MARSHALL, Texas – A rain extended game led to a soggy finish for #5 East Texas Baptist University as they dropped the final game of the series to Pomona-Pitzer College, 10-5. The game originally started at 7:00 p.m. and ended after 12:30 a.m. due to a two-hour rain delay. ETBU is now 1-2 on the year.
ETBU only had four hits in the game producing five runs.
Brett Wagner,
Landon Durdin,
Hunter Rumachik, and
Dylan Burnaman all had a hit. Rumachik, Burnaman, and
Nick Massarini recorded one RBI.
The pitching staff struck out 15 Pomona-Pitzer batters but gave up nine earned runs and 12 hits.
Hayden Robichaux went three innings for the no decision with eight strikeouts. Robert Craft followed with four strikeouts as
Ben Burroughs had one and
Tate Sloan two.
Braden Karnes received the loss.
Pomona-Pitzer took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning but ETBU rallied in the fourth inning taking a 2-1 lead when the rain hit. Rumachik walked with the bases loaded to tie the game and Burnaman singled as Durdin came in for the lead. The bases were loaded when the evening skies started a down pour and the game was delayed for two hours.
The Sagehens came back and brought in a new pitcher allowing Massarini a sacrifice fly to right field for the two-run lead, 3-1. Pomona-Pitzer added a run in the sixth and tied the game in the seventh at three before taking the lead, 4-3, in the top of the eighth inning.
ETBU tied the game at four on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning as
Carson Wilson came in. On that same play, Burnaman was the go-ahead run as the catcher over threw third base allowing him to score to make it 5-4.
After a single started the inning a caught foul ball for the first out, back-to-back walks loaded the bases. A Sagehen pinch hitter singled down the right field line to retake the lead, 6-5. The next batter was hit by the pitch before Pomona-Pitzer finished off the scoring with a grand slam home run for the five-run lead, 10-5. ETBU had only one hit in the bottom of the ninth as the series ended in favor of the Sagehens.
ETBU's schedule doesn't get any easier as they head to Alabama next weekend to face #6 Lynchburg, #12 Birmingham Southern, and Millkin in the BSC Classic.
