GOLF
HSU men, ATU women win in Mountain Home
The Henderson State University men's team and the Arkansas Tech University women's team won the Southern Bancorp Invitational on Tuesday at Big Creek Golf Club in Mountain Home.
Drew Greenwood claimed medalist honors on the men's side after beating Missouri Western's Patrick McCarthy in a playoff. Henderson State won the tournament as a team for the third consecutive year, beating Missouri Southern University by four shots. The University of Arkansas at Monticello finished fifth in the team standings, while Henderson State's B team and the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith tied for sixth, while Southern Arkansas University finished in eighth place.
Arkansas Tech, which won the team title for the second consecutive year, was led by medalist Pia Nunbhakdi and Caroline Fredensborg, who finished tied for second place with UAM's Lauren Johnson and SAU's Helle Leed. Nunbhakdi shot consecutive rounds of 1-over 73 to win the medalist honors by one shot. Arkansas-Fort Smith finished fifth in the women's team standings, while Southern Arkansas finished eighth.
UALR men finish fourth
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's men's team finished fourth Tuesday at the Redhawk Invitational, played at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash.
Iowa State won the team title with an 853 total, finishing one shot better than Northwestern. Host Seattle finished in third place and UALR was ahead of Brigham Young by two shots.
Tyler Reynolds carded an even-par 70 in Tuesday's final round to finish in fourth place individually at 4-under 208, marking the second-best tournament finish of his career.
TRACK AND FIELD
SEC honors Arkansas' Brooks
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville redshirt junior Taliyah Brooks was named the SEC's women's field athlete of the week Tuesday after her record-breaking performance in the heptathlon at the Texas Relays last weekend in Austin, Texas.
Brooks was the top collegiate performer at the event, finishing with 6,075 points. She leads the NCAA and sits No. 2 on the world performance list, in addition to holding school records in the pentathlon, and the indoor and outdoor long jump.
Harding's Syrotchen honored again
Harding University senior Josh Syrotchen was honored Tuesday as the USTFCCCA NCAA Division II men's athlete of the week for the second time in three weeks.
Syrotchen hit an NCAA Division II automatic qualifying mark in the discus and set a new season best with a throw of 195 feet, 4 inches, at the Joey Haines Invite in Cape Girardeau, Mo. His throw was over 13 feet further than his nearest competitor and was the fifth-best by any collegiate athlete last weekend.
BASEBALL
Fullerton leads Harding past Lane
Harding University (12-21) sent 12 batters to the plate and scored 8 runs in the second inning in a 13-3 victory over Lane (1-22) on Tuesday at Jerry Moore Field in Searcy. The game ended after seven innings because of the NCAA's 10-run rule.
Lane had four of its 10 hits in the first inning and scored twice. Harding trimmed the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Luke Van Dover, then blew the game open in the second inning. Two key hits came with the bases loaded: a two-run single by Myles Humphreys and a three-run double from J. Paul Fullerson, who finished 2 for 2 with 1 run scored and 4 RBI. The Bisons tacked on single runs in the third and sixth innings to take an 11-2 lead.
Lane's Chris O'Neal drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth inning to pull within 11-3, but Harding ended the game when Van Dover's grounder got by Keishaun Clark and two runs scored in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Bisons used a different pitcher in each inning. Matt Sherry (1-0) struck out the side in the second inning to earn the victory. Harding pitchers struck out a season-high 11 batters. Grant Guest and Connor Kelly had two hits apiece for the Bisons, and leadoff hitter Ben Brauss scored three runs.
SOFTBALL
UCA loses to No. 21 Ole Miss
The University of Central Arkansas got a solid pitching performance from senior Kayla Gomness, but couldn't drum up any offense in a 1-0, 12-inning loss to No. 21 Ole Miss (25-11).
Gomness (8-12) limited the No. 21 Rebels to the lone run on 15 hits in 111/3 innings with 1 strikeout and holding Ole Miss to 2-of-13 hitting with runners in scoring position.
Kayla Crutchner went 3 for 3 with a walk to lead UCA (13-26) offensively, while Lauren Brooks, Bailey Reynolds and Kate Myers each added a hit.
Sports on 04/05/2017