ABILENE, Texas – Hardin-Simmons' baseball team dropped a non-conference doubleheader with Southwestern on Saturday at Hunter Field, falling 3-0 and 10-5.

Game 1

The first game was a pitching duel between Grant Mitzelfelt and Travis Harvey. Harvey (1-0) got the better of the Cowboys striking out 14 batters and throwing 126 pitches in the shutout. He scattered five hits and walked just one.

Mitzelfelt (2-3) went seven innings and scattered five hits while allowing just one run and taking the hard-luck loss. Jaydon Stephens, Alex Carte and Caidon Livingston worked out of the bullpen.

The Pirates scored a run in the fourth on a Jake Tanner RBI fielder's choice and Hunter Fisher had an RBI double. Tanner Raschke had an RBI single in the ninth inning to make it 3-0.

Brayden Martin had two of the five HSU hits. Raschke had two hits to pace Southwestern.

Game 2

HSU pitching allowed seven walks and hit five batters in the contest and Southwestern had 13 hits and jumped out to an 8-1 lead.

Maxwell Mims had an RBI double and Wyatt Kudlow was hit by a pitch with bases loaded in the first. In the second James Vaquero walked with the bases loaded and then another run came in on a wild pitch. Fisher had an RBI single in the fourth to make it 5-0.

Garrett Frazier had an RBI double for the Cowboys in the fifth and Kuhlow had an RBI single in the sixth and Raschke a two-run single to make it 8-1.

In the seventh Corey Ballew had a two-run double for the Cowboys and Sam Buchkowski a two-run single to cut the deficit to 8-5 in the seventh. Raschke pushed the lead to 9-5 in the eighth with an RBI single and Fisher an RBI double in the ninth.

Southwestern's Ben Ludwig (2-0) started and scattered 13 hits and four earned runs in six and one-third innings. He struck out eight. J.J. Slack worked two and two-third innings for the save with four more strikeouts.

Brandon Girod took the loss, falling to 0-2. He struck out eight batters but allowed five runs in four innings, allowing six hits, four walks and hit four batters (all coming with two strikes).  

Raschke had four more hits and drove in three runs. Garrett Frazier had three hits as both teams had 13 hits in the game.  

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