ALVA, Okla. - Henderson State scored a season-high 16 runs on 15 hits, incuding five batters with multiple hits, to take the final game and the overall series against Northwestern Oklahoma State Sunday, 16-5. The Reddies also got three home runs from Austin Scritchfield, Greyson Stevens and Charles Hoof, including a grand slam from Scritchfield.

With Stevens' homer in the eighth inning, the program's all-time hits leader is now the program's all-time home runs leader after going yard three times over the weekend, bringing his career total to 28. Stevens finished the series finale going 3-or-5 at the plate with four RBIs while himself scoring a pair of runs.

Luke Farrar and Logan Cowart each came across the plate four times as they combined to score half of HSU's runs. Pitcher Reese Weaks improved to 2-0 on the mound after going six innings, claiming seven strikeouts while only allowing four hits and two runs. 

Both teams went two full innings without scoring before the Reddies blew the game open with a three-hit, six-run top of the third. The first two runs came on a Northwestern error and a walk, while the next four came with one swing of the bat. Scritchfield used his first home run of the season to extend Henderson's lead to 6-0.

One run from the Rangers in the bottom of the fourth cut the lead to five and then four after another run in the sixth before Henderson added three more runs in the seventh thanks to four hits and two errors from the NWOSU fielders. One run came off a Stevens single while the other two came virtue of an error and a wild pitch.

Owen Vanthillo came in to relieve Weaks in the seventh before working three up, three down, opening the door for Stevens' record-breaking home run. After a pair of walks to kick off the eighth frame, the Pottsville, Arkansas native sent the three-run ball over the right-center field wall for the 10-run lead, 12-2.

Two runs from Northwestern in the bottom part of the frame kept the game from ending in a run-rule before another big inning in HSU's final at-bat ended any hope for a comeback from the home team. Charles Hoof tallied his first homer of the season for two runs, followed by a Farrar triple, capitalized with an RBI-single from Kaden Argenbright to reach the 16 runs. Joshua Saulsbury slammed the door shut in the bottom of the ninth, allowing just one run and two hits before claiming the 11-run victory.  

Henderson State (10-4, 5-1) returns to Clyde Berry Field for a mid-week game against Delta State Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. The Reddies will then head to Russellville, Ark. for a weekend showdown against Arkansas Tech.