SHERMAN, TEXAS - Northwestern Oklahoma State baseball closed the series out with Harding on Saturday afternoon. The Bisons used a six-run seventh inning to take the lead from the Rangers before closing out the 12-7 victory.

Northwestern drops to 7-5 on the season with a 0-3 GAC record, while Harding improves to 10-1. 

Colby Grace led the team with two hits in the game and a walk reaching base three times. Connor Green led the team with a 2-RBI afternoon. 

The Bisons struck first in the game after a leadoff walk to start the game was followed by a triple to left center for the 1-0 lead followed by a wild pitch as Harding took an early 2-0 lead over the Rangers in the first inning. 

After a perfect top of the second inning, the Rangers struck in the bottom of the second inning tying the game. Started with a Colby Grace single followed by a Porter Pittman RBI double to left field for the 2-1 game. Pittman scored on Harding's error as the game was tied 2-2 after two innings of play. 

Northwestern struck again in the bottom of the 3rd inning after Green reached second on an error he later scored on an RBI single by Chad Green to take a 3-2 lead. At the end of the inning, the Rangers led 5-2 after a throwing error scored two more runs. 

Harding pushed across a run in the fourth inning when Griffith hit a solo home run to cut the Rangers lead down to 5-3. The score remained this way into the top of the sixth inning when a lead-off double from Johnson came around to score on an RBI single by Bowie scoring Johnson as the Rangers then led 5-4.

In the seventh inning, an infield single came back to hurt following a walk before a single tied the game 5-5. This set the big hit from Newsom which was a grand slam to clear the bases and take a 9-5 lead over the Rangers. The inning continued with a sixth run scoring in the frame on a fielder's choice groundout taking a 10-5 lead into the eighth inning.  

Harding hit a solo home run by Doyle in the 8th inning before later adding one more on an RBI single to center field as the Rangers trailed 12-5 heading into the ninth inning. 

In the ninth inning, the Rangers had two singles to start the inning setting up a 2-RBI double by Connor Green to score two runs as the Rangers cut the deficit to 12-7. However, Harding ended the inning there closing out the 12-7 victory over the Rangers. 

Northwestern will be on the road for the next conference series against Arkansas Tech starting on Friday, February 21st for a three-game set with the Wonder Boys.
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