CALDWELL, Idaho – College of Idaho rallied from a 7-run deficit in the late innings, bringing the winning run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, but British Columbia coaxed a ground out to end the contest, picking up a 7-5 win to complete a 4-game sweep of the Coyotes at Wolfe Field.
UBC (18-11, 13-3 NAIA West) took advantage of four Coyote errors to build a 7-0 lead in the fifth inning – including an RBI single and RBI double from Jaxon Valcke and RBI singles from Nolan Weger and Wyatt Schnorr.
The Yotes (13-22, 7-9) got on the board in the sixth as
Matthew Clay doubled and scored on an
Austin Van Horne ground out and made things interesting in the eighth.
Weston Miller cut the margin to 7-2 with an RBI single before
Caden Jensen cleared the bases with a double off the left field wall to pull the C of I within two runs.
In the ninth,
Keaton Elledge led off the inning by being hit by a pitch. Two outs later,
Jake Bowman reached on an error before Miller, representing the winning run, grounded out to second to end the contest.
James Bradwell allowed just two hits and struck out eight to earn the win, with Pat Van Den Brink getting the final three outs for the save.
Jensen went 2-for-2 off the bench for the Yotes, with reliever
Nathan Pena working a season-high four and two-thirds innings of shutout relief, striking out four.
The Yotes hit the road for their next eight games, beginning next Saturday at Oregon Tech.
