MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (April 6, 2019) – The No. 25 Webber International University baseball team broke a 7-7 tie in the top of the 12th inning with two unearned runs to win the series finale and avoid the three-game sweep at No. 10 St. Thomas University, winning game two of Saturday's doubleheader 9-7 after dropping game one 5-1.

The winning runs for the Warriors in the 12th inning came after Carlo Mancillas led off the frame with a single through the left side and Rougie Odor followed with a sacrifice bunt to move him into scoring position. From there, Mancillas scored an unearned run on a passed ball and a throwing error by the Bobcats' catcher as Nolan Soliveres struck out swinging but drew the wild throw at first base and ended up at second. Soliveres then came in to score himself thanks to an RBI-single to second base by Garrett Martin with two outs.

In the bottom of the 12th, Gerig Blackman (6-0) shutdown the opposition 1-2-3 with a strikeout looking, a fly out to left field and a fly out to center. In all, Blackman pitched the final four innings not allowing a single batter to reach base against him.

After St. Thomas tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and had two runners on with nobody out, Blackman came in and worked out of the jam with a fly ball to center, a strikeout looking and a fly out to right. He then shut down the Bobcats with a fly out to left and two groundouts to shortstop in the 10th and had a fly out to center, a groundout to second and a fly out to right in the 11th.

It was the second extra-inning win in two tries for the Warriors this season, both of which have lasted 12 innings.

Earlier in the game, Webber trailed 6-1 after a five-run bottom of the fourth inning for St. Thomas that was capped off by a three-run homer. However, the Warriors began to chip away and got two runs back in the top of the fifth as Willie Carter reached on an error with two outs, and the Warriors took advantage of the mistake as Marcus Begg hit a two-run homer to left to make it 6-3.

Webber then got within two runs of the Bobcats in the top of the seventh as Martin singled through the left side with one out and then stole both second and third base before coming in on a double to right field by Norberto Navarro.

Then in the eighth, Webber put together the rally it had been waiting for all weekend as Mancillas led off with a double to left field before Odor followed with a single to second and Soliveres brought in Mancillas with a double to right center. Odor then scored on a groundout by Cristian Rivera for the first out of the inning to tie it, and then after a pop out by Martin, the Warriors took the lead as the pinch runner for Soliveres, Hunter Jones, came across on a wild pitch as the Bobcats got a taste of their own medicine from the first game of the day.

Begg and Mancillas both finished 3-for-6 in the series finale while Odor and Soliveres both added two hits as well. Soliveres had two doubles and matched Begg with two RBI's while Odor matched Mancillas with two runs scored. Pitching wise, the Warriors did not give up a single earned run as Doug Pearl (7 hits, 6 runs, 2 walks), John Shutrump (3 hits, 1 run, 0 walks) and Blackman (0 hits, 0 runs, 0 walks) each pitched four innings.

"It was a tough weekend for the Warriors, but we are glad to pull that last game out," spoke Webber's Head Baseball Coach Brad Niethammer. "Shu [Shutrump] and Gerig [Blackman] did a good job giving us a chance to win. We are back at it next week to get better."

In game one on Saturday, the Warriors were held to only five hits while the Bobcats scored five runs on only three hits themselves. St. Thomas scored twice in the second on a two-out, two run home run and then added two more runs in the third after the inning started with back-to-back hit by pitches. The Bobcats' run in the seventh then came only after two more hit by pitches and a wild pitch to score the runner from third as the Warriors continued to hurt their own cause.

Webber, just like in the series opener on Friday, did not get on the scoreboard until the eighth inning as a two-out single to right field by Begg scored Martin. Quirino Esquivel then followed Begg with a walk to load the bases, but a fly out to center field ended the potential rally in its tracks; and then in the ninth, the Warriors went down 1-2-3 on a swinging strikeout, a groundout to third and another swinging strikeout.

Webber is now 27-15 overall on the season and is 9-9 in The Sun Conference while St. Thomas moved to 31-11 overall and 13-5 in the league.

Saturday's action represented the final two conference games on the road this season for Webber as the Warriors will return home, where they are 5-1 in Sun Conference games so far. Webber will return to the Heart of Florida Baseball Field for a nonconference doubleheader with Florida National University at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, before turning its attention back to conference play with a series against the University of South Carolina Beaufort next weekend.