By Jon Chidester
SWOSU Sports Information 

Bulldogs Overcome Lightning and Crimson Storm to Sweep Series

 


WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball was hit with nearly an hour delay during the game, but waited through it and came out victorious over Southern Nazarene 5-1 on Saturday in the final game of the series.

The Crimson Storm started the scoring for the day in the fourth inning after the Bulldogs allowed a leadoff hit to come around and score later in the frame. That run would be all SNU would end up getting all afternoon, as Devin Ring and Gunnar Cook held Southern Nazarene to zeros the rest of the way.

The offense finally woke up after the lead was surrendered in the fourth and answered with a four spot themselves in the bottom half. Back-to-back doubles from Daniel Richardson and Jason Nichols plated the first run followed by a sac fly from Rafael Otero and a two-out, two RBI single from Danny-David Linahan.

The Dawgs would get one more run in the sixth courtesy of a wild pitch after a pitching change to provide a little extra insurance for the remaining innings.

Ring (W, 3-4) got the start on the bump and went 5.0 innings, conceding one run while striking out five and walking one. Cook came in for a fresh inning starting in the sixth and pitched 4.0 scoreless innings himself, striking out three and walking one. After sitting for almost an hour after the lightning struck, Cook came back to pitch the ninth and close out the game to give the Dawgs the game-three victory. In the process, the senior earned an unconventional save by pitching four effective innings while preserving the lead.

The win marks the first three-game Great American Conference series sweep of the season, and puts the Bulldogs just one game shy of the .500 mark in league play with a 9-10 record.

SWOSU, now 13-17 overall on the year will wrap up their eight-game home stand on Tuesday against Science & Arts (USAO) before traveling to Shawnee next weekend for another three-game set with Oklahoma Baptist.

 

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