Box Score ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – It took the Ouachita Tigers baseball team an extra inning to do it, but Jakahari Howell (Arkadelphia, Ark.) hit an RBI single down the left field line to give the Tigers a 5-4 win over Lyon College on Tuesday afternoon.

The win snapped a four game losing streak for Ouachita (3-6) and it also improved the Tigers record to 2-0 on Tuesday afternoon games this season. It was also the Tigers first home victory of the 2018 season.

For the first two hours of game time the two sides played a routinely quick and easy game of baseball. Lyon (3-5) scored the first run in the top of the second off of a bases loaded hit by a pitch.

In the next inning the Tigers tied the game up at 1-1 after Aaron Studdard (Denton, Texas) doubled to right field scoring Victor Draijer (The Netherlands) from third base.

Starting pitcher Ben Miller (Lewisville, Texas) was locked in on the mound going 5.0 innings of 2 hit baseball. The freshman starter gave up just 1 earned run on the day while striking out three batters in the process.

Bo Sutton (Collierville, Tenn.), Garrett Hamilton (Plano, Texas) and Brandon Matros (Arkadelphia, Ark.) combined to pitch three innings of shutout baseball to force the game into extra innings.

In the bottom of the eighth inning the Tigers looked poised to take the lead with a runner on third and two outs in the inning. Lyons pitcher Brock Beacham threw a wild pitch that ricocheted off the backstop. Senior Chandler Blake (Frisco, Texas) sprinted home and appeared to slide under the tag, but the home plate umpire saw it differently as he called Blake out on the bang-bang play.

The two teams went into extra innings tied at 1-1. The Scots offense came out swinging against Michael Shepherd (Cabot, Ark.) in the top of the tenth. Tucker Harris singled through the left side to give the Scots a 2-1 lead. The Scots scored two more runs in the inning off of an RBI double from Tristan Buschow and RBI single from Logan Reddick.

Down 4-1 in the bottom of the tenth the Tigers knew that they needed to get to the Scots pitcher early. Kyle Alexander (Conway, Ark.) singled through the right side of the infield to start out the inning. Alexander made it to third base after he stole second and advanced to third on a pass ball.

Tyler Riebock (Rockwall, Texas) singled with two-outs in the inning to bring Alexander in from third. Draijer and Logan Huneycutt (Arkadelphia, Ark.) each drew a walk to load up the bases with two outs.

Studdard stepped up to the plate and crushed a two-run double down the right field line to tie the game at 4-4. That set up for the dramatic finish as Howell picked up his lone hit of the day to Huneycutt from third base.

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The Tigers will be on the road this weekend as they take on Oklahoma Baptist in the first Great American Conference series of the 2018 season. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon.