PINE BLUFF, Ark. – The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team recorded a double-header split with Texas Wesleyan on Wednesday at historic Taylor Field, losing the first game 1-12 and winning the second game 6-5 on a walk-off homerun.
 
Senior Drew Harper led off the bottom of the seventh inning of the second game with a homerun that cleared the right field fence to seal the 16th victory of the season for UAM (16-10), giving the team one more win this season than in the last three seasons combined.
 
The Boll Weevils scored one run in each of the first, second, fifth and seventh innings, with two runs coming in the bottom of the fourth on a two-run homerun by senior Tyler Henry.
 
Henry finished the game 2-for-3 at the plate with three RBI and one run scored to tie the team-high of hits. Senior Wayne Hawkins and Harper also had two hits in the game.
 
Freshman Brent Noble (5-1) earned the win after allowing only one hit with no walks in the final two innings of the game.
 
In the first game, UAM plated its lone run in the bottom of the second inning on an RBI single by senior Matt Lewis to score Harper, who reached on an error earlier in the inning.
 
Texas Wesleyan (13-8) scored at least one run in every inning, except for the third, with its highest total of four runs scored in the sixth inning. Travis Spencer and Jeremy Fisher led the Rams with three hits each.
 
Freshman Earl Jenkins (1-1) was saddled with the loss after allowing five runs (four earned) off five hits with a pair of walks and two strikeouts in only one full inning of work.
 
The Boll Weevils return to Gulf South Conference action this weekend, hosting Arkansas Tech for a three-game series beginning with a double-header on Saturday, March 20 at noon at Weevils Field.