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Box Score 2 MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Baptist baseball team fell 17-4 and 7-3 on Saturday afternoon to No. 24 Southern Arkansas University.
This is now the second weekend in a row that Ouachita (10-24, 6-15 GAC) has been swept. The loss is also the Tigers seventh loss in a row, their longest losing streak of the season.
Game One: Southern Arkansas 17, Ouachita 4
Southern Arkansas (22-9, 16-5 GAC) came out red hot on offense. The Muleriders scored five runs off four hits in the bottom of the first inning. To make matters worse all the offense came with two-outs in the inning.
Preston Speers (McKinney, Texas) hit a solo homerun to left field to give Ouachita their first run of the contest in the top of the second. The Tigers offense struck again in the top of the third inning, Aaron Studdard (Denton, Texas) leadoff the inning with a homerun to left field.
Leading 5-2 in the bottom of the third inning, Southern Arkansas' offense awoke from a two inning hiatus with six runs off three hits. When the inning was all said and done Southern Arkansas lead 11-2.
Southern Arkansas put another six spot on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth inning, increasing their lead to 15 runs.
Ouachita needed to score six runs in the top of the seventh inning in order to avoid being run ruled for the first time all year. Unfortunately, the Tigers were only able to score a pair of runs in the final inning as the Tigers fell 17-4.
Game Two: Southern Arkansas 7, Ouachita 3
The second game of the double-header was mostly a pitching duel between the two clubs. Ouachita started the scoring in the top of the first inning with an RBI single by Tyler Riebock (Rockwall, Texas).
Southern Arkansas scored runs in the third and fourth innings to take a 2-1 lead. The Muleriders added to their lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, with five runs off five hits.
Trailing 7-1 in the top of the seventh inning, Ouachita needed a late inning rally to try and extend the game.
Kyle Alexander (Conway, Ark.) and Studdard each had RBI knocks in the final inning to pull the Tigers within four runs. The rally came up short as they left a pair of the base paths.
Ouachita will look to get back on the winning track against Harding on Tuesday afternoon. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
