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Winner Harding HU 34-20
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Ark.-Monticello UAM 33-14
Winner
Harding HU
34-20
7
Final
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Ark.-Monticello UAM
33-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding HU 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 2 7 10 0
Ark.-Monticello UAM 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 15 2

W: Adcock, Dylan (2-1) L: Jared Roberts (2-1) S: McCall, Logan (1)

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Harding HU 34-21
12
Winner Okla. Baptist OKBU 33-19
Harding HU
34-21
3
Final
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Okla. Baptist OKBU
33-19
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding HU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 8 1
Okla. Baptist OKBU 0 0 3 0 1 3 4 1 X 12 16 0

W: Jake Lipetzky (6-3) L: Kirby, Kaden (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Scott Goode (5/7/19)

Harding Baseball Defeats UAM, Falls to Oklahoma Baptist in GAC Tournament Championship

ENID, Okla. – Harding finished as the runner up Tuesday at the Great American Conference Tournament, its best finish at a conference tournament since placing second at the 2011 Gulf South Conference Tournament. Harding defeated regular season champion Arkansas-Monticello 7-6 before falling 12-3 to tournament champion Oklahoma Baptist (33-19) at David Allen Ballpark.

Harding is 34-21 overall, tied for the second-most wins in program history, topped only by the 2011 team's 42 victories.

The Bisons won three straight elimination games in the tournament and placed themselves in the discussion for one of eight spots in the NCAA Division II Central Region Tournament. The announcement of the tournament field comes Sunday on NCAA.com.

Three Harding players—Connor Kelly, Ben Brauss and Ryder Yakel—earned All-Tournament honors.

Game 1
Harding knocked out top-seeded Arkansas-Monticello in the first game of the day.

Trailing 3-0 entering the fourth inning, Harding evened the contest when Luke Van Dover scored on a wild pitch, and Ben Brauss launched a two-run home run down the right field line, his third of the season. 

Jordan Johnson hit his second home run of the day for the Weevils (33-14) to put them back in front, 4-3, in the fifth inning. Harding tied the game in the seventh on a Miles Humphrey single. An inning later, the Bisons took their first lead of the contest. David Butterfield scampered home on a Jack Thomas ground out.

Harding added a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth. Connor Kelly singled in Humphreys and Brauss doubled home Kelly. UAM rallied for two runs of its own in the ninth but Logan McCall locked down the win with his first save of the season as he induced a routine ground out by David Reyna.

Out of the Harding bullpen, Dylan Adcock (2-1) earned the win. He allowed only one run in 4.1 innings of relief. Jared Roberts took the loss.

Game 2
Harding needed to win its second game of the day to force a winner-take-all championship Wednesday, but Oklahoma Baptist took a 3-0 lead in the third and led the rest of the way.

Harding cut the lead to 3-1 in the fifth. Nolan Fertig doubled with two outs and scored on a Humphreys single to left.

Oklahoma Baptist extended its lead to 11-1 after seven innings. Harding scored two in the eighth on a Tyler Mohr RBI single, and Van Dover scored when Brauss was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Harding had eight hits in the game with Fertig and Humphreys each recording two. Humphreys extended his hitting streak to 11 games, his second 11-game hitting streak this season.
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