San Marcos, Texas - Texas State-San Marcos (17-15) rallied from an early deficit to defeat Texas-Pan American (14-21) 6-5 in 11 innings, Tuesday evening. The Bobcats and Broncs will play again tomorrow with the game scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m.

Texas-Pan American got on the scoreboard in its first at-bat. Louie Alamia (So./Edinburg, Texas/Edinburg North HS) drew a walk to reach base safely for the 46^th consecutive game. Alamia moved to second on a wild pitch and stayed there as Marco Garza (Jr./Mission, Texas/Sharyland HS) was walked. Tony Ortiz (Jr./Fort Worth, Texas/Nolan HS) ripped a double to left field to score Alamia and move Garza to third. Following a strike out, Ryan Grimet (Fr./Pearland, Texas/Pearland HS) walked to load the bases. The shortstop mishandled a ground ball hit by Ben DiOrio (Sr./Canon City, Colo./Seward County CC), which allowed Garza to score.

Texas-State San Marcos would get a run in the bottom of the second. The Broncs came right back in the third inning. Ortiz led off with a single to right field. A fielder's choice got Ortiz out at second and allowed Phillip Rodriguez (Fr./Edinburg, Texas/Edinburg North HS) to reach first. Two consecutive wild pitches put Rodriguez in scoring position. Grimet walked for the second time to put runners at the corners. DiOrio was thrown out at first on a grounder that moved Grimet to second and pushed Rodriguez across the plate. The Bobcats then threw two straight wild pitches to score Grimet and make it 4-1 UTPA.

In the bottom of the fifth, Doug Pearce led off by getting hit by a pitch. A double to left center from Patrick Crumpton scored Pearce. Nolan Mast singled through the left side to move Crumpton to third, who then came home on a sacrifice fly from Kyle Anson to make it 4-3.

In the eighth inning Ortiz led off with a single to center field and moved to second on a ground out. Following a strike out, DiOrio singled to center field to score Ortiz to put the Broncs up 5-3. In the bottom of the eighth, Anson led off with a double to right center. A sacrifice bunt moved Anson to third. Matt Miller tied the game with a two-run home run.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Bobcats threatened as they had one out and a runner on first. Ricky Broyles (Jr./Longview, Texas/Northeast Texas CC) came in to pitch and got a ground out and a strike out to send the game into extra innings. In the bottom of the 11^th, Dominic Ramos drew a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Crumpton singled to center field to score Ramos to end the game.

For UTPA, Ortiz was 3-for-5, had a double, scored a run and drove in a run, DiOrio drove in three runs and John Lopez (Jr./Mission, Texas/Mission HS) was 2-for-4. Broyles gave up two hits, one run and struck out three batters in two innings as he fell to 0-3.

For Texas State-San Marcos, Anson was 2-for-4, Mark Cooper was 2-for-5 and Crumpton was 2-for-5 and drove in two runs. Michael Gultz gave up one hit and struck out one batter in three innings to improve to 3-0.

"We had great chances to score a lot of runs early and didn't," said Head Coach Willie Gawlik. "We pitched well enough to win tonight, we just didn't score. Texas State-San Marcos had a bunch of bang-bang plays defensively that hurt us. Ricky came into a tough situation with one on and one out in the ninth. Getting the next two batters out kept us in the game."