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Harding University Athletics

Joel Barker
McKenna Oliver
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Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 17-22, 10-15 GAC
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Winner Harding HU 23-14, 14-11 GAC
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU
17-22, 10-15 GAC
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Final
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Harding HU
23-14, 14-11 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 4 9 0
Harding HU 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 5 7 2

W: Lane, Kyle (3-0) L: Edwin Colon (5-2)

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Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 17-23, 10-16 GAC
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Winner Harding HU 24-14, 15-11 GAC
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU
17-23, 10-16 GAC
0
Final
4
Harding HU
24-14, 15-11 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Harding HU 0 0 1 1 0 2 X 4 4 0

W: Barker, Joel (8-2) L: Dylan Collins (4-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Scott Goode (4/15/22)

Baseball Bisons Win Walk-Off, Shutout to Sweep Northwestern Oklahoma

SEARCY – A walk-off win combined with a shutout gave Harding a Great American Conference doubleheader sweep over Northwestern Oklahoma Friday at Jerry Moore Field. The Bisons won the opener 5-4 and took game two 4-0.

Game three of the series is scheduled for Saturday at noon. The start time could change pending weather.

With the victories, Harding improved to 24-14 overall and 15-11 in the GAC. The Bisons are fifth in the conference standings with the top eight qualifying for the GAC Tournament.

Harding led 4-3 entering the ninth inning of game one, but a Northwestern solo homer tied the game at 4-4.

David Butterfield led off the bottom of the ninth with his 11th double of the season. He moved to third with one out on Cody Smith's sacrifice bunt. Northwestern elected two walk the next two batters intentionally to load the bases, but a wild pitch scored Butterfield with the winning run.

Northwestern (17-23, 10-16) scored three of its four runs on solo homers.

Carter McCall started and pitched 7.0 innings, allowing only three earned runs on six hits. He has allowed three earned runs or fewer in four of his last five starts.

Kyle Lane (3-0) came on to pitch the eighth and ninth innings and earn the win.

Drew McNeel was 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI for his seventh multi-hit game of the season. He scored Harding's first run on a sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Chris Witzke lined a single to center in the eighth inning to run his school-record hitting streak to 17 games. Witzke scored on McNeel's sac fly in the sixth and on Caleb Stull's sac fly in the eighth.

It was only the fifth time in program history that Harding scored three runs in a game on sacrifice flies at Jerry Moore Field. Harding's other two runs scored on wild pitches.

Senior Joel Barker controlled game two from the beginning. He allowed only three hits and no walks with three strikeouts, needing only 80 pitches to record his team-leading fifth complete game and second shutout.

Northwestern managed a single in the second, a double in the fifth and a single in the sixth and did not have a runner reach third base. Barker retired 10 straight in one stretch from the second to fifth innings.

Harding scored an unearned run in the third. Butterfield reached on an error with two outs and Cody Smith's 12th double of the season scored him with what proved to be the winning run.

Michael Dewald walked to lead off the fourth inning. Witzke singled to right to extend his streak to 18 games, moving Dewald to third. He scored on a double-play ground out.

The Bisons tacked on two more in the sixth. Brendan Perrett doubled to score Dewald, and Perrett came around to score on an error.

Harding pitchers limited Northwestern to only 1-for-9 (.111) with runners in scoring position in the doubleheader.
 
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