Suero, Trevino fan school-record 18 as Pioneers earn come-from-behind, series-clinching win

Jose Suero and Deric Trevino combined for a team-record 18 strikeouts, and Wayland Baptist scored six runs in its final two at-bats to post a come-from-behind 10-7 victory over Oklahoma-Panhandle State on Saturday afternoon at Wilder Field.
 
Suero struck out six and Trevino sat down a dozen as they combined to break the previous program record of 17 strikeouts accomplished by Marcus Limon against Oklahoma Baptist in 2011.
 
Suero started on the hill but was forced out after suffering a lower leg injury in the third inning. Trevino entered and OPSU (9-20, 4-8) went on to post six runs in the inning and take a commanding 6-0 lead.
 
Trevino only gave up one more run after that, however, allowing time for the Pioneers' hefty bats to make up the ground.
 
Wayland got half of OPSU's six runs back in the third on the strength of Gregory Ozuna's three-run home run. Both teams picked up a run in the fourth, with Ozuna providing the Pioneers' on an RBI single.
 
Down 7-4 entering the bottom of the seventh, Wayland's Luis Vargas got things rolling with a lead-off home run, his NAIA-leading 16^th. Jake Green got a two-out double before Jacob Adams came through with an RBI-single, scoring courtesy runner Hayden Ingram.
 
That tied it at 7-all, but the Pioneers surged ahead with three more runs in the eighth. Two came on a satisfying double by Marco Rivera after the Aggies issued the fourth intentional walk of the three-game series to Vargas. Green drove in Rivera with the final run on a solid two-out single to left.
 
The Pioneers closed out the Aggies in the ninth when centerfielder Adams snagged the first two outs before Trevino appropriately logged the final out at the plate on a three-pitch strikeout to pinch hitter Jonathan Applebury.
 
Trevino earned the win, improving to 4-1 by giving up five runs on 10 hits with his 12 Ks and two walks in seven innings.
 
Ozuna ended the day 3-for-5 with four RBIs while left-fielder Daniel Goncalves went 3-for-3. Vargas and Green provided two hits each.
 
It marked the third time in as many SAC series that Wayland won the weekend, 2 games to 1. The Pioneers won the series opener Friday over the Aggies, 19-8, before narrowly dropping game 2, 10-9.
 
Wayland is back in action next weekend in Chickasha, Okla., for its biggest conference test yet against No. 22 Science & Arts of Oklahoma (15-6, 7-2). The Drovers met College of the Ozarks this weekend after sweeping OPSU last weekend, 3-0, 11-0 and 10-4. Prior to that, USAO dropped 2-of-3 to Mid-America Christian after sweeping Central Christian (Kan.).