Sports by the numbers: Fall 2018

8 Number of times in 194 at-bats senior Grant Guest struck out, making him the second toughest player to strike out in NCAA Division II.

49 Number of Bison football games men’s Berryhill Award-winner Gavin De Los Santos played, including 39 career starts. A 2017 Associated Press first-team All-American offensive tackle, De Los Santos earned three Academic All-GAC honors and was a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation Campbell Trophy given to the top student-athlete in college football.

10 Number of career event victories in track and field for women’s Berryhill Award-winner Madison Drennan. She is one of only seven Lady Bison runners to earn first-team all-conference honors four times in cross-country.

72.70 Senior golfer Mason Banger’s school-record stroke average in 2017-18. He also set a school record by shooting par or better in 13 of his 33 rounds.

985 Lady Bison golf’s team score in the Great American Conference Championship, their best score since winning the event in 2013 with a 933 and their third-best score ever at the GAC Championship.

1.31 Number of stolen bases per ?game for the Lady Bison softball team in their fourth consecutive season leading the GAC in stolen bases.

23 Number of singles wins by freshman Morgan Salvan, the most by a Bison men’s ?tennis player since Harding moved to the NCAA in the 1996-97 season. Salvan was 15-3 in dual matches.

11 Number of consecutive dual matches won by junior tennis player Arisa Takanashi to start her Harding career. Takanashi had an 18-6 singles record and combined with Laura Golubic to form the 10th-ranked doubles team in the NCAA Division II Central Region.

4 Number of CoSIDA Academic All-America awards won by senior track and field athlete Lucas Goodspeed, joining Jonathan Dandy, who won four in 1997 and 1998.

3 Number of records broken by sisters Raianne and Cara Mason in 2018. Raianne set new Harding records in the 100-meter hurdles (14.90) and 400-meter hurdles (1:02.78), and Cara in the hammer throw (140 feet, 5 inches).