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Harding University Athletics

Coulton Doyle
6
Winner Southwestern Okla. SWOSU 13-12, 8-7 GAC
3
Harding HU 18-8, 8-7 GAC
Winner
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU
13-12, 8-7 GAC
6
Final
3
Harding HU
18-8, 8-7 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southwestern Okla. SWOSU 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 6 13 0
Harding HU 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 8 0

W: Ernesto Hidrogo (2-1) L: Welch, Davis (3-2) S: Grant Ewy (2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Scott Goode (3/19/23)

Baseball Bisons Drop Series Finale 6-3

SEARCY – Harding hit two solo home runs Sunday in its Great American Conference season finale against Southwestern Oklahoma, but the Bisons could not overcome a 13-hit attack by the Bulldogs and fell 6-3 at Jerry Moore Field.

The Bisons fell to 18-8 overall and 8-7 in conference. Southwestern is 13-12 overall and also 8-7 in conference. The two teams are part of a five-way tie for fourth place in the conference standings. Harding does not have a midweek game and travels to Alva, Oklahoma, next weekend for a three-game series against Northwestern Oklahoma.

Harding scored first in the third inning on Coulton Doyle's sixth home run of the season. He hit a towering fly ball that snuck just inside the left field foul line.

Southwestern scored three in the fifth before Harding struck again in the sixth. Seth Johnson lined his first triple of the season off the wall in left center field. Doyle then ripped a single to left to score Johnson. It was Doyle's team-leading 29th RBI of the season.

Doyle has had three hits in a game three times this season and has reached safely in 24 straight games.

Southwestern added a single run in the seventh and two more in the top of the ninth.

Colin Helms hit his second home run of the season, a no-doubter over the fence in right center, to cut the lead to three runs, but the Bisons got no closer.

Harding had only six at-bats in the game with runners in scoring position, with Doyle delivering both of Harding's hits. Southwestern went 4-for-16 with runners in scoring position, leaving 12 runners on base.

Davis Welch (3-2) started and pitched 4.1 innings for Harding, allowing three runs. Luke Whaley pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless relief.
 
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