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Baseball By: Daniel Gallegos

Strother goes the distance in SAU’s 5-1 win over Harding final home game of 2014

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MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The No. 12-ranked Southern Arkansas baseball team closed out their 2014 home slate of games on Tuesday afternoon with a non-conference tilt against Harding University. SAU would come out on top in the home finale as Colton Strother pitched a one-run complete game, helping the Muleriders to a 5-1 win.
 
The one run that Strother would give up in the game came in the top of the first inning as the Bisons (26-19) opened with consecutive singles. On the second of those singles, leadoff hitter Trent Wooldridge would take third base to put runners on the corners with no outs.
 
In the ensuing at-bat, Strother would induce the first of his three groundball double plays as he got the GAC's leading hitter, Matt Calhoun to hit into the twin-killing. Wooldridge would score on the play, but that would be all the scoring the Bisons would be able to muster off of Strother.
 
That early 1-0 deficit did not last long for the Muleriders (33-14) as they scored twice in the bottom of the first to take a 2-1 lead. Both runs came home on double to left-centerfield by Jackson McCurdy. In the fourth, the Muleriders would plate a run on a Tyler Cameron RBI groundout to make it a 3-1 game.
 
In the next inning, the Muleriders would score two more runs of insurance as they were able to take advantage of an errant throw home with the bases loaded by the Bisons' third basemen. McCurdy and Korey Keith would score on that play.
 
Now staked to a four-run lead, Strother would cruise through the final four innings on the mound as he allowed just one hit, a flair off the end of the bat by Calhoun to leadoff the ninth. After a flyout in the next at-bat, Calhoun was erased off the base path as Strother got a game-ending double play.
 
The Muleriders will now prepare for a crucial road series at No. 25-ranked Arkansas-Monticello over the weekend. The Boll Weevils enter play this weekend as the no. 2 team in the GAC, with the Muleriders in third, three games back of UAM. The three-game set will begin with a single game on Friday, April 25 at 2 p.m.
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