Top-seed Wonder Boys hammer Southeastern Oklahoma, 20-10

ENID, Okla. — The Arkansas Tech baseball team came out absolutely on fire in their elimination game against No. 8-seed Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday morning and rode a 14-run first inning to a 20-10 win in seven innings.
The win keeps the top-seeded Wonder Boys alive in the GAC Tournament and sets up a rematch with No. 4-seed Harding later on in the afternoon on Saturday. The Wonder Boys are needing to avenge their loss yesterday against the Bisons to force the "If Necessary" game at a time to be determined on Sunday.
In their monster first inning, the Wonder Boys nearly batted around twice and got RBI hits from Simon Murray, Christian Olea, Kirby Jenkins (x2), Luke Ray, Tyler Sardelli, Cole Dawson and Sawyer Duddleston. The big hits in that inning were a bases-clearing double from Ray and a grand slam home run from Jenkins.
The lead would grow as large as 15 as Dawson hit a solo home run in the second.
Southeastern Oklahoma would score five runs in the third. Tech got a run back in the fourth on RBI single from Olea. The Savage Storm struck for three more in the fifth to make it an eight-run game, but Tech would score a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth innings to push back up by a dozen.

Wonder Boys able to keep secure run-rule victory

The No. 1-seed Arkansas Tech baseball team suffered an 8-6 loss on Friday afternoon at the Great American Conference Tournament to No. 4-seed Harding, sending Tech into an elimination game against No. 8-seed Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday morning.

Southeastern played their way into the rematch with Tech after they staved off elimination and beat No. 5-seed Ouachita Baptist, 8-6 earlier in the day on Friday.
First-pitch for the game between Tech and Southeastern will be Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m.
In their game against Harding, Tech fell behind early 2-0 as the Bisons scored single runs in the first and second innings. The Wonder Boys would get one of those runs back in the bottom of the second on a sac fly from Kirby Jenkins.
The 2-1 score after the Jenkins RBI held until the top of the fifth when the Bisons struck for six runs on five hits to break the game open and grab an 8-1 lead.
The Wonder Boys would get a run back in the bottom of the fifth on a solo home run from Tyler Sardelli and then scored three runs in the sixth to make it an 8-5 game. In the eighth, the Wonder Boys scored on wall-banging double by Jenkins to pull within two runs, 8-6.
In the bottom of the ninth, however, the Wonder Boys would be retired in order to end the game.