{"id":19911,"date":"2023-05-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19911"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:29:37","slug":"wolves-clinch-conference-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wolves-clinch-conference-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves clinch conference title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicholas Sarysz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Western\u2019s men&#8217;s baseball team just completed a five-game sweep over their in-conference opponent, Montana State Billings, bringing their current win streak to 10 games. Both of the Wolves&#8217; wins during their home double-header on Saturday came in walk-off fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More importantly, the wins on Saturday clinched the Greater Northwest Athletic Conference, or\u00a0 GNAC, regular-season title, with a current record of 19-8 in conference play, 26-12 overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the overall team success, Seniors Jacob Maiben and Chris Hardin were both named GNAC players of the week. Maiben, an outfielder, went .619 AVG, 13-for-21, with two triples, two doubles, nine RBI and eight runs against Montana State Billings. He also boasts outstanding season statistics, batting a .407 AVG, 57\/140, and driving in 24 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hardin, a starting pitcher, was on the mound this past Friday, April 28, \u2014 throwing a seven-inning complete, giving up two runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and one walk to pick up the win. He holds a 6-3 record overall this year, with a 4.43 ERA, allowing just 12 walks while striking out 41 batters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wolves head to Saint Martin&#8217;s University on Thursday, May 4 for a four-game, two-day series to close out the regular season. On the following Thursday, May 11, they will head back to Saint Martin&#8217;s University for the GNAC Championships. The top three teams in the conference regular-season standings qualify for the tournament, and the winner will get the conference&#8217;s automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. All of the championship games will be streamed on GNAC.tv.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">howlnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"saragerrick","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25425,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19911\/revisions\/25425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}