For the third straight game the Wayland Baptist baseball team put six runs on the board against Science & Arts of Oklahoma, and this time it was enough for a win.
With two out in the bottom of the ninth inning,
Mark Anzaldua hit an RBI-single to left to score
Hayden Ingram with the winning run in a 6-5 victory over the Drovers on Friday at Wilder Field. The game was the finale of a three-game Sooner Athletic Conference series which saw the visitors from Chickasha, Okla., take both games on Thursday, 13-6 and 7-6.
Wayland (24-19, 7-14 SAC) won despite getting three fewer hits than the Drovers (31-9, 16-5), who scored the game's first run in the second before the Pioneers put up the next four, including three in the third when Ingram slapped a two-RBI triple and
Jake Green an RBI-single. WBU went up 4-1 in the fourth after
Justin Porter scored on the heels of a fielder's choice, stolen base and RBI-single by Latham.
S&A began creeping back in it, scoring two in the sixth and one in the seventh before taking a 5-4 lead with a solo home run in the eighth. Wayland's
Arturo Disla answered that home in the bottom of the frame with his 11
th blast of the season.
Starting the top of the ninth, WBU closer
Jose Suero took over on the mound, allowing only a no-harm single. In the bottom,
Matthew Unangst got things going with a one-out single down the right-field line. He went to second on a wild pitch but was retired on Ingram's fielder's choice. Latham made it to second during the rundown and, when Anzaldua hit a bloop line-drive to left on a 1-0 pitch, scored easily for the game-winning run.
Suero (1-1) earned his first win of the season after taking over for
Victor Feliz, who allowed one run on one hit in 1 2/3 in relief of starter
Gloymer Cuevas, who surrendered three earned runs on 11 hits with five strikeouts and no walks in 6 1/3.
Webber, who started the game at first and ended it behind the plate, accounted for three of Wayland's 10 hits, while starting catcher Green got two. Ingram scored twice and drove in two, and Porter crossed home twice.
WBU – midway through its season-ending 10-game home-stand – plays its final non-conference games of the season against University of the Southwest (N.M.) – a team the Pioneers defeated in Hobbs earlier this season, 18-4 – during a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, leading up to the final regular-season games of the season against Southwestern Christian (23-21, 3-13) next Friday and Saturday.
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