WEATHERFORD, Oklahoma – The Ouachita Baptist University baseball team won the final game of its three-game Great American Conference series on the road against Southwestern Oklahoma State on Sunday by a final score of 16-14 in a game that lasted nearly four hours.
Ouachita (7-5, 3-3 GAC) scored a crooked number of runs in four separate innings on Sunday, including four runs in three different innings. The Tigers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning, but SWOSU (5-8, 2-4 GAC) immediately answered with five in the bottom half of the inning. That's how the game ended up going over the next four hours with one team scoring and the other answering.
The difference in the game was Ouachita's late-inning scoring with four in the seventh, four in the eighth, and one in the ninth to erase what was an 11-7 deficit heading into the final three frames.
The Tigers combined for 15 hits in the win, including 11 singles, two doubles, one triple, and one homerun.
Wyatt Core led the Tigers with a 4-for-6 performance at the plate with five runs driven in.
CW Schrader and
Dustin Bermudez each went 3-for-5 in the win. Schrader had three RBI. Bermudez drove in two.
Jaxon Chaney just went 1-for-4, but his one hit was a solo homerun, his third of the season.
Bermudez (2-0) also earned the win on the mound after giving up just two earned runs in the final three innings with five strikeouts and no walks.
Ouachita stays on the road for its next four games, traveling to Searcy on Tuesday for a non-conference game against Harding, and then heading to the southeast corner of the state this weekend for a three-game GAC series against Arkansas-Monticello.
