SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara baseball lost a big early lead and late one-run lead but walked it off on a Coleman Brigman home run in the bottom of the ninth to beat San Jose State 12-9.
After Dalton Bowling tied the game with a solo home run in the top of the ninth, the Broncos (12-7) got the winning run on with a one out walk. After the second out was recorded, Michael O'Hara worked a seven-pitch walk to bring Brigman to the plate and setup the deep blast over the left field wall.
Brigman finished the night with four RBIs and two runs scored and O'Hara scored twice while knocking in a run with a hit and a pair of walks.
Both offenses pushed across plenty of runs but did it in different ways. Santa Clara had just seven hits, taking advantage of 12 walks, five wild pitches, and three Spartan (12-9) errors. San Jose State on the other hand, collected 14 hits and took just two walks.
Santa Clara used a seven-run third to take control of the game but the Spartans came back with eight unanswered runs, four in each of the fourth and fifth innings, to take the lead. Santa Clara would tie the game in the home half of the fifth and retake the lead in the seventh on a bases loaded walk to O'Hara before San Jose State got the blast from Bowling.
Bowling ended the night 2-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored. Kimo Fukofuka also added a two-run home run and four others had an RBI each.
The big third featured three walks, two errors, and a wild pitch by San Jose State with Santa Clara taking advantage with back-to-back RBI doubles by Eammon Lance and John Hanley and an inning-capping two run home run by JonJon Berring.
Stare Nick Sando was effective and tossed 3 shutout innings while allowing a hit with four strikeouts but the bullpen gave up the lead. After the game was tied in the fifth, Skylar Hales (2-2) came in and brought some calm. He couldn't strand the go ahead run but ended up tossing the final 4 2/3 innings to get the win. He allowed just the home run, three hits, two walks, with a career-high 10 strikeouts.
Joey Cammarata (2-1) got hung with the loss in 1 2/3 innings out of the bullpen. He allowed just one hit but walked four and struck out three.
Starter Micky Thompson lasted 3 innings. He allowed seven runs, just one earned, on four hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
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