HENDERSON, Nev. - The College of Southern Idaho won three games on walk-off hits to finish the weekend 3-1 and improve to 3-5 overall.
The Golden Eagles opened the weekend Friday with a win against Cochise 11-10 and then fell to top-ranked Yavapai 12-2. CSI rebounded with a 5-4 win over Okanagan Saturday and a 2-1 win over South Mountain Sunday.
CSI headed into the ninth inning with Cochise tied at 8. But Cochise put two runs on the board with a 2-run home run. That's when the Eagles answered.
Daniel Nist led off the inning with a walk. After a CSI strikeout, Jordan came up with the pinch hit single followed by a pinch hit single by
Kelton Christensen. The Golden Eagles tied the game on a
Travis Bohall double before
Justin Mannens walked to load the bases for the walk-off sacrifice fly delivered by
Trevor Lippard.
Bohall ended the game 3-for-5 with two RBI.
After falling to Yavapai, CSI put together two more exciting finishes.
The Golden Eagles watched Okanagan put four runs on the board the top of the fourth but answered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning and tied it up in the bottom of the fifth, setting up the late game heroics by Bohall.
CSI led off the bottom of the ninth with a
Brett Resch walk followed by a strikeout and a
Colin Gordon walk. With one-out Bohall roped a double to bring in Resch and win the game.
Tyler Rosas earned the win on the mound, pitching the final 4.1 innings and giving up no runs on four hits with two strikeouts.
Against South Mountain, neither team could find much offense. South Mountain scored in the top of the first and that would be their only run. CSI tied it up in the sixth. The Golden Eagles led off the bottom of the ninth with a strikeout before
Blake Sanchez singled and
Jordan Freese came through with the pinch-hit rbi triple for the win.
Mason Foltz earned the win, going 4.2 innings and giving up no runs on two hits with two strikeouts.
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