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Box Score 2 BETHANY, Okla. — Arkansas Tech completed the series sweep of Southern Nazarene as it won both sides of a doubleheader 10-6 and 8-6 (7 inn.) Saturday afternoon.
The Crimson Storm fall to 3-5 overall and 0-3 in Great American Conference play.
Chance San Miguel went 3-for-4 in the opener while
Jacob Inbody and
John Basnight each drove in a pair of runs and each hit a home run.
Nate Saquilon extended his hitting streak to 19 games as he went 2-for-5 with a run scored.
Basnight (1-1) picked up the loss after he allowed seven runs, six earned, on nine hits and struck out five in 7.1 innings of work. ATU's Zach Skelton (1-0) picked up the win after giving up just one run on one hit in 3.1 innings of work. Boone Weiss also recorded his first save of the year throwing the final 1.2 innings and giving up just one hit.
Inbody went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored in the nightcap to lead the way for SNU. Saquilon (1-1) took the loss after he gave up eight runs, six earned, on six hits in four innings of work. He also went 0-for-3 at the plate bringing his hit streak to a close at 19 games.
The Storm struck first in the bottom of the third with a pair of home runs to left field.
Jacob Inbody in the first with a solo shot before
John Basnight made it 3-0 with a two-run bomb with two outs. Arkansas Tech tied it in the seventh and then took a 6-3 lead with three in the seventh. The Wonder Boys pushed it to a 7-3 lead with on in the eighth, but the storm cut it to 7-8 with three in the bottom half of the inning.
Luis Hernandez drove home the first run of the inning with a single to left before
Riley Morrow drew a bases-loaded walk. Inbody then drove home the final run of the inning with a ground out.
ATU added three more insurance runs in the ninth to take it to 10-6 and held it from there.
The Wonder Boys jumped out quickly scoring four run in the top of the first. SNU got one back in the bottom of the first when Inbody scored on a wild pitch to make it 4-1. Tech took a 6-1 lead with two in the second, but the Storm got those two back in bottom half of the inning on an Inbody single and a bases-loaded walk.
ATU added two more in the fourth to lead 8-3, but SNU scored one in the fourth, sixth and seventh innings. A Saquilon ground out made it 8-4 in the fourth before a Santamaria ground out made it 8-5 in the sixth. San Miguel put the final run across the board for SNU with a solo home run to left to make it 8-6.
The Crimson Storm now head to Harding for a three-game set Friday and Saturday.