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Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. – Southwest Baptist junior shortstop Ross Wolfe hit a two-out double in the bottom of the ninth inning to help the Bearcats win the second game of a wild double header, 14-13, over Nebraska-Kearney Friday in Tishomingo, Okla.
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The Bearcats (4-6, 4-4) took the first game, 7-4, and won three of four in a series originally set for Bolivar, Mo., but moved to Murray State J.C. due to weather.
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UNK (9-6, 3-5) was poised to come back from an 8-2 hole as they scored two in the fifth, three in the sixth and four more in the seventh.
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In the sixth, Texas junior
Coby Roming (2 for 5) belted a two-run triple with Grand Island junior
Max Ayoub (2 for 3) blasting a three-run homer in the seventh. That inning began with the first collegiate dinger for Omaha freshman
Josh Kiger (2 for 6).
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However, SBU tied the game at 11 thanks to a three-run eighth. They used a walk and three hits, none bigger than a two-run single off the bat of Christian Binger (2 for 5, five RBI's).
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After UNK left the potential game winning run stranded at second, the Bearcat ninth featured a single by senior Bo Helsel (3 for 5, three runs) before Wolfe's big hit. From the nine hole, he finished 4 for 4 with three runs and two RBI's.
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For the Lopers, juniors
Danny Droll (Penrose, Colo.) and
Brandon Landanger (Kearney H.S.) each went 3 for 4 with Iowa senior
Logan Willard allowing only two earned over 3.1 eventful innings.
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In game one, junior starter Brady Greear threw a scoreless fourth and then two relievers blanked UNK for three more innings. SBU tallied four runs in the third thanks to a single by Binger and a three-run homer from Spencer Blacksher.
Later, Wolfe (3 for 3) added an RBI double.
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Gering senior Carolos Palomo threw 1.1 innings of scoreless relief with Landanger and sophomore
Anthony Pacheco (Kearney Catholic H.S.) each collecting two hits.
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UNK plays at Fort Hays State next weekend.