Sat, Feb 13, 2010 - [Baseball]
HENDERSON, Tenn. - Brian Bullard totaled eight RBI as the Freed-Hardeman Lions split a double-header against MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) University on Saturday at Carnes Field, winning the first game 11-1 and dropped the second 7-6.
Bullard's grand slam in the fourth inning blew the first game open as FHU scored five times to take a 7-0 lead. Leamond Arthur also hit a shot shot in the inning, his first of the season and as a Lion.
Meanwhile, Amos Bingham (1-0) went the distance allowing three hits and one run over six innings.
Zach Smith ended the game one inning early thanks to his two-run shot (1) in the bottom of the sixth.
Derek Bush went 3-for-4 from the leadoff spot while Smith and Joe Mike each had two hits.
The Lions got off to a good start in game two, thanks to Bullard's three-run blast in the bottom of the first. But MANU answered with three runs in the top of the second. Noslen Labrada's two-run single put FHU back on top, and each team plated a run in the third as FHU took a 6-4 lead.
But Ben Alison, in relief of Pioneer starter Brian Rich, shut the Lions down in the last four innings while MANU scored twice in the fourth to tie the game and once in the fifth, taking the lead for good without recording a hit in the inning after Cody Fuqua drew a leadoff walk and came around to score on a successful squeeze play.
Bullard, Labrada and Mike each recorded two hits in the second game. Adam Blackburn (0-1) took the loss in relief of Hunter Fowler.
FHU (2-2) plays host to Sterling (Kan.) College for a three-game series starting on Friday, Feb. 19.
