ARKADELPHIA – The Ouachita Baptist University baseball team earned its fourth consecutive victory and its sixth win in its last seven games with a 12-4 triumph over Christian Brothers University on Wednesday in a midweek non-conference game at home.
The Tigers (16-8) scored its 12 runs on 12 hits for the team's ninth game of the season with double-digits in the runs category and 13th game of the year with double-digits in hits.
Timely hitting and efficient pitching were the headlines of Wednesday's win.
Ouachita had multiple runners on base in six of its eight innings at bat thanks to the 12 hits, seven walks, and four batters reaching on a hit by pitch.
Ouachita capitalized on bases-loaded opportunities in a big way on two different occasions with bases-clearing hits. The first came on a three-run double by
Dustin Bermudez as a part of Ouachita's four-run fourth inning. The Tigers put up another four-spot in the fifth on a three-run double by
Tallon Heine, who later scored in the inning on a wild pitch.
The Tigers put up another crooked number in seventh inning on an RBI single from
G. Allen and a sac fly by
Isaac Nowell.
Nowell started the scoring for the Tigers with an RBI groundout in the bottom of the first inning.
Cade Burris put Ouachita up 2-0 in the second with a solo homerun, his first of the season.
Ouachita's pitching staff averaged just over four batters per inning, an average sparked by starter
Cade Crossland, who allowed just one base runner on a walk in the first three innings. He retired the last eight batters he faced in a row in his no decision.
Jacob Bowman (1-0) earned his first win of the season and second of his career as the pitcher of record when the Tigers regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. CBU (11-19) took a 3-2 lead with three unearned runs off of Bowman in the top of the fourth on two hits and a Tiger error.
Cameron Marchant,
Bryce Smith,
Hayden Childers,
Jaxon Rees, and
Dustin Bermudez all combined to hold Ouachita's lead the rest of the way with an inning on the mound each in relief. CBU only managed one run on four hits in the final five innings.
The Tigers are back in action this weekend at home in a three-game Great American Conference series against Southeastern Oklahoma State University, scheduled for a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. and a single game on Sunday starting at noon.
