Sports By the Numbers: Fall 2019

[caption id="attachment_1533" align="alignleft" width="450"] Will Clark[/caption]

0.00 — Home ERA for baseball’s All-Central Region honoree Ryder Yakel, who pitched 26 1/3 innings at Jerry Moore Field without allowing an earned run. He was 2-0 with three saves, 26 strikeouts and only six walks.

4 — Number of times men’s Berryhill Award-winner Bryce Bray earned first team All-Great American Conference honors, becoming only the fourth Bison football player to earn the distinction all four seasons.

2 — Number of All-American honors and GAC Player of the Year awards won by women’s Berryhill Award co-winner Zoe Hardin of the volleyball team.

31 — Number of career home runs in softball by women’s Berryhill Award co-winner Peyton Mills, who holds the school record.

87 — Birdies by Ryan Camras, the most ever in a season by a Harding freshman. Camras tied for fifth at the GAC Championship and became the third Bison golfer ever to qualify for the Central/Midwest Region Tournament.

4.5151 — The school record setting par 4 average by senior Brooklyn Terry in 2018-19. She was also fourth all-time in par 3 scoring and seventh in par 5 scoring.

12 — Number of saves by softball pitcher Emma Dwyer during the 2019 season, leading NCAA Division II and setting a school record.

3 — Number of times in program history Bison tennis has finished the season ranked in the nation’s top 50. The team ranked No. 42 in Division II in 2019.

8 Ranking of the women’s doubles team of Arisa Takanashi and Rylie Cox in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The duo earned All-American honors and were Harding’s first nationally ranked doubles team since 1995.

174-4 — The winning javelin throw for Will Clark, who repeated as the GAC champion in 2019. He is the first Harding athlete to win a javelin conference championship in consecutive seasons.

6 — Number of conference championships won by women’s track, who scored 213 points at the GAC meet. It was the third conference title for the Lady Bisons in the last four seasons.