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Baseball Drops Final Game at Kingsville on 9th Inning Walkoff

4/22/2018 9:20:00 PM

Box Score UT Permian Basin baseball scored five straight runs to tie Sunday's fourth and final game of the weekend, but #19 Texas A&M Kingsville got three straight hits with an out in the ninth inning to take a 6-5 win Sunday afternoon at Nolan Ryan Field in Kingsville, Texas.

Starting out in a 5-0 hole after the Javelinas scored a run in the second and added four more in the bottom of the fifth, 

The Falcons answered the Kingsville four run inning with four runs of their own in the top of the sixth inning. Mitchell Hazlett got the teams first run on a single to right field that scored Andrew Donovan. Skyler Palermo and Dalton Drury fallowed with bases loaded walks, and a single to right by Andrew Wixson drove home Mike Fernandez to pull within 5-4.

Chris Ortega tied the game in the top of the seventh, hitting his third home run of the season and his second of the weekend series to even the contest at 5-5.

Christian Caudle won the game in the ninth for Kingsville, singling in a one-out run for the 6-5 lead.

Ortega and Donovan each ended the game with a pair of hits to pace the Falcon offense, and Donovan reached base three times with a walk.

Matt Symczak threw four innings with a pair of unearned runs allowed in relief on the afternoon, giving up three hits and three walks with a pair of strike outs.

The Falcons are back home for the final time next weekend, hosting Angelo State for a four-game Lone Star Conference slate Friday through Sunday.

 
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