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Harding University Athletics

Brendan Perrett
12
Winner Harding HU 28-15
8
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU 17-25
Winner
Harding HU
28-15
12
Final
8
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU
17-25
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding HU 0 1 2 0 2 0 6 1 0 12 11 1
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 8 12 2

W: Lane, Kyle (4-0) L: Rafael Perez-Guzman (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Scott Goode (4/23/22)

Six-Run Seventh Secures Series Sweep

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The hits just kept on coming for the Harding baseball team Saturday in a 12-8 victory over Southwestern Oklahoma that gave the Bisons a series sweep and the all-important "*" next to their name on the Great American Conference website, signifying that Harding will be one of eight teams competing in the conference tournament.

Harding (28-15, 18-12) had 11 hits Saturday, including four more for extra bases, after smashing 41 hits in a doubleheader Friday.

But it was an inning that Harding had only two hits, both from the same player, that pushed the Bisons ahead for good Saturday.

Southwestern Oklahoma (17-25, 11-18) led 8-5 entering the seventh inning. Coulton Doyle led off the frame with a single to center. Chris Witzke walked and Michael Dewald was hit by a pitch to load the bases. The first of six runs came across when Brendan Perrett walked with the bases loaded.

After a pitching change and Harding's first out, a Southwestern error allowed Witzke to score the second run of the inning and pull the Bisons within one run. Dewald tied the game when he scored on a wild pitch.

Owen Martin drew Harding's third walk of the inning to re-load the bases before David Butterfield drew Harding's fourth walk of the inning to take a 9-8 lead.

Two batters later, with Doyle back at the plate, Harding pushed its lead to three runs on Doyle's two-run single to center. The Bisons sent 10 hitters to bat in the inning, its fourth of the series in which Harding scored six runs or more.

Dewald crushed a home run to center field to lead off the eighth to put an exclamation point on the victory. It was his third homer of the season.

Doyle and Perrett both had three hits and three RBIs, and Witzke had an RBI double in the fifth to run his hitting streak to 24 games. Perrett had both his second triple and second home run.

Maddox Long started and kept the Bisons in the game through 5 1/3 innings. He exited in the sixth, and Kyle Lane (4-0) shut the door on Southwestern over the last 3 2/3 innings. Lane allowed only one hit in remaining unbeaten out of the Bison bullpen.

Harding has a nonconference road game at Ouachita Baptist Tuesday and hosts Arkansas Tech next weekend in its final GAC series before the tournament.
 
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