MONTICELLO, Arkansas – The Ouachita Baptist University baseball team opened its three-game Great American Conference road series against Arkansas-Monticello on Sunday with a pair of wins over the Weevils by final scores of 5-3 and 3-0.
The Tigers (10-5, 5-3 GAC) have now won four consecutive games, and have earned their second series win out of three chances so far this season. Ouachita seeks its first series sweep of the season on Monday in the series finale against UAM (10-6, 5-3 GAC) starting at noon.
Sunday's wins were highlighted by the Ouachita pitching staff. The Tigers only had to use three arms in the two games combined.
Cooper Timmons (2-2) tossed seven innings in the opener, giving up three runs off five hits with eight strikeouts to earn the win.
Dustin Bermudez earned a two-inning save in game one, keeping the Weevils scoreless on two hits with three strikeouts and just one walk. In game two, the scheduled seven-inning affair, left-hander
Teddy Webb (2-1) tossed a complete-game shutout with just four hits allowed to go along with seven strikeouts to just one walk. It was Ouachita's first shutout victory of the season.
Offensively in game one,
Isaac Nowell busted out of his mini slump with a two-homerun game, both solo shots to left field. The first one put Ouachita up 2-1 in the second, and the second tied the game at 3-3 in the fourth.
Jaxon Chaney put the Tigers on the board first with an RBI single in the top of the first inning. Ouachita's game-winning runs came in the top of the seventh inning on a two-run homerun from
Michael Quinones, his second round-tripper of the year.
In game two, two other Tigers stepped up offensively with
Jud Arrington recording a pair of RBI singles and
Tallon Heine recording an RBI groundout. Arrington's first run-scoring single gave Ouachita a 1-0 lead in the second. His second put the Tigers up 2-0 in the sixth. Heine's RBI groundout came right after Arrington's hit in the sixth.
Arrington finished 3-for-3 in game two. Chaney and Bermudez each had two hits in the win.
