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WEATHERFORD, Okla. – After being shut out on Friday afternoon, the SWOSU Baseball team came back with a combined 19 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Henderson State on Saturday at the SWOSU Athletics Complex.
 
The victories help the Bulldogs win the series 2-1 and improve to 20-11 (12-6 GAC) on the year with four road games upcoming. SWOSU returns to action on Tuesday at Oklahoma City University before heading to Arkansas for a three-game series against Ouachita Baptist.
 
SWOSU 9, Henderson State 2
Box Score
 
Behind a 4-for-4 outing from shortstop Haden Houska, the Bulldogs finished with 15 hits – their second-most in a game this season – and tied up the series at one game apiece with a runaway victory in Saturday's opener. The Bulldogs scored eight of their nine runs in the final four frames, breaking open a game they led 1-0 after four innings.
 
Houska led the way by finishing 4-for-4 at the plate with three RBI and two runs scored while CJ Faddis, batting ahead of Houska, was 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Tanner Dearman and Zach Barton also had two hits apiece and Korbin Polston had two RBI.
 
Gunnar Cook (6-2) earned his fifth straight victory after holding Henderson State to one earned run in 7.0 innings while striking out 10 batters for the third time in his last four starts. Ben Schweinfurth tossed a scoreless eighth and ninth innings to close out the contest.
 
SWOSU 10, Henderson State 3
Box Score
 
The Bulldogs built an 8-0 lead after four innings and cruised in the series finale. Korbin Polston and Zach Barton had RBI hits in the first inning as SWOSU went on top 2-0 and the lead grew to 3-0 with a sac fly from Houska in the second. The Dawgs took advantage of two errors in the fourth inning and had four hits, scoring five runs to run their lead to 8-0.
 
Henderson State responded with three runs on three hits in the top of the fifth before SWOSU's bullpen held them in check the final two innings. The Bulldogs added two insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to provide the final margin.
 
Devin Ring (3-3) got the win for SWOSU, allowing eight hits and three earned runs in 4.1 innings of action before Brett McNaughton, Vincent Berrones and Quinton Dougherty closed out the game over the final 2.2 innings.