TMU Baseball won the second game of Friday's and Saturday's doubleheaders against OUAZ, earning a Golden State Athletic Conference series split in Surprise, Arizona.
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The Mustangs had a chance to make it three wins out of four, but the Spirit won the opening game of the series on Friday, 6-5, after scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth.
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Evan Banks' two-run homer in the top of the third put Master's ahead by two before that lead was later extended to three in the top of the sixth after
Cason Brownell hit an RBI-triple and then scored on a wild pitch.
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OUAZ got one run back in the eighth before scoring three in the ninth, taking advantage of a pair of Mustang fielding errors.
Kameron Quitno (five innings, two runs, six strikeouts) was in line for the win until the Spirit completed its comeback.
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TMU responded by winning game two, 13-5, with eight of those runs coming in the top of the fourth. Holding a 4-2 lead,
Joe Terlizzi's three-run home run highlighted the Mustangs' eight-run inning, which tied the team's largest scoring output in a single inning this season.
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Banks hit another homer in the top of the fifth to round out TMU's scoring, which was more than enough run support for
Zachary Filos, who was charged with only one run over his five innings of work.
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Banks' RBI-triple sparked a two-run first inning for Master's in the third game of the series, but OUAZ responded with three runs in the bottom half and did not relinquish its lead the rest of the way before winning 10-5.
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The Mustangs ensured the series would end in a split with a 12-4 victory in the final game. Trailing 2-1, TMU scored a combined 11 runs over the final three innings, including five in the fifth. Banks had four separate run-scoring hits in the game, as he finished the series with eight hits, including three homers, and 11 RBIs.
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Zachary Jimenez earned the win on the mound, pitching 6.1 innings and giving up two earned runs.
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Master's (23-17 overall, 10-14 GSAC) returns home to take on San Diego Christian College on Friday and Saturday, with doubleheaders scheduled to start at 11 a.m. each day.