THE RUNDOWN

Ouachita Baptist baseball led heading into the ninth inning, but Harding scored a pair of runs Sunday to edge out the Tigers in the finale of a three-game series at Rab Rodgers Field. Louis Steen sent a ball to the warning track in the bottom of the ninth, but it was caught for the second out of a 1-2-3 inning.

The Tigers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Cade McBride started the scoring with a groundout that drove in Cade Burris. Cole Kelly followed with an RBI single to plate Tyler Riebock. Pierce Mitchum and CW Schrader added back-to-back run-scoring singles to tack on two more. 

Ouachita added another run in the second the same way it scored its first, as McBride grounded out to send Burris across the plate. Kelly's fifth-inning single drove in Steen to run the Tigers'  lead to 6-0. 

The Bisons got five runs back in the sixth inning to cut the Ouachita lead to one run. McBride gave his team some breathing room with a solo home run to left field in the seventh. 

Harding was down to its final out when a two-out error by Burris in left field led to the runs that gave Harding the win.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

- Ouachita earned its first series win against Harding since 2018 with a pair of wins on Saturday
- McBride tied Pierce Mitchum for the team lead with his second home run of the year
- Hunter Gautreaux pitched a career-high 5.0 innings, allowing three earned runs and stirking out seven batters

BY THE NUMBERS

.538 - Burris reached base three times to increase his on-base percentage for the season to .538
7 - Gautreax's seven strikeouts were the most in a game by any Tiger this season
3 - McBride's three runs driven in were a season high

UP NEXT

Ouachita heads to Magnolia to take on Southern Arkansas for a three-game series Friday and Saturday