Six-run inning leads TMU Baseball over No. 23 Benedictine University Mesa

A six-run third inning proved to be all that TMU Baseball would need in a 9-4 win over No. 23 Benedictine University Mesa on Thursday night in the Coach Calderone Invitational.
 
Trailing 1-0 after two innings, Master's gave starting pitcher Zachary Filos plenty of run support in the top of the third. Will Batz hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game before Austin Young's groundout gave the Mustangs the lead.
 
Then with two outs, TMU added four more runs, three of which came off a bases-clearing triple by Joshua Lee. Brayden Luft's RBI-single rounded out the team's six-run inning.
 
An Evan Banks sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth put Master's ahead by six, before the Redhawks responded with two runs in the bottom of the fifth.
 
Run-scoring singles by Lee and Young in the top of the seventh and eighth respectively then restored TMU's six-run advantage.
 
Benedictine got one back in the bottom of the ninth, but it was too little too late, with Master's improving to 4-0 overall on the season after sweeping Providence Christian in a three-game series over the weekend.
 
Filos earned his second-straight win on the mound for the Mustangs, pitching six innings and giving up two earned runs, while striking out five. Ethan Schmidt pitched three innings without conceding an earned run to seal the victory.
 
Cason Brownell (3-for-5, two doubles) and Lee each had three hits apiece, while Banks, Miles Henderson and Corny Miller also recorded multiple hits each.
 
Master's returns to action on Friday against Oklahoma Panhandle State University. First pitch in Arizona is scheduled for 1 p.m. PST (2 p.m. local time).