Game Recap By Don Gilmore, TMU Assistant SID

The Master’s University baseball team’s extra time in Northern California ended in extra innings Monday.

When Will Law hit an 11th-inning home run, William Jessup walked off with an 11-10 victory in the second game of a doubleheader sweep.

The Warriors beat the Mustangs 3-0 in the opener after two days without baseball due to inclement weather. The teams split the first two games of the series Friday.

“Tough games,” said Mustang head coach Monte Brooks. “We need to play better in all phases to complete games. We’ve had amazing moments yet fall short in one area to be victorious.”

Dropping the final three games of the four-game series with Jessup, the Mustangs are now 9-7-1 overall and 2-4 in the GSAC.

After being stifled in the first game, the Mustang bats came alive in the nightcap in a seven-run second inning.

Aaron Shackelford‘s three-run homer was the big hit of the inning in which Will Batz, Max Maitland, and Kameron Quitno also drove in runs.

Jessup answered with three runs in the last half of the frame and added three more in the fourth to pull within one.

The Warriors tied it in the sixth with a run and the game eventually went to extra innings.

It stayed knotted at seven-all until the 10th when the Mustangs snapped a seven-inning scoreless streak with three runs.

Shackelford (2-for-6, four RBI) led off the frame with his club-leading 10th homer of the season; Roy Verdejo (2-for-5) made it 9-7 with an RBI single, then scored on Nick Tuttle‘s triple.

Much to the Mustangs’ chagrin, the three-run lead dissolved in the last half of the frame when the Warriors used a two-run triple and a sacrifice fly to knot the game again.

That led to Law’s heroics in the 11th inning.

In the opener, Jessup starter Micah Gunter five-hit the Mustangs over seven innings of work and his teammates gave him all the runs he needed with one in the second inning and two more in the fifth.

The Mustangs managed to get runners in scoring position just three times and couldn’t get the big hit to break through, getting shut out for the first time in 2019.

Starter Eric Williams, who struck out five over five innings, fell to 1-2.

Here are the box scores for Game 1 and Game 2.

Returning to Southern California, the Mustangs hope for better weather and results this weekend when they host first-place Vanguard in a four-game series.

The Lions are 9-1 in conference play.

Friday’s first pitch at Lou Herwaldt Stadium will be thrown at 11:30 a.m.