HILLSBORO, Ore. —
Josh Keithly drilled a two-out, walk-off single to right field in the bottom of the tenth inning to give Pacific an 8-7 baseball win over George Fox on Monday night at Ron Tonkin Field.
The victory moves Pacific's record to 2-1 on the season while George Fox lost for the first time in 2016, dropping to 3-1. The game was a part of the Oregon Northwest Conference Invitation tournament. Pacific will play one more game in the tournament tonight, taking on Lewis & Clark at 8 p.m.
Keithly's shot ended nearly four hours of baseball and wrapped up a Boxer comeback.
The Bruins took an early 4-0 lead in the second inning and pushed that margin to 6-1 in the top of the fifth. They never trailed the entire ball game until Keithly's game winner.
GFU led 6-2 until the Boxer seventh. Pacific scored four runs in that stanza on three hits, three walks and a hit batter.
Ryan Sohn's two-run single was the big blow of the inning.
In the tenth, the Bruins struck first after loading the bases on a base hit and two walks. Andrew Reichenbach then secured the go-ahead run after being hit by a pitch, putting George Fox up 7-6.
In the bottom half,
Dylan Wright got the rally going with a one-out single off Bruin reliever Tyler Hamilton. An error then set the table for a game-tying RBI base knock by
Walker Olis to tie the game at 7-7. One out later, Keithly ended the drama with a blast to right that would have gone for extra bases if needed.
Walker had four hits in the game (4-for-6) while Wright,
Charlie Dietrich and
Kane Ulrich had two hits apiece. Brandon Wileman and Jacob Woehler had three hits each for George Fox in a game where the two teams combined for 27 hits.
Joey Angyus got the win for the Boxers in relief, pitching three innings while giving up four hits and one run. Hamilton took the loss despite not giving up an earned run.