Box Score SEARCY, Ark. — Southern Nazarene scored five runs in the top of the sixth, including a three-run double by
Damian Santamaria that propelled SNU to an 8-4 win over Harding.
The win breaks a six-game losing streak for the Crimson Storm (4-8, 1-5 GAC) and gives SNU its first Great American Conference win of the season.
The top six hitters for SNU all had multiple hits as the Storm went 17-for-43 as a team. The top three in the lineup went 9-for-17.
Austin Samulowitz went 3-for-5 on the day with a run scored while
Jacob Inbody and
Nate Saquilon 3-for-6. Inbody drove in a run while Saquilon scored two.
Chance San Miguel,
Luis Hernandez and
Kyle Fultz all went 2-for-4 with a run scored. San Miguel and Hernandez both notched an RBI as well.
Saquilon picked up the win after he gave up four runs, just one earned, on nine hits in the complete game performance. The senior moved to 2-1 on the hill.
SNU scored the first run of the game when Saquilon scored on a wild pitch in the top of the third, but the Bisons answered with three in the bottom half of the inning. The Storm tied it in the fourth with two as Inbody drove home the first run with a ground out and then Hernandez drew a bases loaded walk.
Harding broke the 3-3 tie with one in the bottom of the fourth with a run, but the Storm broke open the game in the sixth. Saquilon started the two-out double down the right field line. San Miguel then tied it with a single up the middle before Hernandez and Fultz loaded the bases with singles. That set the table for Santa Maria who cleared the bases with a double to left center and then scored on a Bisons' error.
Saquilon didn't allow a run after the fourth.
The Crimson Storm now get set to travel to Southwestern Oklahoma State, Friday and Saturday, for a three-game conference set.