GAME INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH WONDER BOYS 29-17 (21-9 GAC)	HARDING BISONS 32-15 (16-14 GAC)
Friday, April 28 | 3 p.m. | DH Baswell Field | Russellville, Ark. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO Sunday, April 30 | 3 p.m. Baswell Field | Russellville, Ark. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

FIRST PITCH
The final weekend of the regular season has arrived, and the Arkansas Tech baseball team will play host to Harding. Both teams have already clinched their spots in the upcoming GAC Baseball Tournament but could move up in the standings with a series win and/or sweep.
 
The Wonder Boys are currently in third-place in the standings and have a magic number of one to finish among the top-four and host next weekend's opening round best-of-three series that kicks off the GAC Tournament.
 
Any combination of a Tech win or an Arkansas-Monticello loss this weekend will clinch that for Tech. The Wonder Boys also have an outside chance at climbing as high as first in the standings pending the outcome of their series and the series that Southern Arkansas and Ouachita Baptist will play, respectively.
 
In the other dugout, Harding is currently in sixth place and has an outside chance at getting up as high as fourth-place.
 
The series between Tech and Harding is slated to start with doubleheader on Friday afternoon starting at 3 p.m. and conclude with a single game on Sunday starting at 3 p.m. Prior to the game on Sunday, activities for the annual Bash at the Ballpark will be taking place from 1-3 p.m. and just before lineups and National Anthem, this year's Senior Day ceremony will be held.
 
Live coverage for the game can be found at: www.ArkansasTechSports.com/coverage.
 
According to the best available historical records, the Wonder Boys and Bisons have met 150 times in a series that started in 1965. In terms of the all-time series record, Tech holds a 91-59 lead over Harding.
 
The two teams previously played one another three times last year in their normal weekend conference series. Harding swept the series at home with two of the games being decided by one run in extra innings.
 

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TALKING TECH                                                       
The Wonder Boys enter their weekend series at home against Harding with an overall record of 29-17 and a 21-9 mark in the GAC. Tech is on a three-game winning streak and are coming off a series win last weekend against Southeastern Oklahoma. After dropping the opener against the Savage Storm, the Wonder Boys won each of the next two games to claim the series.
 
Overall, the Wonder Boys enter their weekend series with the Bisons hitting .316 as a team (488-for-1,542) with 388 runs scored, 93 doubles, 16 triples and 38 home runs. Sam Stephenson currently leads the team in batting average at .393 (57-for-145) and is one of eight players that have scored at least 30 runs this season. Three have scored 40 or more runs with Sawyer Duddleston pacing the team with 51.
 
Keaton Ranallo has been providing the best power production thus far and is leading the team in home runs with 10. Ranallo also has 17 doubles and two triples to post a .638 slugging percentage, which is tops on the team. Just off Ranallo's pace in home runs is Logan Schwenke with nine. Eight other Wonder Boys have hit home runs this season with Duddleston, Stephenson, Markos Cabranes, and Nick Jones all having multiple homers.
 
On the RBI front, the Wonder Boys have a total of five players with 30 or more RBIs and four that have surpassed 40. Duddleston and Ranallo are tied for the team lead with 47.
 
On the mound, the Wonder Boys have a team ERA of 6.20 and have struck out 313 batters in 364.1 innings of work.
 
This past weekend, Tech employed a starting rotation of John Gray, Grant Shahan and Emiliano Mata against Southeastern Oklahoma. Gray and Mata have both started 12 games while Shahan has now made three starts.  
 
In terms of the bullpen for the Wonder Boys, Will Horton has made the most relief appearances thus far with 21. Mason Griffin has seven of the team's nine saves for the Wonder Boys. He has appeared in 14 games and has a 3.66 ERA with 21 strikeouts in 19.2 innings of work.
 
Leading the Wonder Boys once more is Dave Dawson. The all-time winningest coach in Tech Baseball history, Dawson enters his 14th year in the dugout for the Wonder Boys. In his previous 13 seasons, Dawson has guided amassed a 380-269 record. He has also had six seasons with 30 or more wins which includes the 2014 season in which he led the team a program-record 44 wins and hosting rights for that year's Central Region Tournament.
 
Overall, Dawson is in his 18th year as a head baseball coach at the collegiate level as he spent four years as head coach at Kansas Wesleyan and totaled 118 wins. Dawson's combined win total at Tech and Kansas Wesleyan stand at 527. He earned the milestone 500^th win in the series opener vs. No. 13-ranked Central Missouri back in February.
 

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SCOUTING HARDING
The Bisons enter the weekend series against Tech with a 32-15 overall record and a 16-14 mark in the GAC. Harding is on a three-game winning streak after winning the final two games of their home series with East Central and winning their mid-week home game against No. 26-ranked Ouachita Baptist.
 
Statistically, the Bisons enter the weekend series with Tech hitting .304 as a team (443-for-1,457) with 367 runs scored, 108 doubles, 15 triples and 48 home runs. The leading hitter in terms of average so far is Coulton Doyle at .364 (56-for-154). Doyle also leads the team in slugging percentage at .649 thanks to eight doubles and 12 home runs. He also leads the team in RBIs with 50.
 
Harding has 10 players who have hit a home run this season with eight leaving the yard on multiple occasions. Doyle's 12 home runs are tied for the team-lead with Seth Johnson.
 
On the mound, the Bisons have a 4.02 team ERA and have struck out 308 batters in 369.0 innings of work.
 
This past weekend, the Bisons employed a starting rotation of Maddox Long, Davis Welch, and Will Roguske against East Central. All three have appeared in 12 games and started at least 11 games. Long and Roguske have started 12 games.
 
Outside of that rotation, the Bisons have used 12 other pitchers in various roles. Four of those pitchers have made double-digit relief appearances. Dylan Penick leads the team in relief appearances with 17. He is 0-2 with a save and a 2.73 ERA in 29.2 innings of work. As a team, the Bisons have registered eight saves with Andrew Bradshaw pacing the club with four.
 
Harding is led by Dr. Patrick McGaha, who is in his 18th season with as head coach of the Harding. In his time with the Bisons, McGaha has amassed a 504-389 record.