ODESSA, Texas - A late rally by the University of Texas Permian Basin baseball team led them to a 6-5 walk-off win over West Texas A&M in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday at Roden Field. The Falcons would fall 13-4 in the second game of the day.
 
Jaden Wilcox was brilliant in relief in the win, throwing 6.0 shutout innings and striking out five to allow the Falcons to come back for the win. 
 
The Buffs scored first in game one for the early lead, but the Falcons responded in the second. UTPB put runners on second and third when a ground ball by Victor Perez brought in Gibrian Pena to tie the score.
 
The teams traded runs in the third with Pena's RBI single, bringing home Mason Hamlin, to make it 2-2. West Texas A&M plated three in the fifth to take the lead before UTPB battled back. 
 
Ethan Flodstrom's double in the fifth made it a two-run game and it stayed that way heading into the seventh. Hamlin singled home a run in the seventh and an intentional walk loaded the bases with nobody out. Carson Johnson hit into a double play but plated a run to send the game to extra innings.
 
The score stayed there until the ninth when back-to-back hit batters put a pair of Falcons on. Payton Matthews ended the game with a single, scoring Pena, and securing the 6-5 win.
 
The Buffs put away game two of the day early, with three runs in the first and another three in the second inning. Taylor McDaniel drove in a run with a single in the second, Pena's sac fly brought home a run in the third, and Perez doubled home a run in the sixth, but the Falcons couldn't slow down the Buff offense.
 
UTPB and West Texas A&M wrap up a four-game set tomorrow at Roden Field with first pitch slated for noon.