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O'Callaghan leads SWU to split at Blue Mountain

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. – Southern Wesleyan baseball split their final doubleheader of the season at Blue Mountain on Friday evening.


The Warriors dropped game one 5-3 before busting on the bats in game two to win 10-0 behind Tim O'Callaghan's complete game shutout.


The Warriors and the Toppers will close out the season on Saturday with a single game scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. eastern.


Game One 
The Toppers scored three times in the third as BMC picked up three of their 10 hits in the inning.  The inning was also helped along by one of SWU's four errors in the game.  Matt Craig took the loss (4-7) in his final start in a SWU uniform after giving up five runs, three earned, over 5.1 innings of work.


SWU had seven hits in the game and Mike Hyman drove in two as the Warriors notched single runs in the third, fourth and seventh innings.  The run in fourth cut the deficit to 4-2 but the Toppers scored again in the fifth to bump their lead up to three.


Despite scoring in the third, on a squeeze bunt from Hyman that scored Andrew Howard, the Warriors still left the bases loaded.  SWU left 13 men on base in the game, also leaving the bases loaded in the fourth and sixth.  They had the tying run on base to end the game.


Game Two 
The offense got on track in a big way as Tim O'Callaghan twirled a three-hit complete game shutout in his final start for the Warriors.  O'Callaghan struck out four and pick up his first win of the season.


The Warriors scored three times in the third, all with two outs.  All three runs scored after a dropped fly ball in right field allowed the bases to be cleared.  The Warriors added another run in the sixth as Stephen Wyatt drove home Matt Arant with a single.


In the eighth the Warriors erupted four six runs.  Daniel Williams hit his first home run of the year, a two-run shot that scored Wyatt.  Wyatt had doubled in Arant earlier in the inning.  Mike Hyman got the inning started with a single and moved to third on Arant's double.  Hyman scored on a wild pitch.  Tyler Bice doubled in two later in the inning to cap the scoring.

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