BELTON, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball team rallied late but left the tying run 90 feet away in a 3-2 loss to Hardin-Simmons Friday night in Belton. The loss snaps the Cru's four-game winning streak and moves UMHB to 9-19 overall and 4-9 in American Southwest Conference play. The Cowboys improve to 14-14 overall and 10-6 in the ASC with the victory.
 
Hardin-Simmons grabbed a 1-0 lead on Brett Hudspeth's RBI single in the top of the first. Cameron Whitman would limit the damage by pitching out of a bases loaded jam in that frame. The Cru tied it up on Hunter McQuary's RBI single in the bottom of the second. The Cowboys went back on top on Hunter Garrison's run-scoring single in the top of the fourth and Jacob Rains added a solo homer in the top of the sixth to make it 3-1 HSU. UMHB put runners on the corners in the bottom of the eighth but could not push across a run. McQuary reached on a one-out error in the bottom of the ninth, went to third on Jason Samuel's double and scored on Caimyn Holiday's groundout to cut the lead to 3-2. Taylor McMackin would get a strikeout to end the game and strand the tying run at third base.
 
Whitman took the loss for UMHB to drop to 2-4. He scattered eight hits and struck out ten batters. Holiday, Jack Herbert and Malek Bolin had two hits apiece for the Cru. Hayden Clark earned the win for HSU to go to 5-2 on the year and McMackin notched his second save. Hudspeth and Tyler Bradshaw each had two hits for the Cowboys.
 
The two teams are scheduled to close out the series with a Saturday doubleheader. That doubleheader is set for a 1 pm start at Red Murff Field.