EDINBURG, TEXAS – Tanner Wall's (San Antonio/Johnsons HS) three RBI's led the University of the Incarnate Word baseball team to a non-conference 7-3 win in 11 innings against UT-Pan American on Tuesday afternoon in Edinburg.

The Cardinals (11-16) took a 3-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but a 2-out, 2-run triple by Logan Landon tied the game and sent it into extra innings.

Neither team scored in the first extra frame, but in the 11^th inning, Wall singled to right field with the bases loaded to give UIW a 5-3 lead. Blake Woosley (Corvallis, OR/Philomath HS) then added a couple of insurance runs with a 2-RBI single to left field to make it 7-3.

Matthew Decker (Hickory Creek/Lake Dallas HS) pitched both extra frames and threw his second scoreless inning of the night in the 11th, ending the game on a 4-6-3 double play.  Decker grabbed the win for the Cardinals with two innings of work, allowing only one hit and no runs.

Kris Looper (Wharton/Wharton HS) started on the mound for the Cardinals going six innings, scattering six hits, one run (unearned) and four walks while striking out one, but he got a no-decision.  Andrew Padron took the loss for the Broncs after allowing four runs on five hits in three innings.

Mark Whitehead (San Antonio/Johnson HS), Austin Hoffman (Goodyear, AZ/Millenium HS) and Wall all collected two hits apiece, while Hoffman hit a solo home run, his second of the season, in the second inning.  Colton Besett (Cedar Park/Vista Ridge HS) also drove in a run in the second inning with a single.

Correy Davis and Cole Loncar combined to go 6-for-11 at the top of the lineup for the Broncs (11-15), while the rest of the team finished 4-for-29.

The Cardinals are back on the road this weekend as they travel to Nichols to face the Colonels in a Southland Conference three-game series starting Thursday at 6:00 p.m.
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