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Harding University Athletics

Michael Dewald
4
East Central ECU 9-36, 4-25 GAC
7
Winner Harding HU 30-15, 15-14 GAC
East Central ECU
9-36, 4-25 GAC
4
Final
7
Harding HU
30-15, 15-14 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
East Central ECU 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 13 0
Harding HU 0 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 X 7 6 1

W: Welch, Davis (6-4) L: Drake Sisemore (0-7) S: Bradshaw, Andrew (4)

0
East Central ECU 9-37, 4-26 GAC
13
Winner Harding HU 31-15, 16-14 GAC
East Central ECU
9-37, 4-26 GAC
0
Final
13
Harding HU
31-15, 16-14 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
East Central ECU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5
Harding HU 0 3 6 4 0 0 X 13 8 0

W: Roguske, Will (4-4) L: Ian Mason (2-3)

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

Baseball Bisons Win Two, Eclipse 30-Win Mark for Second Straight Season

SEARCY, Ark. – A pair of victories over East Central on Sunday at Jerry Moore Field gave Harding back-to-back 30-win seasons for the second time in program history.

Harding won the opener 7-4 and took game two 13-0 to improve to 31-15 overall and 16-14 in the GAC. The Bisons are sixth in the conference standings at the close of play Sunday. East Central fell to 9-37 overall and 4-26 in the GAC.

The last time the Bisons won 30 or more games in consecutive seasons was in 2002 and 2003. Harding honored those two teams Saturday in a pregame ceremony.

Harding had three big innings in game one, taking an early lead and tacking on late runs to hold off East Central.

In the second, Michael Dewald's three-run homer to right put the Bisons ahead to stay. It was the third homer of the season for Dewald and the 48th for the Bisons, the second-most in program history. The 2011 team hit 54 home runs.

Harding scored two more in the third with the RBIs both coming on bunts. Logan Lacey's bunt single scored Collin Helms, and Drew McNeel's sac bunt scored Cooper Newsom.

East Central scored two in the sixth to cut Harding's lead to 5-4, but the Bisons scored two in the seventh to pull away. Helms had an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch.

Davis Welch (6-4) earned the win on the mound. He allowed only three earned runs over six innings and struck out three. Andrew Bradshaw pitched three scoreless innings for his fourth save.

Harding had six hits from six different players and walked nine times.

Game two was over early. The Bisons took advantage of East Central errors to score nine runs, seven of them unearned, in the second and third innings. Harding plated three in the second and six more in the third before adding four runs in the fourth.

Seth Johnson led Harding with a 3-for-3 effort that included four RBIs. It was his fourth game this season with three hits or more and second with four or more RBIs.

The Bisons had eight hits, were hit by a pitch five times and drew eight walks. Helms had two hits, his eighth multi-hit game.

Will Roguske (4-4) was dominant on the mound for the Bisons, allowing only five hits and no runs over five innings with two strikeouts. Bryan Seaman, Max Milligan and Tyler Turner, three seniors, combined to pitch two scoreless innings to close out the game.
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