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Three Henderson State pitchers combined for a two-hit shutout as the Reddies opened their three-game series with Ouachita Baptist recording a 2-0 win Saturday at Rab Rodgers Field.

OBU, 24-14 overall and 14-7 in the Great American Conference, salvaged a split by winning game two 5-4 in extra-innings.

In the opener, Colton Lorance pitched 5-plus innings and gave up just one hit to record the win. Jordan Taylor entered the sixth-inning and retired all six batters he faced, striking out four batters including all three in the seventh.

Nick Vanthillo also fanned four batters including striking out the side in the ninth-inning to record his eighth save of the year.

Henderson took a 1-0 lead in the second-inning with Tadarious Hawkins blasted a one-out double down the leftfield line and later scoring on a single by Carlos Rodriguez.

Both teams struggled to score until Rodriguez came up to bat in the ninth-inning and hit his first home run of the year to make the final 2-0.

The Reddies had nine hits in the game with Hunter Mayall, Claude Johnson, Taylor and Rodriguez having two hits each.

In game two, the Reddies held a 4-0 going into the bottom of the fifth-inning.

Taylor put the Reddies on the board in the first inning with a RBI double to score Johnson who walked earlier in the frame.

Henderson State, 23-17 and 15-10, added two more runs in the fourth-inning as AJ Kruzel doubled and moved to third on an infield single by Rodriguez.

After Rodriguez stole second, Andrew Reynolds laced a two-run single down the leftfield line to make the score 3-0.

Taylor would collect his second double of the game to lead off the fifth-inning. Lance Fields would then plate Taylor with a base hit to left-center field.

The Tigers, however, would answer with four runs in the bottom of the fifth-inning with the big hit being a two-run double by Justin Weigle.

Reddie pitchers got out of jams in the sixth and seventh innings, but back-to-back doubles by Evan Ruiz and Parker Norris in the eighth-inning gave OBU the win.

The two teams will play the decisive game on Sunday with the first pitch set for 1 p.m. at Rab Rodgers Field.