NORTH LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Tech baseball team out-hit No. 3-seed Harding on Thursday night, 9-7, but were not able to out-score the Bisons as Harding won 5-1 to advance to the winner's bracket final against top-seeded Arkansas-Monticello on Friday morning.
With the loss, the Wonder Boys will play an elimination game against No. 5-seeded Southern Arkansas on Friday afternoon starting at 3 p.m. The winner of that game will turn around and play a second-straight elimination game against the loser of UAM and Harding earlier in the day.
In their game against Harding on Thursday, the Wonder Boys fell behind 1-0 in the top of the second when the Bisons struck first with a leadoff home run. Tech would knot the score in the bottom of the fourth as Christian Olea drove in Logan Schwenke on a ball hit to shortstop that was misplayed by Harding.