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Josh Bozoian
Natalie Smith
8
Harding University HU 5-6
15
Winner Union University UU 4-6
Harding University HU
5-6
8
Final
15
Union University UU
4-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Harding University HU 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 2 8 14 2
Union University UU 2 0 2 1 5 1 2 2 X 15 22 2

W: Shearer, Scott (2-2) L: J. Ward (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Union Sports Information

Bats come alive in Union baseball's 15-8 win over Harding

JACKSON, Tenn. - The Union University baseball team posted a 15-8 victory over Harding (Ark.) University Tuesday afternoon at Fesmire Field. Union improved to 4-6 on the season, while Harding dropped to 5-6 overall. The win snapped a five-game skid for the Bulldogs. 

Union pounded out 22 hits in the game, including four home runs, two triples, and six doubles. All nine starters in the lineup for Union recorded at least two hits in the game. Six different players led with two RBI each.

Harding took a brief and their only lead of the game with a run in the top of the first. Union responded with two runs in the bottom half of the frame. Chase Diggs led off with a double and later scored on a single from David Robins. Hayden Lewis drove in Robins with a sacrifice fly. Union added two more runs in the third inning. Zane Phillips lined a solo home run to left field, while Josh Bozoian drove in a run later in the inning with a ground out. Harding pulled to within one run, 4-3, on a 2-run home run from Chris Taylor in the top of the fourth. 

In the bottom of the fourth, Union answered a Harding score again with and RBI single from Phillips. In the fifth, Union got five runs to break the game open. An RBI single from Jesse Kelley, a two run double from Nolen MIlton, and RBI double from Spencer Schultz, and a wild pitch put Union up 10-3. 

Union scored again in the sixth on an RBI single from Diggs. Then in the bottom of the seventh, Union went up 13-3 when Bozoian and Kelley hit back-to-back home runs to left field. Union got a home run from Robins in the eighth and an RBI single from Hayden Lewis to give Union their 15 runs. Harding added three runs in the eights and two in the ninth to set the final at 15-8. 

Diggs, Robins, Phillips, and DeMarigny led Union with three hits. Luis Larrinaga started for Union and lasted four innings, allowing three runs on four hits with five strikeouts. Scott Shearer (2-2) earned the win in relief, going three innings and allowing no runs on three hits with no walks and one strikeout. Marty Coursey and Kory Pollard tossed the final two innings for Union. Pollard allowed no runs on no hits with two strikeouts. 

Up next for Union will be their first GSC games of the year, a three game series starting Saturday, February 24 at 1 p.m. versus Shorter. 

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