Will Davis’ double down the left field line with no outs in the last half of the 14th inning scored Lee Mutter with the winning run as Hope International walked off with a 2-1 victory over The Master’s University in the second game of a GSAC-opening doubleheader Saturday evening in Orange County.

Paired with a 4-3 victory in the opener, the Royals swept the Mustangs, who fell to 5-6 overall and 0-2 in the GSAC.

Davis’ game-winning hit came off Mustang reliever Danny Lutz (0-1) and snapped six innings of scoreless baseball between the two clubs after the Royals had tied the contest with a run in the bottom of the seventh, which is the typical length of a GSAC nightcap.

That tying run came off TMU ace Jason Karkenny, who had blanked the Royals on five hits through the first six frames. Entering the last of the seventh on the cusp of winning a program-record 32nd career game, the senior righthander surrendered two singles and a bases-loaded sacrifice fly that evened the game at 1-1.

Karkenny worked one more inning and finished with eight strikeouts while allowing six hits en route to a no-decision. His teammates left the bases loaded in the 11th inning and stranded runners in scoring position in the 13th and 14th innings, respectively.

The Mustangs scored their lone run of the nightcap in the top of the first inning when Aaron Shackelford laced a leadoff single to center field, advanced to second base on Max Maitland’s infield single, moved to third on a flyout, and raced home on Scott Savage’s sacrifice fly to center field.

Maitland’s four-hit (4-7) game paced the club’s 12-hit attack in the nightcap while Shackelford and senior transfer Dalton deVries had two hits apiece.

As they have during the first quarter of the season, the Mustangs struggled at the plate in the opener, collecting just five hits in the one-run loss.

Two of those were of the long-ball variety. Michael Sexton swatted his second homer of the year, a two-out, solo shot to right field in the top of the first and an inning later, deVries made it a 2-0 game with his first home run in a Mustang uniform, a solo blast to right field, too.

That lead held up through the first four innings as senior Aaron Alexander blanked the Royals on one hit in that span. He stifled a bases-loaded threat in the second but wasn’t so fortunate in the fifth when Hope used two singles and a Mustang error to tie the game and run Alexander.

The Mustangs broke the deadlock in the seventh when Scott Savage roped a leadoff double down the left field line, courtesy runner Ricky Sottile moved to third base on Matt Janes’s single, and scored on deVries’ fielder’s choice.

That advantage lasted all of half an inning as the Royals struck back in the last half of the frame, taking the lead off Mustang reliever Nate Bonsell (2-2) on a two-run homer from Brandon Gonzalez.

Trailing 4-3 going to the eighth, the Mustangs put runners at first and second with one out before a flyout and a lineout ended the threat. They went 1-2-3 in the ninth.

The Mustangs and Royals will get together on Monday (the scheduled game on Friday was moved because of inclement conditions) to complete the three-game series.