3 - SholW fI Odgge/t came back to gain some sort of revenge in a 13-9 manhandling of SAU in the nightcap. Harding made their l ast road trip of the year to the University of Cent ral Arkansas. Harding came in to the game 12-12 overall and 6-6 in t he conference. They left UCA 12-14 and 6-8. Harding ran into a stubborn UCA team who handed the Bisons two tough defeats, 3-4 and 1-4. The Bisons returned home with one goal in mind: .500 season. Galloway pitched the fi rst game agai nst the Co ll ege of the Ozarks and the Bisons won, S-1.Wi th one game and an opponent they had just defeated 5-1 between them and their goal, the goal seemed wi thin reach . The Bisons had momentum on their side but the ir luck ran out. They fe ll to defeat by the painful score of 1-6. Thi s was one of Harding's worse defeats during the 1982 season . Possibly the biggest reason behind the turnaround was the play of three members of the team: Rich Katchur, Mike Ga ll oway and Steve Ashcraft. Katchur, a quick shortstop, es tablished himself early in the season as one of the premier hitters in the Arkansas Intercolleg iate Conference. The leadoff batter for the Bisons, Ka tchur concluded the year with a .412 average and was among the leaders in the Ale. Galloway stood tall on the mound throughout the schedule and was the stopper in the Bisons rotation . Along with Katchur, he was ranked atop the conference statistics as well as high nationally with a 6-1 record and a respec table 1.53 earned run average. Ashcraft served as team capta in and used hi s four years of experience in leadi ng the team. He concluded the season by claiming .971 fielding percentage from hi s fi rst base position. Along with third baseman Marty Ninemire, these three were se lected to the AII-AIC team and only the three, Katchur, Galloway and Ashcraft, were also se lected to the AII-NAIA District 17 team.~ 1982 Ale BASEBALL RESULTS Henderson State University 11-3 University of Central Arkansas 10-4 Arkansas Tech University 9-5 Ouachita Baptist University 8-6 Harding University 7-7 College of the Ozarks 5-9 Southern Arkansas University 5-9 University of Arkansas-Monticello 1-13 1. With a determined swing, Jimmy Sites tries to create a Bison rally. 2. BaselMll Team. Front row: Rupert, Kathcur, Nossaman, johnston, Whitmire, Valentine, Musgrave. Second row: Maynardmanager, Payne, Ninemire, Daniels, Murray, Haley, Kinnear, Sites, /. Calloway-manager. Bac~ row: M. Calloway, Ashcraft, Marrs, Belt, Clonch, johnson, Shepard, Turner, johnson-coach. 3. Steve Ashcraft prepares himself for a throw from the pitcher to pick off the runner at first. Baseball /145
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