MARSHALL, Texas – Entering the seventh inning with a one-run lead, 7-6, East Texas Baptist University scored nine runs to run-rule the game over Sul Ross State University, 16-6. ETBU is now 6-3 on the year and won five of their last six games.
ETBU finished the game with 15 hits as five were for extra bases and 10 players all had at least one hit. Four pitchers saw the mound recording four strikeouts. For the series, ETBU scored 44 runs and had 35 hits with six doubles, two triples, and four home runs.
Dylan Burnaman went 3-of-4 with two RBI and three runs scored to lead ETBU.
Jacob Evangelista,
Carson Wilson, and
Landon Durdin all had two hits Wilson led the way with four RBI as
Brett Wagner, Durdin,
Austin Barry, and Burnaman each produced two RBI. Evangelista and Nicholas Chavez added one RBI. Chavez hit his second home run of the series with a solo shot in the third inning.
Matthew Irwin received the win going three innings giving up just one hit and one earned run.
Ben Burroughs earned the save going 0.1 innings with one strikeout.
Peyton Miller came in and went two innings with two strikeouts and two hits.
Robert Croft followed going 1.2 innings with one strikeout and two earned runs.
SRSU struck first in the first inning for an early 1-0 lead. Wagner tied the game in the bottom of the inning when Wilson came in on the fielding error. An Evangelista double in the second inning put ETBU in front, 2-1, and then Wilson made it 3-1 on a single to centerfield scoring Evangelista. Chavez gave ETBU the 4-1 lead in the fourth with a shot to left field and then a fielder's choice in the fourth made it 5-1. Burnaman scored on a wild pitch in the fourth for a 6-1 lead.
ETBU gave up a run in the fifth on a home run but them Barry's sacrifice fly put the lead at 7-2. SRSU scored three in the sixth and one in the seventh to pull within one, 7-6, heading into the bottom of the inning. That's when ETBU scored nine unanswered runs with no outs. Durdin, Burnaman (2), Wilson (2), and Wagner all had a RBI in the inning to end the game.
ETBU will travel to Austin, Texas, next weekend to face Concordia University Texas in American Southwest Conference play.
