Kearney, Neb. – The 14th-ranked New Mexico Highlands baseball team scored three runs after two were out in the seventh inning to beat Nebraska-Kearney, 6-4, in a RMAC Tournament winners bracket game at a very windy Memorial Field Friday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, UNK (36-17) won a suspended game with Mesa State, 2-1. The Lopers will play again Saturday at noon against the winner of Colorado State-Pueblo and Mesa, which began Friday at 4:45 p.m.

Highlands is now 3-0 in the tournament and one of the three remaining teams will have to beat them twice on Saturday, and once on Sunday, to win the title.

The championship game will be held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. If Highlands were to lose that game, a second title contest will be played Sunday at a time TBA.

UNK, which is now 1-4 against the Cowboys at Memorial this year, grabbed a 4-3 lead in the top of the seventh when junior 1b Andrew Haake (2 for 4) hit an RBI single to right.

The lead was short lived, however, as nine-hole hitter Justin Kaid led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. With two outs, UNK intentionally walked RMAC Player of the Year Jason Carr (1 for 1, three runs), who hit his seventh homer at Memorial Field this year to start the third.

Right fielder Danny Brown (2 for 4) followed Carr with a shot to right that tore off the glove of Haake and brought home Kaid. Two more singles and the 'Pokes were ahead by two.

Fittingly, Highlands turned a double play in the ninth, its fourth of the game, to stop a Loper rally. Overall, UNK out hit the Cowboys by one, 10-9, but left 10 on base.

Junior 2b Jordan Mitchelhill (2 for 3) and senior SS Blake Cover (2 for 4) joined Haake as Lopers to have multi-hit games. Junior DH Mike Stamp (Persia, Ia.) likely would've had two homers, in addition to a single, but his shots to left were turned into routine fly balls by the wind.

In the Mesa game, the Lopers stranded 11 but junior catcher Felix Segovia (Las Vegas, Nev.) hit a wind aided homer with one out in the eighth to provide the winnning margin.

Junior Ricky Muir (Easton, Conn.) got two K's and a pop up to keep the tying run at third in the ninth to earn his ninth save. Muir was allowed to save the game as junior Austin Parker (Brighton, Colo.) got a 4-6-3 double play in the eighth to get out of one out, bases loaded situation.