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Box Score 2 The weather was nice but the games weren't pretty for the Pioneer baseball team Friday. In a round-robin tournament, Wayland fell to Houston-Victoria, 11-2, and then surrendered two leads to Peru State before falling to the Cougars, 13-9.
Houston-Victoria (8-5) put it on the Pioneers, who were coming off an impressive 7-4 win over Lubbock Christian on Tuesday, in WBU's first game.
Wayland (6-8) got five runners on in the first six innings, but Andrew Walker held the Pioneers hitless through the first six frames.
Ernesto Lizardi recorded Wayland's first hit of the game when he led off the bottom of the seventh with a single to left field.
The Jaguars got the next batter to ground into a double play, but
Brayden Blackwell kept the inning going with a two-out walk.
Josh Vera reached first after striking out but hustled after a wild pitch kept the ball in play, then
Kyle Herrington hit an RBI single to right field to take away the shut out.
Colton Palmer stole second, and when the throw down went into center field, Vera trotted home to score WBU's second run of the game.
Houston-Victoria shut the Pioneers down in the eighth, and after Victor Coronado hit his second home run of the game, Steven Ellis closed out the game for the Jaguars, giving UHV an 11-2 win.
Jake Doyle started game one for the Pioneers, and looked good in his first outing of the season, but in the fourth inning fatigue started to rear its ugly head. The
Jaguars scored two runs of two hits and a walk in the fourth, then tacked on three more with a three-run bomb that knocked Doyle out of the game.
Joey DiCarlo threw the final five innings of the game, and aside from a shaky start in which the senior gave up three runs, the senior from Phoenix had a solid outing. In his final four innings, DiCarlo spaced out two runs off three hits, striking out three.
In game two, Wayland's bats showed up, but the Pioneers struggled on the mound.
After a scoreless first, Peru State (3-3) went ahead, 1-0, with a solo home run over the left-field bullpen. The Pioneers answered with a run of their own in the home half of the first after
Dillan Vigil singled to right and
Austin Davis tripled to right center. Both knocks were the two sophomores' first hits of the season.
Josh Alexander hit a towering home run to center in the third, his second of the season, to give WBU a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the third.
In the top of the fourth, the Cougars got to starting pitcher
Jordie Henry, who looked phenomenal in his first three innings on the mound. Peru State started the fourth off with five straight hits, including two doubles and a triple, to score four runs and prompt head coach
Brad Bass to go to the bullpen.
Jose Urena escaped the inning with minimal damage, giving up a run on a sacrifice fly but got the Pioneers back in the dugout before any more runs crossed the plate.
Wayland didn't lay down after the big inning from Peru State, scoring four runs in their next at bat to retake the lead.
Ethan Percell singled and Vigil doubled to lead off the inning, and Davis brought Percell home with an RBI single.
Skyler Wood drove in another run, singling to right after falling behind in the count, no balls and two strikes. Davis and Bass went on to score on two separate wild pitches, giving Wayland a 7-6 lead.
The Cougars kept hitting, however, and in the top of the fifth Peru State tied the game on an RBI ground out. Then, in the sixth, the Cougars scored five more runs to take the lead for good.
Wayland made things a little interesting in their final at bat, getting four runners on and scoring two, but the Pioneers were in too deep a hole and Peru State went on to win, 13-9.
The Pioneers have a rematch with both teams Saturday, starting with Peru State at 10 a.m. before taking on Houston-Victoria around 4 p.m. at Wilder Field.
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