HALLSVILLE, Texas -- Dane Jones hit a solo-shot home run to walk off the series finale against Concordia after the LeTourneau baseball team dropped game one of the doubleheader on Sunday afternoon.

Concordia (9-10, 2-7 ASC) took the first game off LeTourneau (7-11, 2-4 ASC) 6-1. The YellowJackets answered in game two scoring six runs in the first inning and eventually walked it off with a final score of 9-8.

The two games were originally scheduled in Longview on Saturday, but due to poor field conditions, the games were moved to Hallsville High School and played on turf on Sunday.

GAME TWO: LeTourneau 9, Concordia 8

Concordia tied the game up in the top of the 9th after trailing for eight innings and two outs as Julian Swift hit a triple out to left field off the fence to score Zach Seigrist.

Dane Jones came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with one out and watched the first two pitches go outside. Then on the 2-0 count, he muscled it over the fence in left-center field to end the game.
  The home run marks number 10 on the year for the senior.

The LeTourneau bats were rolling in the first inning as Zach Zarko got on with a walk, Dane Jones with a hit, and Hayden Norris brought in the first run with his RBI single to left field.

Blake Vice then drew a hit by pitch, before Dane Jones came home on a throwing error on a failed pickoff attempt to make it 2-0.

Xander Nabors hit a sacrifice fly in deep center field, plating Norris.

Carlos Flores Jr. kept things going as he singled to left field. 

Ethan Wood was walked on a full count before Jake Lancaster would come in to relieve David Matthews of his pitching duties.

Tyler Hedin was walked on a 3-1 count to mark an RBI to his name as the bases were loaded.

Zarko got back to the plate and brought in two more on his single to right field, but Hedin was thrown out at home to end the inning after 10 YellowJacket batters came to the plate in the first frame with a Jacket lead of 6-0.

Concordia would start to eat away at the lead in the top of the third inning as they scored two runs on two hits and an error.

The bases were loaded with one out before Swift grounded into a double play to Hedin at third base who threw to Wood at second and to Norris at first to end the inning with minimal damage.

LeTourneau would answer right back as Carter Amarantos singled to left field allowing an RBI double from Nabors to bring him home. 

Wood followed that later with an RBI single of his own to make it 8-2 after Nabors touched home plate.

The Tornados then put together a few innings taking advantage of some errors. They scored three runs in the top of the fourth on two hits and an error and two runs in the fifth on three hits and one error.

The game saw three scoreless frames as Mason Brandenberger (0-1) and Camden Miller were both dealing from the mound for their perspective teams. 

Brandenberger went 5.1 innings after coming into the game in the fourth and allowed one earned run, six hits, and got one strikeout for the Tornados.

Miller went three innings for the YellowJackets, he allowed just one hit and got a strikeout.

Cruz Cox then came in relief for the YellowJackets and went 1.2 innings with a pair of strikeouts before Dylan Cortes would get the last out on a grounder to Devin Greaff who was in at shortstop.

GAME ONE: Concordia 6, LeTourneau 1

Concordia struck first in the opening inning and never trailed as the visiting Tornados took Sunday's first game by a 6-1 final.

Jaggar Vaughn and Ben Jones each had two hits for LeTourneau as the YellowJackets totaled seven in the loss.

Concordia scored in the first inning on Brandon Goynes' sacrifice fly and added a run in the fourth to go ahead 2-0. LeTourneau cut the margin in half in the fourth on Jones' two-out, RBI single down the left field line that scored Hayden Norris.

The Tornados answered with two runs in the fifth and single runs in the sixth and seventh innings to pull away for the victory.

Ryan Brewer (1-1) went a season-long six innings in his start for LeTourneau. Brewer allowed just one earned run while striking out four. 

Otto Franz (2-2) picked up the complete-game win for Concordia. Julian Swift and Colby Christian had two hits apiece as the Tornados had eight.

UP NEXT

LeTourneau returns home for a midweek game on Tuesday against Lyon (6 p.m.).

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