Joseph Gary collected five hits including four in the final game to lift Henderson State to a double-header sweep of Ouachita Baptist as the Reddie beat the Tigers 9-2 and 5-4, Sunday at Clyde Berry Field.

Gary had three doubles on the day and drove in five runs including the a walk-off RBI single in the final game to lift the Reddies to a series win.

Henderson, 27-23 overall and 20-13, will host a best-of-three series against Southern Arkansas in the opening round of the Great American Conference Tournament beginning Friday at Clyde Berry Field with the first pitch set for 6 p.m.

With the Reddies leading 3-0 in the final game, OBU rallied for four runs to take a 4-3 lead as the Tigers got big doubles by Will Hopkins and Jakahari Howell off of Reddie reliever Nick Vanthillo.

The Reddies responded in the bottom of the inning as Alex Morgan led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a fielder's choice. Hayden Lessenberry then snuck a single up the middle to score Morgan and send the game into extra frames.

Byrious Hughes entered the game to run for Lessenberry and stole second. After Tadarious Hawkins reached on a walk, Gary hit a rocket to left field to score Hughes with the game-winner.

The Reddies took a 2-0 lead in the first-inning as Gary laced a double in the left-center field power alley to score Jordan Taylor who singled and Lessenberry who reached when he was hit by a pitch.

Henderson added a run in the fifth frame as Lessenberry delivered a two-out RBI single to left field to score Morgan who reached on a passed ball strikeout.

The stage was set for a wild finish as OBU sent eight batters to the plate in the seventh to take the lead before Lessenberry and Gary delivered big hits two outs to give the Reddies the win.

Zach Eschberger pitched 6-plus innings and gave up two hits while striking out three batters. At one point the freshman retired 12 straight batters.

Vanthillo entered the game and gave up three runs on three hits but managed to get the win.
 
In game one, after being held scoreless in the first-inning, the Reddies scored in every inning the remainder of the game.

The Reddies totaled 12 hits in the contest with Luke McGuire, Jared Gage, Taylor and Morgan having two hits each.

Gary drove in Henderson's first run of the game in the second inning with a base hit that plated Hawkins who doubled earlier in the inning.

Henderson scored single runs the next three innings before scoring two runs in both the sixth and seventh-innings with the help of doubles by Gary and McGuire in the sixth and another RBI double by Gage in the seventh.

Chris Hunt picked up his fourth straight win to improve to 4-6 on the year. The junior from Greenwood, Ark. pitched seven solid innings, allowed just one run on nine hits and struck out four batters.

Gary finished the series going 7-for-12 at the plate, while Lessenberry was 5-for-11.