Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene won its third straight game for the second time this year as SNU downed Ouachita Baptist 5-3, before falling 19-15 in a marathon game to conclude the series.
 
Kayla Wyatt matched her Friday performance with another complete game as she gave up just three runs on four hits and struck out 10 in seven innings work in the opener. The Crimson Storm took full advantage of their three hits as Megan Blevens, Lindy Fluman and Saydi Dowd all had hits for SNU.
 
Southern Nazarene scored its first run of the game in the bottom of the first when Kylie Lang scored from third on a Fluman infield single. The Storm added four more in the fourth to take a 5-0 lead. Lang made it 2-0 when she drew a bases loaded walk before Blevens laced a bases clearing double to push three more across.
 
Ouachita Baptist got on the board in the top of the six with a solo shot to left to make it 5-1 and then got a two-run blast to left in the seventh to cut it to 5-3. That was as close as OBU came though as Wyatt shut down the offensive attack.
 
In the second game, the Storm out hit OBU 20-17, but four errors and six walks plagued SNU.
 
Lang went 5-for-6 with two RBIs and two runs scored while Brittany Taylor went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Linder and Kyndall Freer-Christopher each went 3-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored.
 
Ashley Potter took the loss after giving up five runs, four earned, on four hits. She fell to 1-3.
 
Ouachita Baptist jumped out quickly on the Storm, scoring six runs in the top of the first and added three more in the second to lead 9-0.
 
The Storm answered back though in a big way in the bottom of the second scoring six runs to make it 9-6. Freer-Christopher drove in the first run for the Storm with a single up the middle before Lang singled to second to make it 9-2. Blevens then ripped a two-run double of the fence to make it 9-4. Fluman capped the inning with a single to center to plate two more runs and put SNU within three at 9-6.
 
OBU though scored three in the top of the third to lead 12-6. SNU picked up four runs in the bottom half of the inning as Kat Lerma scored on a wild pitch to make it 12-7 and Kylie Lang singled to center to cut it to 12-8. Linder then ripped a double to left center to make it 12-10.
 
The Tigers added another in the top of the fourth to take a 13-10 lead and then got a three-run bomb to left in the fifth to lead 16-10. Linder gave a little life to the Storm in the bottom of the fifth with a lead-off home run to left to make it 16-11. Dowd then notched a double down the right field line to drive in another run as SNU closed to 16-12 before Freer-Christopher launched her first home run of her career to left to cut it to 16-14.
 
Each team added a run in the sixth to make it 17-15 before OBU put it away with two more in the seventh.
 
SNU moves to 15-24 overall and 9-17 in the Great American Conference.
 
Southern Nazarene now gets set for its final road series of the year as they travel to Arkansas-Monticello, Friday and Saturday.