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Mayall
Rebekah Smith
10
Winner Henderson State HSU 31-24
3
Arkansas Tech ATUBB 24-31
Winner
Henderson State HSU
31-24
10
Final
3
Arkansas Tech ATUBB
24-31
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Henderson State HSU 0 0 1 1 1 1 6 0 0 10 13 0
Arkansas Tech ATUBB 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 9 2

W: Tebbetts, Luke (5-4) L: John Beck (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Troy Mitchell

Reddies Advance to GAC Championship Game With 10-3 Win Over Arkansas Tech

Following a 10-0 win over Southeastern Oklahoma earlier in the day, Henderson State went on to beat Arkansas Tech 10-3 Friday at the Great American Conference Tournament in Arkadelphia, Ark.

The Reddies, 31-24 on the season, will make their second consecutive GAC Championship appearance on Saturday at Clyde Berry Field.

It was a game that went back-and-forth through the first six innings as the Reddies scored single runs in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth frames.

Henderson built a 2-0 lead as Hunter Mayall led off the third-inning with a double and scored on a Jordan Taylor base hit. The next frame, Luke McGuire walked and later scored on a Mayall single.

ATU, 24-31, answered in the bottom of the fourth with a two-run home run by Josh Watkins to tie the game at 2-2.

The Reddies regained the lead in the fifth as AJ Kruzel drove home Hayden Lessenberry on a sacrifice fly after Lessenberry walked and advanced to third on a Joseph Gary single.

Marcus Wilson tied the score at 3-3 with a two-out solo home run, but Henderson would again respond with a run in the sixth as the Reddies manufactured a run when McGuire led off the inning with a walk and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Taylor.

Henderson broke the game open in the seventh as the Reddies scored six runs on four hits with a run-scoring single by Kruzel and a two-run base hit by Alex Morgan. Lessenberry also played a big part in the inning with a two-run single.

Luke Tebbetts pitched six full innings, allowing seven hits and struck out three batters to improve to 5-4 on the year.

Jay Hawley pitched an inning in relief and fanned two batters, while Josh Henderson threw the final two innings and also recorded a pair of punch outs.

Henderson totaled 13 hits in the contest with Hunter Mayall going 3-for-6 while Alex Morgan was 3-for-5 with a pair of RBI.

Henderson will take on Arkansas-Monticello for the GAC Title on Saturday with the first pitch set for 1 p.m. at Clyde Berry Field. The Reddies must beat the Boll Weevils twice to win their first conference title since 1982.
 
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