Written by John Mark Adkison<\/p>\n
March 26\u2014<\/strong>The Bisons baseball team split a doubleheader with Ouachita Baptist Tigers in Arkadelphia, Ark. The Bisons won the opener 7-6, but lost to the Tigers in game two with 9-8. They had 14 hits in the game and stranded a season-high 13 runners. The Bisons were ranked 30th nationally by Collegiate Baseball News.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n March 27\u2014<\/strong>The women’s track team opened its outdoor season at the Rhodes College Invitational with five event victories and set two school records in the field events. Sopho- more Portia Bell defeated 22 other runners in the 200 meters with a time of 25.16 seconds. In the 4×100 meter relay, Bell, sophomore Ryan Ledington and juniors Cathy E. Ebenja and Callie McAlister won with 49.36 seconds. Freshman Kristen Celsor won the high jump with a height of 4 feet, 11.25 inches, and sophomore Tiffany Chambers won the pole vault with 11 feet, 1.75 inches, breaking her own school and personal record. Ebenja won the long jump with 17 feet, 4 inches. Rhiannon Roper broke the school’s hammer throw record of 85-2 mark, set in 2005, with 96 feet, 5 inches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n March 29\u2014<\/strong>At the North Alabama Spring Classic, the Harding golf team played at the Shoals Fighting Joe Course, placing 10th out of 18 with a three-round total score of 924. The top finishers were Blake Chase and Bruce McMullen, who each had a score of 226 and tied for 24th place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n March 30\u2014<\/strong>The Harding women’s golf team placed second in the Mulerider Invitational at the Northridge Country Club, shooting a total of 647, just five strokes behind Arkansas Tech., who won the tournament. The top fin- isher was senior Ragan Muncy, who scored 18-over 160, tying for third. They will host the Natural State Golf Classic at the Red Apple Country Club on April 11-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by John Mark Adkison March 26\u2014The Bisons baseball team split a doubleheader with Ouachita Baptist Tigers in Arkadelphia, Ark. The Bisons won the opener 7-6, but lost to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}