Box Score

BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene ended its non-conference season with a win over a future conference opponent as SNU rallied late and then held on for a 12-11 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State.
 
The Crimson Storm (19-25) were down 8-6 heading into the seventh, but got six runs to lead 12-8, but watched the Bulldogs (24-17), a future Great American Conference foe, scored three in the eighth. The Storm though got two innings of relief from Tim Coleman who earned his second save of the year. Matt Berry (2-3) picked up the win after going two and two-thirds innings in relief.
 
James Tunnell went 3-for-5 on the day with an RBI and a run scored while Nate Saquilon went 2-for-5 with three RBIs and a run scored. Jacob Inbody drove in four runs and scored one while going 2-for-5 while Nate Bidelman went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and a run scored.
 
SNU took a 2-0 lead in the first and were tied at 3-3 through the third. Southwestern took a 4-3 lead in the top of the fourth, but Saquilons' three-run bomb to right, his ninth of the year, vaulted the Storm to a 6-4 lead.
 
The Bulldogs though answered in the fifth with four to lead 8-6. The Storm then erupted for six runs in the seventh, including a three-run jack to left by Inbody as SNU climbed out to a 12-8 advantage. Southwestern cut it to 12-11 in the eighth and had a runner 90 feet away with just one out in the ninth, but SNU picked up two straight outs to secure the win.
 
The Crimson Storm now get set to host Lubbock Christian, Friday and Saturday, for a three-game set. Friday is a 1 p.m. doubleheader with Saturday being senior day at 1 p.m.