BETHANY, Okla. - Kansas Wesleyan University Baseball headed south this week to face the Southwestern Christian University Eagles at Dolese Park on the campus of SCU. The Coyotes and Eagles duked it out in a marathon of the ball game that went 12 innings with SCU prevailing 8-7.
KWU came out the gate swinging in the top of the first. The Coyotes capitalized by scoring 3 runs off of a double to right center by Carter Allen that scored Fernando Ruvalcaba and Tyler Favretto. Followed by Joe Finder's single down the left field line to score Allen. The Coyotes sent Davin Hinote to the hill for KWU. SCU would get one back in the bottom of the first with a single to make it 3-1 after the first.
KWU cashed in a single run the second inning off of pure speed coupled with some sloppy throws. First the Coyotes with Tyler Favretto reached and went to second on a wild pitch, to third on bad throw and then scored on another errant throw.
SCU had the Coyotes sweating for a moment with bases loaded and scoring one run in the bottom of the inning off of a fielder's choice from a SAC bunt bringing the score to 4-2 after two innings.
The two teams sat at a stand still for the next four innings with good pitching and clean defense keeping things at 4-2. KWU was able to get one run in the 6th after a Eagles error and a Coyotes RBI. The Eagles would then rally back in the 6th after racking up four unearned runs making the score 5-4. KWU scraped to get one more in the 7th after Michael Rago scored of a fielder's choice RBI by Joe Finder to make it 6-4 Coyotes. The Eagles would did not go anywhere though; scoring two runs in the 8th inning after a RBI and steal to second and delay go from the runner on third to tie things up 6-6.
Both teams kept each other at six each until the Coyotes were able to crack one all the way in the top of the 12th. Jacob Williamson roped one down the right field line that he legged out for a triple that would score teammate Blake Dale to make it 7-6 Coyotes.
The Eagles would go on to take advantage of some Coyotes mistakes with a hit by pitch, and a wild pitch to let the runner get to second, a walk, and then a error on a ground ball, letting the tying run score then an errant throw to home to score the game winning run. The Coyotes would drop the thriller to the Eagles.