Bolivar, MO. — Back at home in the Dodson field, Southwest Baptist baseball won the first of three games against the Champion Christian Tigers with a commanding 13-3 final score. This win brings the total SBU record to 4-6 with junior pitcher Ryne Kaiser now going 1-2 on the season for SBU.
 
Champion Christian opened the game with a first inning homer, which was quickly responded to with the Bearcats scoring three in the bottom of the first. SBU would go for two innings unanswered before the Tigers would respond to make it 6-3 in favor of SBU.Starting in the 5th inning, the Bearcats would go on to score seven more unanswered run causing a run-rule win in the 7th. 
 
The Bearcats were led by Senior Left fielder Raydley Legito who scored three of SBU's runs, helping him to a season high in runs. He was followed by junior designated hitter Cooper Burgess and junior third baseman Beau Honeycutt with two of their own runs each. The team totaled 13 runs and 12 hits over the 34 at bats throughout the game. Three different Bearcats recorded a home run from Burgess, Lane Snow, and Sam Schmidt.

SBU will be back at Dodson Field tomorrow Saturday, February 27th to face Champion Christian twice more. They will start the second day of the series at 12:00pm followed by the series finale at 2:00pm. For all of the latest information on the Baseball team and SBU Athletics, please visit sbubearcats.com, or follow our Instagram to find up-to-the-minute updates and daily content.