WEATHERFORD, Okla. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team split a Great American Conference doubleheader against Southwestern Oklahoma State on the road Saturday, taking game one 11-5, and falling in game two, 8-1. 

Game one for Arkansas-Monticello (17-11, 13-5 GAC) saw the Weevils in a back-and-forth offensive battle against the hosting Bulldogs of Southwestern (10-17, 6-10 GAC), as each team trading leads early throughout this first contest.

The Bulldogs were on the board first leading 2-0, until UAM took the lead in the top of the third with a Brady Weiss three-run home-run to right center, giving the Weevils the slight advantage at 3-2. 

UAM once again answered back SWOSU after surrendering the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, Arkansas-Monticello reclaimed it in the sixth as Andres Rios singled up the middle to knock in a pair of runs. 

The ballgame entered the eighth inning in a tie between the clubs at 5-5, but UAM would break the scoring open late in the match-up, scoring three runs in both the eighth and ninth inning to ultimately take the game at 11-5.

Braden Chambers and Landon McFadden each threw over four innings for the Weevils and McFadden went on to be credited with the win on the day, allowing two hits, one run and struck out two. 

The second match-up of the afternoon featured a close match-up early on as UAM once again finding itself down, tied the game up after a Guy Halbert solo shot to left field to even things up at 1-1. 

Unfortunately it was all Southwestern from that point on as the Weevils allowed seven unanswered runs to fall in the final game of the series at 8-1, but did claim the series overall at 2-1 however. 

The Weevils return to action next on Friday, March 31, as UAM will face Henderson State in a three-game GAC series on the road in Arkadelphia, Arkansas with game one slated to start at 6 p.m.