THE RUNDOWN

Ouachita Baptist baseball finished off a three-game sweep at East Central with an 8-2 victory Saturday at Ken Turner Field. CW Schrader collected three hits, and Jaxon Chaney drove in three runs in the victory. 

The visiting Tigers took the lead in the second inning on Simmons Sowell's RBI infield hit. An RBI double by Schrader and a Cole Kelly RBI single padded the lead with two more runs in the third. The home squad scratched across a run in the fifth, but Cade Burris' two-run fifth-inning single extended the Ouachita advantage. 

ECU got a run back with a seventh-inning single. Chaney's bases-clearing double in the top of the ninth put the game out of reach. 

Beau Burson earned the win on the mound, throwing 6.0 innings of one-run ball with six strikeouts and two walks while scattering five hits. 

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

 - Ouachita's seven-game win streak is its longest in at least 11 seasons
 - At 11-16 in Great American Conference play, the Tigers finished the game 2.5 games behind Harding for the eighth and final spot in the GAC Tournament
 - Three different Tigers - Schrader, Burris and Kelly - recorded multi-hit games

BY THE NUMBERS

20 - Burris has now reached base safely in 20 straight games
6 - Burson's 6.0 innings and six strikeouts were both season highs
10 - The Tigers have won 10 of their last 11 games

UP NEXT

Ouachita hosts Henderson State in a three-game Battle of the Ravine series next weekend at Rab Rodgers Field.