmon (0-8) S: Faulkner, Mason (2)

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Harding HU 20-18, 3-30 GAC
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Winner East Central ECU 12-13, 2-22 GAC
Harding HU
20-18, 3-30 GAC
8
Final
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East Central ECU
12-13, 2-22 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Harding HU 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 8 15 0
East Central ECU 0 0 0 4 4 1 X 9 13 3

W: Wyatt Austin (2-1) L: St. Leger, William (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Scott Goode (4/9/18)

Harding Baseball Splits Two One-Run Games at East Central

ADA, Okla. – Harding split a pair of one-run games Monday to conclude its Great American Conference series with East Central. Harding used a five-run sixth inning to win game one 6-5. East Central came from eight runs down to win game two 9-8.

Harding is now 20-18 overall and 11-13 in conference and in eighth place, three games out of the final GAC Tournament spot. East Central is 3-30 overall and 2-22 in conference.

The first game was tied 1-1 after five innings, but in the sixth, Harding sent 12 batters to the plate. The inning included three Harding hits, three walks, two East Central errors and a wild pitch. Brendan Perrett and Nolan Fertig drove in the fifth and sixth runs of the inning with singles to right.

East Central came back with two runs in the bottom of the sixth to close the gap to 6-3 off Harding starter Tanner Smith.

In the seventh, reliever Mason Faulkner yielded a two-run single that left Harding ahead by just one run. Faulkner retired East Central three up, three down in the eight. He gave up a leadoff single in the ninth, but a fielder's choice and a 5-4-3 double play ended the game.

Smith (5-4) got the win, pitching six innings and allowing seven hits and two earned runs with two strikeouts. Faulkner got a three-inning save, his second of the season.

Harding had six hits, walked 10 times and left 11 on base. Grant Guest was 2-for-4 with a run and a double. It was his team-leading 16th multi-hit of the season. Connor Kelly tied a school record by walking four times.

East Central had 12 hits but only walked once and left nine on base.

Alec Lemmon took the loss, allowing four earned runs on four hits with six walks in 5 1/3 innings.

Harding's big inning in game two was fourth. The Bisons had eight hits in the frame, all singles. Ben Bailey singled twice in the inning. Perrett's single drove in two runs, and Luke Van Dover, Zack Beasley, Kelly and Bailey singled consecutively and drove in one run on each hit.

Harding led 8-0 after the top of the fourth, but East Central answered with four in the fourth off Harding starter Jackson Ward, four more in the fifth off reliever Reed Roberts, and the winning run in the sixth off reliever William St. Leger (2-1).

Harding had 15 hits in game two. Beasley led the Bisons, going 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Guest, Van Dover, Bailey and Perrett had two hits each.

Harding is back in action Tuesday in Searcy. The Bisons will host No. 5 Delta State at 6 p.m.
 
 
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