SEARCY, Ark. — Southern Nazarene was in for the long haul Saturday with just over two games scheduled Saturday, but did take one game of the four-game set with No. 17 Harding in a 5-1 win in the final game of the series.
 
After the Crimson Storm (10-18, 7-11 GAC) wrapped up the suspended game from Friday, as it lost 4-3, SNU fell 1-0 in the first scheduled game for Saturday before pulling off the upset in the finale over the Bisons (23-7, 15-5 GAC).
 
SNU opened the day where it left off Friday with a 4-1 deficit in the top of the fifth. The Storm cut into the lead in the top of the seventh with one out when Victoria Rodriguez drew a bases loaded walk to make it 4-2. Kai Sanchez made it 4-3 when she hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Riley Brown, but that was as close as SNU came.
 
Mahina Sauer (0-3) took the loss after giving up two runs, one earned, in the start. She struck out one in three innings pitched.  Kriston Shumaker and Brown each went 2-for-3. Sydni Toilolo also went 2-for-4.
 
The Storm were held to just two hits in the second game as Jacey James and Rodriguez were each 1-for-2. Katelyn Brown (6-10) did not give up a run until the bottom of the sixth, and it was not earned, but that was all the Bisons needed. The senior allowed just four hits and struck out six.
 
In the final game, SNU struck first in the top of the first on a sacrifice squeeze by Riley Brown to give SNU a 1-0 lead. The Bisons tied it in the bottom of the second, but the Storm retook the lead at 2-1 in the top of the third on another sac squeeze as Sauer laid down the bunt to score Cheyenne Reynolds.  SNU added two more in the fifth when Katelyn Brown ripped a double down the left field line to give the Storm a 4-1 lead. SNU got an insurance run in the seventh thanks to a Harding error to score the final run.
 
Brooke Tate and Katelyn Brown didn't need much room as the two combined for just one  run allowed. Tate moved to 3-2 on the year after she got the start and scattered five hits in the first four innings. Brown recorded her first save of the year as the senior did not allow a hit and faced the minimum three batters in the final three innings.
 
The Storm's 1, 2 and 4 hitters went a combined 6-for-10 as SNU had nine hits as a team. Katelyn Brown went 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs and a run scored while Sauer went 2-for-3 with an RBI. Kaley Knox also went 2-for-4 with a run scored while Reynolds scored two runs while going 2-for-3 with a triple.