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Harding University Athletics

Davis Welch
0
Ark.-Monticello UAM 11-10, 6-6 GAC
10
Winner Harding HU 17-6, 7-5 GAC
Ark.-Monticello UAM
11-10, 6-6 GAC
0
Final
10
Harding HU
17-6, 7-5 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Ark.-Monticello UAM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Harding HU 0 0 4 1 4 1 X 10 9 0

W: Welch, Davis (3-1) L: Mason Philley (3-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Scott Goode (3/11/23)

After Two Long Delays, Baseball Bisons Sweep Weevils Away

SEARCY – The official game time for Harding's 10-0 victory over Arkansas-Monticello that gave the Bisons a three-game series sweep was 1 hour, 48 minutes. The actual time from the first pitch to the last out was 5 hours, 16 minutes.

The teams played one inning before a 2-hour, 18-minute delay. After returning to the field, the teams played another 25 minutes before a delay of 1 hour and 10 minutes. That only got the game into the top of the third inning.

When the teams came back after the second delay, it was all Harding.

Sebastian Martinez hit a three-run double to center field, and Cody Smith drove in a run in Harding's four-run third.

Harding added another in the fourth with Cooper Newsom leading off the inning with a walk and coming around to score on Smith's sacrifice fly.

It was four more for the Bisons in the fifth. Martinez led off with his second double and scored on Newsom's two-run homer to left center. It was Newsom's first home run as a Bison. Smith added a two-run double to complete the scoring in the fifth.

Coulton Doyle led off the sixth with an infield single and advanced to third on Martinez's third double of the game. Collin Helms' sacrifice fly scored Doyle with Harding's 10th run.

As the Bisons kept tacking on runs, Harding starter Davis Welch (3-1) kept hanging zeros along the Arkansas-Monticello score line. Welch allowed only two hits over six innings with five strikeouts for his third win. Reliever Joey Lawhorn struck out two of the three batters he faced in the seventh to end the game early.

Smith went 2-for-3 and matched a career high with four RBIs.

Martinez became only the sixth different Harding player with three doubles in the same game. He was the first to do it since James Anderson had three at Southern Nazarene in 2014. The last Bison with three doubles in a home game was Michael Drennon against Ouachita Baptist in 2001.

The victory gave Harding its second series sweep of Arkansas-Monticello since 2019. It was also the Bisons' sixth straight win over the Weevils.

Harding improved to 17-6 overall with the victory and moved to 7-5 in the GAC. Arkansas-Monticello dropped to 11-10 overall and 6-6 in conference. Harding is currently in fourth place with other GAC games to be played over the weekend.

Harding will host Southwestern Oklahoma next weekend in GAC action at Jerry Moore Field.
 
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