THE RUNDOWN

Southern Nazarene shut down Ouachita Baptist in a 1-0 game in Bethany, Oklahoma, on Thursday. The Crimson Storm outlasted 7.1 stellar innings by Luke Scaggs and scored the game's only run in the bottom of the ninth. 

The Tigers had no answers for SNU's Payne Maga, who threw 9.0 innings of scoreless baseball, limiting the Tigers to two hits while walking two batters and hitting two with six strikeouts. Ouachita did not put a runner on base until the fifth inning and did not collect a base hit until the sixth. 

The visitors' best chance to score came in the seventh inning. Cade Burris led off the inning with a double. Jaxon Chaney was hit by a pitch with one out. Zach Kuykendall's two-out walk loaded the bases, but Pierce Mitchum flied out to center to end the Tiger threat. 

Scaggs pitched into the eighth, but a leadoff single and subsequent sacrifice but ended his day with 12 strikeout and no walks with six hits allowed. Ben Miller relieved Scaggs, holding the Crimson Storm off the scoreboard in the eighth before allowing a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth.

THREE THINGS TO KNOW

 - The loss ended the Tigers' hopes of reaching the Great American Conference Tournament as Ouachita was mathematically eliminated from contention
 - Scaggs' outing was his second of 7.1 scoreless innings in his last three appearances
 - SNU's shutout was its first since 2015 and its first nine-inning shutout since 2014
 

BY THE NUMBERS

12 - Scaggs' 12 strikeouts were a career high
24 - Burris extended his reached-base streak to 24 games
13.33 - The Crimson Storm entered the weekend with a 13.33 team earned run average