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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – SWOSU Baseball was unable to hold a ninth-inning lead against Henderson State on Saturday and fell to the Reddies 4-3, going winless in Arkansas over the weekend in three tries.
It took starter
Devin Ring an inning to settle in, allowing two runs on three hits and a walk in the game's opening inning. But after the first, the senior bowed his neck to put up zeros the rest of his outing to keep SWOSU in the ballgame.
Trailing 2-0 after one,
Justin Freeman got the Bulldogs on the board in the second inning with an RBI hit that cut the deficit in half.
The score would remain 2-1 until the sixth when SWOSU would strike again. A costly HSU error allowed
Connor Anderson to score after another Freeman single. Tied 2-2 now,
Ruben Rodriguez stepped in and delivered the go-ahead two-out RBI to plate Freeman and take a 3-2 lead – The Dawgs first lead of the game.
Gunnar Cook came in for relief after Ring on the bump and was able to keep the zeros coming. Cook threw two scoreless frames himself, and gave way to
Quintin Dougherty in the ninth. Dougherty couldn't shut the door however, and allowed two runs to give Henderson State the game-three victory in walk off fashion.
The offense had plenty of chances to cash in on more runs in the contest, but stranded 14 on base in the game – the same number of hits the Dawgs ended with. Wisdom had a great weekend at the plate and finished 3-for-5 on Saturday with three singles to his credit. Rodriguez also ended with three hits, while Anderson and Freeman both had two.
SWOSU (15-22, 11-14 GAC) will now have to wait to play until next weekend when they host Ouachita Baptist in the final home GAC series of the regular season for Senior Weekend.
