WEATHERFORD, Oklahoma – The Ouachita baseball team opened its weekend series on the road against Southwestern Oklahoma State on Friday with a double-header split, dropping game one 6-5 and coming back strong in game two with a 16-6 victory.

In the game two victory, the Tigers tied a season-high with 16 runs scored on 14 hits for the team's sixth game this season reaching double digits in the run column. The 14-hit performance marks the 10th game this season with at least 10.

The Tigers put up crooked numbers in the first three innings of game two to build a big lead, highlighted by a seven-run third inning that put Ouachita up 11-1. SWOSU responded with three runs in the bottom of the inning.

Ouachita added one more in the fifth, three more in the sixth, and one in the seventh to finalize its scoring. Wesley Scott collected three of his career-high six runs batted in with a bases-clearing triple in the sixth. He had a two-run double in third and an RBI single in the fifth.

Reece McWilliams led the Tiger offensive attack with a 4-for-5 game with two RBI. Scott and Isaac Nowell each had three hits in the win. Garrett Graham went 2-for-4 with three RBI. Conner Titus had a pinch-hit homerun in the seventh, his first career round-tripper.

Luke House (6-4) earned the win in game two, which was the scheduled seven-inning game of the series. House gave up four runs on five hits with two strikeouts and two walks in the first five innings. Relievers Braden Tucker and Andrew Hayden allowed one run and one hit each in the last two innings.

The Tigers had more hits in game one on Friday with 15, but ended up with 16 runners left on base. Ouachita was held to single runs in the second and fifth innings, while SWOSU scored two in the second, one in the sixth, and three in the seventh to hold a 6-2 heading into the final two frames.

Ouachita rallied with two runs in the eighth, both on bases-loaded walks, but SWOSU worked out of the jam. The Tigers again rallied in the ninth, scoring one on a single from Andrew Cox, and then loading the bases with one out, but SWOSU ended the game on a strikeout double play, picking off a Tiger runner at first base to end the comeback attempt.

Nowell led the Tiger offense in game one at 3-for-5. Graham, McWilliams, Cox, and Joseph Bolin all had two hits in the game.

The series-deciding game is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. in Weatherford.