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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The SWOSU baseball team had to come from behind to defeat the GAC's top pitcher and they controlled the entire second game to earn the sweep of Ouachita Baptist. The Bulldogs won by scores of 4-2 and 8-3 to give them nine consecutive conference victories.
SWOSU 4, Ouachita Baptist 2
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SWOSU had nine hits in the game but they were held scoreless by Davis Ward of OBU for six innings before breaking through against the Tigers ace. The Bulldogs got four hits in the bottom of the seventh, including an RBI single from
Zack Mang that scored
Brandon Ruiz and got SWOSU within a run at 2-1.
The offensive attack continued in the eighth and also used an error by OBU to get two runs across, including a two-run double from
Kale Thaxton that scored
Dietrick Turney and
Chris Faulkner. Ward left the game for OBU after
Mitchell Brittain led off the ninth with a double, but Brittain still worked his way around the base path and scored on an RBI single by
Jiro Morales.
Jonathan Johnson pitched another complete game – his fourth of the season – to pick up the win and improve to 4-2 on the year. He allowed 10 hits, but just two runs with only one of them being earned.
SWOSU 8, Ouachita Baptist 3
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The Bulldogs offense got going early in game two with two runs in the first inning as they eventually built a 7-0 lead before letting OBU on the board. Thaxton and Faulkner had back-to-back RBI doubles in the first to get the scoring start for SWOSU.
SWOSU used four hits and an OBU error in the fourth to push the lead to 5-0.
JR Head had an RBI infield single in the inning after Turney had a two-run single earlier in the inning. Morales followed that up with a two-run home run in the fifth inning, pushing the lead to 7-0.
OBU scored two runs off SWOSU starter
Ethan Davis in the sixth, but the Bulldogs added an unearned run in the seventh that served as insurance. Davis picked up the win and improved to 5-1 after allowing six hits and three runs in a complete-game effort.
The Bulldogs are now 16-9 on the year and 10-4 in conference play with wins in nine straight conference games. They will complete the series against Ouachita Baptist at 1 pm on Saturday in Arkadelphia.
