Stephen F. Austin
Houston Baptist
Huskies Sting Lumberjacks In 13 Innings
2/25/2012 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 25, 2012
ARLINGTON, Texas - Houston Baptist's Bradley Brown dropped down a squeeze bunt to score David Pfuntner from third base in the bottom of the 13th inning to give the Huskies a 6-5 win over Stephen F. Austin on Saturday at the UTA Invitational at Clay Gould Ballpark.
SFA (1-6) had a pair of chances to close out the Huskies, in both the ninth and 12th innings, but HBU (?-?) was able scrap back each time and eventually squeezed out its first win over the Lumberjacks since the 1993 season.
Justin Choate, the fifth SFA pitcher of the day fell to 0-2 for the year, allowing a run apiece in both the 12th and 13th innings, after inheriting a 5-4 lead in the 12th inning. Curtis Jones pitched a scoreless 13th inning to earn the win for the Huskies.
It looked as though the game was SFA's to take after Freddy Villalobos' two-run single in the top of the ninth inning completed a three-run rally for the Lumberjacks, but HBU managed to get to SFA stopper Alex Moshier for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to extend the game.
The `Jacks had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the 12th when Jordon Lenaburg scored Zach Benson from third base with a sacrifice fly, but HBU got the leadoff runner on in the bottom half of the inning thanks to a Lumberjack error and Brown followed that up with a double into the gap that quickly knotted the game at 5-5.
One inning later it was leadoff man Pfuntner who got it going for the Huskies with a leadoff double, and after a sacrifice bunt and intentional walk, Brown picked up his third hit and drove in his third run of the day when he dropped down a bunt single on the first pitch of the at-bat for the walk-off win.
SFA had trailed the Huskies 2-1 entering the ninth, mustering just a pair of singles off of HBU starter Tyler Hoelscher in the first eight innings, but coupled a pair of singles from Villalobos and Jarid Scarafiotti with two Husky errors to complete the rally.
The Lumberjacks will next get a shot at a conference foe, UT Arlington, on Sunday in the Invitational finale.
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