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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Another meeting with a ranked opponent resulted in two close losses for the SWOSU baseball team as No. 15 Arkansas Tech dropped the Bulldogs twice on Saturday. The Wonder Boys took the opener 4-3 before a 6-4 victory in the nightcap gave them the doubleheader sweep to open the series.
#15 Arkansas Tech 4, SWOSU 3
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Jonathan Johnson tossed his fifth complete game of the season, but Arkansas Tech scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning to down the Bulldogs in game one. SWOSU scored three runs in the top of the first inning with a two-run single from
Chris Faulkner and an RBI sacrifice bunt by
Mitchell Brittain. That would be all the scoring for the Dawgs, however, as they were limited to just five hits in the final eight innings.
Arkansas Tech countered with two runs in the bottom of the first inning before tying the game in the second. They would go ahead to take the lead on a two-out double in the bottom of the eighth inning. Johnson took the loss, falling to 4-3 on the year, despite allowing eight hits and four runs in 8.0 innings.
#15 Arkansas Tech 6, SWOSU 4
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Arkansas Tech scored four runs in the opening two innings to jump on top of SWOSU but the Bulldogs would rally to tie the game in the top of the fifth inning. A two-run home run for the Wonder Boys broke that tie in the bottom of the fifth and turned into the game-winning runs.
Dalton Daniels scored an unearned run in the top of the first inning to get SWOSU on top before ATU put up three runs in the first inning and added another in the second.
Kale Thaxton struck with an RBI groundout in the third then added a two-run double in the fifth inning to tie the game at four before an ATU home run broke the tie in the bottom of the inning.
Ethan Davis matched Johnson with another complete game, but he suffered just his second loss of the season after allowing nine hits and six runs in 6.0 innings of work.
The Bulldogs – who have now dropped a season-high four straight games – will complete the series at Arkansas Tech on Sunday with a single, nine-inning game starting at 1:00 pm.
