AUSTIN, Texas – With their season on the line and needing a win to play a winner-take-all game on Saturday, the LeTourneau University baseball would force extra-innings with a ninth-inning RBI single before falling by a final score of 5-1 to Concordia Texas in the 2019 American Southwest Conference Tournament Gold Bracket Championship Series hosted at Tornado Field in Austin, Texas on Friday, May 10th.
 
LETU sees their 2019 season end after a run in the ASC Tournament as the number eight seed and a 24-21 overall record while the Tornadoes earn the ASC's automatic berth into next week's NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament with a 34-10 record.
 
It would be leadoff single in the top of the first for CTX that came around to score on a sacrifice fly and give the Tornadoes an early lead. LETU The YellowJackets would not see their first base runner until the bottom of the third as Noah Mahoney and Eli Birriel would both draw walks to put runners on first and second with two outs, but a strikeout would end the inning as LETU would be unable to push a run across.
 
Just two total base runners would be seen in the fourth and fifth innings to leave things at a 1-0 game going to the sixth when Concordia would put two runners on to force a LeTourneau pitching change before seeing a flyout end the inning without any damage done. LETU would then see Will Bradshaw draw a one-out walk in the bottom of the seventh but get thrown out at second on a stolen base attempt as an elusive first run was still being searched for by the YellowJackets.
 
Neither team would score in the eighth before the Tornadoes would strand a one-out single in the top of the ninth which would give LeTourneau one final chance to try and tie things up at 1-1. In the bottom of the inning, it would be Brandon Ramirez who would break up the no-hitter with a leadoff double down the right field line before a Bryce Brueggemeyer infield single put runners on first and third with no outs. A stolen bae for pinch runner Mark Sanders moved the game-winning run into scoring position, but Concordia would manage to flip momentum with a strikeout followed by picking off the runner at third on a failed squeeze play. Despite all the wild action, Kyle Guevara would remain steady at the plate and drive the next pitch he saw into the outfield turf to score Sanders from second a tie the game to force extra-innings.
 
In the extra frame, Concordia would use three hits and a walk to push across four runs and reclaim the lead at 5-1 which would prove to hold and be the final score to clinch an ASC Tournament title.
 
Pitching would keep the YellowJackets in the game throughout as starter Jared Schurig and reliever Ryder Lognion would scatter seven hits by the Tornadoes through regulation while allowing just one run to score in the top of the first inning. The duo would combine to strike out nine and keep the YellowJackets within striking distance the entire game which eventually allowed LETU to force extra-innings. The three hits for LeTourneau would all come in the bottom of the ninth as Guevara would deliver the lone run of the contest for the YellowJackets on a two-out RBI single to tie things.