Tweet #theGAC  SHAWNEE, Okla. - Harding won its first Great American Conference Men's Soccer Championship title as it shut out the GAC's regular-season champion, Oklahoma Baptist, 2-0, in Sunday's tilt from the OBU Soccer Complex. Jeremy Nwonumah netted his second game winner of the tournament and he earned MVP honors.



The Bisons (14-6) and Bison (12-7-1) played a scoreless opening 45 minutes and the game remained deadlocked until Nwonumah found the back of the net in the 58th minute. He capitalized on a long run up right side, made a pass to Jason Diaz who gave it right back to Nwonumah and his left-footed effort beat Colin Spencer to Spencer's right side.

Harding added its second goal in the 71st minute when Diaz converted a penalty kick, earned after Braeden Grundy draw a foul inside the box. Diaz joined Nwonumah on the All-Tournament Team along with Barry Foster, Justin Kucera and Aaron Craig.

Harding goalkeeper Michael Wasson made two saves to earn his second shutout of the weekend, his ninth of the season and 11th for the team. Harding became the first school to shut out Oklahoma Baptist since Northeastern State beat the Bison 2-0 on September 19 and the first GAC school to produce a clean sheet against them since Ouachita, in last year's GAC Championship Final.

Oklahoma Baptist's Thiago Dos Santos, Matt Guidice and Jonathan Martinez earned All-Tournament honors along with Ouachita's Brandon Hom and Logan Hampton and Southern Nazarene's Pedro Garcia and Keegan Radichelle.