UTB-TSC News: Unearned runs help Doane edge Scorpions

Doane College (Neb.) scored three unearned runs in the sixth inning and held on for a 3-2 win over the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College on Friday night at Scorpion Field.

The win left both teams with 1-1 records two games into the young season. They will wrap up their four-game series with a doubleheader at noon today. Both games will be seven innings.

With the Scorpions nursing a 1-0 lead after five innings, Doane finally scored its first runs of the season after 15 innings of shutout ball from the Scorpions. UTB-TSC won Thursday’s season opener 1-0.

An infield error, walk, and single made it 1-1, and a two-out double boosted Doane’s lead to 3-1.

Walks to Zach Cordia and Peter Maldonado preceded a sacrifice bunt and Matt Ginn‘s sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 3-2 in the seventh. The Scorpions threatened in the final two innings but could not push across the tying run.

UTB-TSC scored the first run of the game in the first inning on a single by Cordia and a double by K.J. Semien.

Marcos de Leon was the hard-luck pitcher for the Scorpions. He went six innings and walked one. He allowed six hits and no earned runs. Matt Leffler pitched three scoreless innings in relief.

UTB-TSC left 13 runners stranded on base.