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Harding Baseball
14
Winner Harding HU 12-5, 5-3 GAC
8
East Central ECU 7-10, 4-4 GAC
Winner
Harding HU
12-5, 5-3 GAC
14
Final
8
East Central ECU
7-10, 4-4 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Harding HU 1 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 6 14 15 2
East Central ECU 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0 0 8 8 2

W: Yakel, Ryder (1-0) L: Hut Smith (0-2)

8
Winner Harding HU 13-5, 6-3 GAC
4
East Central ECU 7-11, 4-5 GAC
Winner
Harding HU
13-5, 6-3 GAC
8
Final
4
East Central ECU
7-11, 4-5 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Harding HU 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 11 1
East Central ECU 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 8 2

W: Hoecker, Ty (2-1) L: Chavez,Jonny (1-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Scott Goode (2/29/20)

Harding Baseball Sweeps East Central in Three-Game Series

ADA, Okla. – Harding scored 22 runs on 26 hits and won both games of a doubleheader Saturday to sweep a three-game Great American Conference series against East Central.

With the victories, Harding improved to 13-5 overall and 6-3 in the GAC. East Central fell to 7-11 overall and 4-5 in the GAC.

Harding led big early and led big again late in winning game one 14-8. The Bisons had 15 hits, led by four each from Luke Van Dover and Cody Smith. It was Van Dover's second career four-hit game and Smith's first.

Harding had an 8-3 lead, but East Central used two hits and five walks to score five in the bottom of the seventh and tie the game. Neither team scored again until the top of the 10th when Harding plated six runs. Cody Smith hit a three-run home run in the inning, and Owen Martin had a two-run triple.

Ryder Yakel (1-0) pitched the final 3 2/3 innings, allowing only one hit and striking out five to earn the win. Logan McCall started and went five innings with three earned runs allowed and eight strikeouts.

East Central reliever Hut Smith (0-2) took the loss. All six runs he allowed over two innings were unearned.

Van Dover doubled in a run in the first and singled and drove in a run in Harding's two-run second inning.

Connor Kelly's two-run homer in the fifth gave Harding a 5-0 lead.

East Central scored its first run off Harding starter Logan McCall in the bottom of the fifth, but Harding answered with a three-run sixth, highlighted by Van Dover's two-run double that gave the Bisons an 8-1 lead.

Harding scored all of its runs with two outs in an 8-4 victory in game two, scoring three runs in the third and five in the seventh.

In the third, Martin singled and scored on Michael Chrisman's triple. Miles Humphrey's drove in Chrisman with an infield single, and Humphreys later scored on Kelly's single to left.

Harding blew the game open in the seventh. Chrisman reached on an error allowing Brendan Perrett to score from third. Humphreys drove in two runs with a single, and Kelly doubled in two more.

Ty Hoecker (2-1) pitched all seven innings for Harding, and allowed three earned runs on eight hits. He struck out five and walked just two.

Kelly was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and Humphreys was 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBIs. Martin had three hits and scored twice.

East Central starter Jonny Chavez (1-4) went the distance and took the loss.

Harding returns to action Tuesday for a doubleheader against Williams Baptist in Searcy.
 
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