Box Score ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Tiger Baseball dropped a midweek game to the #4 Southern Arkansas Muleriders 7-5 on Tuesday, in part because of four errors by Ouachita on the day.
 
Parker Norris, who entered the game on a 14-game hitting streak, scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the first inning.  Norris reached base on a walk, and later reached home on a sacrifice fly by Chris Tavares. SAU tied the game the very next inning on an RBI single.
 
In the bottom of the second inning, Norris helped the Tigers take a 2-1 lead when he walked with the bases loaded to score Tyler Faught. The Muleriders would tie the game once again, however, in the top of the third and would later take a 4-2 lead in the top of the fifth.
 
Starting in the bottom of the fifth, the Tigers added one run in each of the next three innings. Norris and Faught scored two of the runs in the three innings, Norris' coming off a Matt Sinclair RBI-single, and Faught's coming off an RBI from Norris. After SAU added another run in the top of the seventh to take a 5-4 lead, Jace Melby smashed a homerun over the left field fence to tie the ballgame for the fourth time.
 
With two innings left and the game tied at five, the Muleriders were able to score one run in the eighth and one in the ninth to win the game 7-5.
 
Errors became costly for the Tigers, as three of their four errors resulted in runs for Southern Arkansas.
 
Tryce Schalchlin earned the start for the Tigers and threw for five innings. Schalchlin gave up four runs, three of them earned, and struck out one batter. Jacob May replaced Schalchlin for the sixth and seventh innings, giving up one earned run. Josh Reeves, who was handed the loss for OBU, pitched two-thirds of an inning and gave up one run. Kyle Matusoff finished the inning for Reeves and then threw for two-thirds of an inning more, before Drew Feuerbacher stepped on the mound to get the last out.
 
Norris led the offense for the Tigers, batting 1-3 with two RBI's and two runs, increasing his hitting streak to 15 games. Faught followed, batting 2-4 with two runs, and Melby was 1-4 with the homerun.
 
The Tigers (13-13) will host Southwestern Oklahoma State for a three-game weekend series beginning on Friday, March 21.