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Statesmen Come Up Short in Game One Against Harding

Weather forced Delta State baseball to change the location of the game, but the Statesmen did get their first game of 2023 in against Harding. Both pitching staffs had the strikeout pitch working, but 10 runs were still scored between the two teams in what became an Opening Day win for the Bisons.

 

INSIDE THE MATCHUP

Final: Delta State 3 | Harding 7

Location: Searcy, Ark. | Jerry Moore Field

Records: Statesmen (0-1) | Bisons (1-0)

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HOW IT HAPPENED

•    The Bisons struck early in the bottom of the first with 3 runs on two hits. 3-0 Harding.

•    Harding plated two more runs in the bottom of the second in an inning sparked by a triple with 1 out by Sawyer Price. 5-0 Harding.

•    Delta State plates their first run in the top of the fourth inning as Brett Burrell scored from third on an RBI flyout to left field from Brendan McCauley. 5-1 Harding

•    The Statesmen added another run with two outs in the fifth inning as Hayden Cooper recorded an RBI single, scoring Kirkland Trahan from second. Trahan reached base safely on a double to left in the prior at-bat. 5-2 Harding.

•    Delta State loads the bases with no outs to start the 6th inning. A wild pitch by Harding's Daivs Welch scored Jonathan Dewberry from third. Welch struck out the next two batters and drew a ground out by Trahan to end the inning. 5-3 Harding.

•    Back-to-back wild pitches by Koch with two outs led to the sixth run for the Bisons before an RBI single by Coulton Doyle plated run number seven.

ON THE MOUND 

•    Delta State starter Harrison Haley (0-1) pitched 1.2 innings, allowing five earned runs on five hits with two walks and two strikeouts. 

•    Harding starter Maddox Long (1-0) pitched 5.0 innings, giving up two earned runs on seven hits with one walk and seven strikeouts. 

•    Kameron Koch entered in relief of Haley in the second inning. He pitched 4.0 innings and allowed two earned runs and three hits while allowing only three hits to seven strikeouts.

•    Davis Welch relieved Long for the Bisons in the top of the 6th inning. Welch pitched the remaining 4.0 innings and picked up the save for the Bisons.

•    Noah Magee entered for the Statesmen with two outs in the sixth inning for Koch. He pitched 2.1 innings, only allowing one hit with six strikeouts and no walks.

NOTABLES

•    Delta State's three pitchers combine for 15 strikeouts to only 5 walks

•    Trahan, Burrell, and Newsom recorded 2 hits each

•    The Statesmen leave 12 runners on base while also stranding 8 runners for the Bisons

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