WARRENSBRUG, Mo. - The Arkansas Tech baseball team picked up their first win of the 2025 season on Friday as they split the doubleheader at No. 3-ranked Central Missouri. The win for Tech came in the nightcap as they beat UCM 4-3 in 12 innings.
GAME ONE
In the opener, UCM jumped out to a 4-0 lead through two innings of play as they scored four runs in the bottom of the second. Tech would not push across a run until the top of the fourth where they scored four runs to tie the game at four-all.
Tyler Sardelli led the inning off with a hit-by-pitch. Christian Olea then hit an infield single to short. Two batters later, the bases were loaded with one out on a Brendyn Bard single to left. A foul out followed the Bard single for the second out and it looked as though the Wonder Boys might have been turned away scoreless in the frame, but Kirby Jenkins came through with a clutch two-out, two-run single to left to score Sardelli and Olea.
Grant Jones then kept the inning going on a hit-by-pitch, re-loading the bases. Cole Dawson then came through with a two-run single up the middle to tie the game at four-all.
That tie score did not last long, however, as UCM responded in a major way with a seven-run bottom of the fourth inning. The Mules would go on to add single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to bring the score to its final of 13-4.
GAME TWO
The nightcap was scoreless through two and a half innings before the Mules plated the first run on a solo home run in the bottom of the third. That UCM lead did not last long, however, as Tech responded with two runs on two hits in the top of the fourth. Sawyer Duddleston led off the inning with a single down the left field line. Tyler Sardelli then moved Duddleston to third on a double to right field.
The Wonder Boys then pushed across both runs on productive outs as Kirby Jenkins collected the first RBI on a groundout to short. That was followed by a sacrifice fly to right field off the bat of Brendyn Bard.
