PHOENIX, Ariz. –The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley baseball team scored all of its runs in the seventh and eighth innings to tie the game before falling to Grand Canyon University (GCU) 5-4 in 10 innings on Saturday at Brazell Stadium.
 
Down 3-0 after six, UTRGV got its second hit of the game with one out in the seventh when junior Ivan Estrella doubled. One out later, freshman Tyler Torres singled to left to bring UTRGV (21-21, 4-10 WAC) within 3-1.
 
After GCU (18-19, 12-2 WAC) got that run back in the bottom of the inning, senior Joseph Collazo hit a two-run single and sophomore Anthony Gomez reached on an error to tie the game in the eighth.
 
That was it until the 10^th, when Griffin Barnes led off with a double against graduate student Connor Grant (5-5). After a sacrifice bunt moved the winning run to third base, UTRGV intentionally walked Austin Bull before Tom Lerouge hit a walk-off single.
 
That made a winner of Bobby Milacki (1-2), who struck out two in a hitless 10^th.
 
After senior Andrew Garcia struck out three over two scoreless innings to start the game, GCU loaded the bases with one out in the third, setting up an Ian Evans sacrifice fly and a two-run single by Garrison Schwartz to make it 3-0.
 
Schwartz came up with another run-scoring single in the seventh en route to finishing 3-for-4 with a walk.
 
Sophomore Conrad McMahon had a multi-hit game for UTRGV, going 2-for-5 with a run scored.
 
UTRGV and GCU close out this three-game series on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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