LONGVIEW, Texas -- Another walk-off home run for Dane Jones, this one was a no-doubter grand slam to finish the 10th inning and secure a 9-6 win for the LeTourneau baseball team over Lyon on Tuesday night.
It was the first walk-off grand slam for the LeTourneau baseball program in the NCAA era (since 1999)Â and the first extra inning walk-off home run since March 30th, 2018.
Lyon (4-12) took a lead in the 10th inning when Garrett Graef led off with a single and was worked around by Ashton Compton who put the ball in play. Graef took advantage of a couple of errors to make it home and give the Scots a 6-5 lead.
LeTourneau (8-11) did not take long to answer back. Carter Amarantos led off with a double down the third base line.
Jonah McDaniel put one over the shortstop's head and down for a base hit. Then Ethan Wood walked to juice the bases.
Zach Zarko ran the count full before he popped out in foul territory the the basemen only to bring up Dane Jones with two outs.
Dane Jones took the first pitch and shot it over the field house in left field for a walk-off grand slam. His second walk-off in three days as he hit one against Concordia on Sunday in the bottom of the ninth.
The YellowJackets took an early lead taking advantage of three separate errors with two runs being scored in the first and another in the third inning to make it 3-0.
Lyon responded in the top of the fifth scoring on a a pair of wild pitches after the bases were loaded by a hit from Graef, an Ashton Compton walk, and a Braden Hendrix hit by pitch. This made it 3-2 with the hosts still ahead.
Amarantos added some insurance with a double out to left field which brought in Devin Greaff and Dane Jones. Amarantos tried to stretch the double into a triple and was thrown out at third to end the inning.
Lyon would tie it up in the sixth inning scoring three runs on four hits. Before going three scoreless innings to force the extra frame.
Dylan Cortes (2-0) got his second win of the week. He went 1.0 innings, allowed one hit, one run, and marked three strikeouts.
Riley Davis started the game on the mound for LeTourneau and went three innings. He allowed just one hit and got four strikeouts.
The YellowJacket Pitching staff as a whole tallied 14 Ks by the end of the day.
Lane Holman accounted for three in his 1.1 innings pitched.
TJ Spitdowski went for 2.0 innings and got two Ks to his name.
Blair Francis (0-2) was credited with the loss for the Scots. He went 4.2 innings in relief, allowed five hits, four earned runs, and got two strikeouts.
UP NEXT
LeTourneau will travel to Brownwood to face Howard Payne on Friday (2 p.m.).
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