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SAN MARCOS, Texas – Daylan Pena delivered a two-out walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to lift No. 17 Texas State to an 11-10 win over the University of South Alabama baseball team Saturday at Bobcat Ballpark. 

Texas State (34-10, 17-3 SBC) loaded the bases on a one-out single by Ben McClain, intentional walk to Justin Thompson with two outs and a walk by John Wuthrich. Pena worked the count full before delivering the game-winning hit on the 10th pitch of the at-bat. The Bobcats clinched the three-game series with the win.

UP NEXT
South Alabama (23-18, 9-11 SBC) will return to action Sunday when it faces Texas State at 11 a.m. in the series finale at Bobcat Ballpark.

GAME FACTS
- Texas State took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a two-run home run to right-center field by Thompson.
- South Alabama cut the Bobcat lead in half at 2-1 in the top of the second when Joseph Sullivan lifted a 1-1 pitch from Texas State right-hander Levi Wells over the left-center field wall.
- Texas State took a 6-1 lead in the bottom of the second on a two-out grand slam by Dalton Shuffield.
- USA cut the Bobcat lead to 6-2 in the top of the fourth on a leadoff solo home run to left-center field by Hunter Stokes.
- The Bobcats loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the fifth on a leadoff single by Thompson, and consecutive walks by Wuthrich and Pena. Wesley Faison followed with an RBI walk for a 7-2 advantage. A sacrifice fly by Cameron Gibbons later in the inning gave Texas State an 8-2 advantage. Isaiah Ortega-Jones followed with a two-out, two-run single to center field for a 10-2 lead.
- The Jags cut the Bobcat lead to 10-3 in the top of the sixth on a leadoff solo home run to right field by Stokes.
- South Alabama cut the TXST lead to 10-4 in the top of the seventh on an RBI infield single by Will Turner that scored Carter Sanford, who led of the inning with a single to center field. Pinch-hitter Charles Middleton reached on a throwing error by Thompson on a grounder to third that allowed Brandon Auerbach, who reached on a single earlier in the inning, to score and cut the Bobcat lead in half at 10-5.
- The Jags cut the TXST lead to 10-6 in the top of the eighth when Santi Montiel scored on a wild pitch.
- USA cut the Texas State lead to 10-8 on a two-out, two-run home run to left field by Montiel in the top of the ninth. Stokes then drew a walk, and Hunter Donaldson reached on a single to left field. Sanford later delivered a two-out, two-run double off the center field wall to tie the score 10-10 before the Bobcats secured the win in the bottom of the ninth on Pena's walk-off single.

NOTES
- Turner extended his on-base streak to 28 games with an RBI infield single in the top of the seventh. 
- Altamirano extended his on-base streak to 26 games when he reached on a hit by pitch in the top of the second. 
- Orbeta extended his on-base streak to 24 games with a walk to lead off the game. 
- Landon Jordan's on-base streak was snapped at 14 games.
- Simington extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a double to right-center field in the top of the ninth.  
- Sullivan's solo home run in the top of the second marked his third of the season.
- Stokes homered twice, marking his first career multi-home run game. 

Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On the loss:
"Our guys fought like crazy. Eric Lin's numbers don't look good, but I thought he was much better. We had a miscommunication on a fly ball with two outs in the second (inning), and he didn't help his case after that but that would have gotten us out of the inning – a freshman on the road against a very good team. I give Lin credit for keeping his composure and working through that. Our guys hung in there and fought, it's a matter of playing a complete ballgame. We need to pitch better, and I thought Lin went out there and competed, and I thought he deserved a better fate. We've played really good defense this year, and the miscommunication on the fly ball kind of opened the flood gates in the second inning. We were down 10-2 and our guys could have just rolled over, but they kept going hard and that's a good thing. You have no choice but to go hard and keep fighting, and you keep playing until things start going your way. We just have to keep playing hard and showing up. We need to show up again tomorrow and have a great effort. We need to be great on the mound and play great defense, and take advantage of opportunities offensively when they appear tomorrow."

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