Box Score
Henderson State played spoiler using a pair of four run innings to beat Ouachita Baptist 8-5 to claim the Battle of the Ravine series, Sunday at Rab Rodgers Field in Arkadelphia, Ark.

Henderson State, 24-17 overall and 16-10 in the Great American Conference, won the series over the Tigers after the two teams split a double-header on Saturday.

Trailing 2-0 through four innings, Henderson State took a 4-2 lead in the fifth-inning.

With two-outs and a runner on base, Claude Johnson started a string of four straight hits by the Reddies with a double to left-centerfield.

Jordan Taylor would plate the first run with an infield single. Lance Fields would then smack a two-run triple to the right-center field power alley to give HSU a 3-2 lead.

Fields would then score the fourth run of the inning with a single to left field.

OBU would get a run back in bottom of the sixth-inning but Henderson State responded with four runs in the seventh-inning with Conner Brackhahn leading off the inning with a double.

After Johnson reached on an error, Taylor would drive home Brackhahn with a single to left field to make the score 5-2.

Lance Fields would then single to load the bases for the Reddies. Hayden Lessenberry would drive home the sixth run on a sacrifice fly to left field.

With two outs, Tadarious Hawkins roped a double to left-centerfield to score two more runs for the Reddies.

OBU would score a run in the seventh and load the bases with one-out, but Jordan Taylor entered the game in relief of HSU starting pitcher Chris Hunt to get the Reddies out of a bases loaded jam retiring the next two batters of the inning.

Taylor would surrender another run in the eighth-inning, but Nick Vanthillo would retire the side in the ninth-inning to pick up his ninth save of the year and secure the win for Hunt.

Hunt pitched 6.1 innings and gave up five hits improving his record to 4-3.

The Reddies totaled 12 hits in the game with Taylor going and impressive 4-for-4 with a pair of runs batted in.

Johnson, Fields, and Hunter Mayall had two hits each.

Despite winning seven of nine GAC series' the Reddies will enter as the No. 4 seed in next week's GAC Tournament in Enid, Okla. Henderson State will open the tournament on Saturday and will face No. 3 seed Harding with the first pitch set for 7 p.m. at David Allen Park.

OBU, 24-15 and 14-8, entered the weekend in first-place on the GAC but after losing two to the Reddies and with Southern Arkansas sweeping Arkansas-Monticello, the Muleriders claimed the GAC regular-season title.