BETHANY, Okla. — There's really only been one pitcher in the Great American Conference this year who could touch Kayla Wyatt's GAC and school record of 17 strikeouts.
 
The answer is obvious and a no-brainer that only the senior herself could break her own record and did it by three with 20 in a 2-1 extra-inning win over East Central in the second game of a doubleheader. SNU lost the first 7-2. Wyatt had 14 through the first seven innings, but the Crimson Storm (21-23, 12-20 GAC) had just one run in support. Wyatt had given up just one run and that came in the sixth inning.
 
Southern Nazarene had a 1-0 lead up to that point on a Katelyn Brown single to left. After ECU tied it in the sixth, Wyatt had two strikeouts in each of the eighth, ninth and tenth innings as a 1-1 tied carried into the bottom of the tenth. Sam Smith then delivered a walk-off home run to left center, with two outs, to pick up the split. It was Smith's 12th home run of the year. 
 
Wyatt gave up just six hits and walked just two as she moved to 13-10 on the year. All seven of SNU's hits came from different players.
 
In the opener, East Central struck first with two in the top of the third, but SNU got one back on a single to center from Brown to cut it to 2-1. The Tigers pushed it to 4-1 in the top of the fifth and added three more in the fifth to make it 7-1.
 
SNU got one back in the bottom of the seventh on a double to left center by Kriston Shumaker to make it 7-2, but ECU closed it out from there.
 
Brown (7-11) took the loss after giving up six runs, five earned, on seven hits. She struck out four in 5.1 innings of work.
 
Jessica Thompson, Kyndall Freer-Christopher and Shumaker all went 2-for-3.