Completed Event: Baseball at Arizona on March 3, 2026 , Win , 7, to, 5
Baseball
at Arizona
W 7-5
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Sunday, March 2
San Marcos, Texas
12 p.m. (MST)
Grand Canyon
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Texas State
Photo by: Scott Foley
GCU drops Sunday finale in extras
3/2/2025 3:15:00 PM | Baseball
Lopes eyed sweep with 5-4 lead in 9th before Texas State comeback
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Grand Canyon was eyeing a sweep of its three-game series at Texas State with a ninth-inning lead at Bobcat Ballpark on Sunday. The Bobcats, however, scored a run in the ninth to force extras and walked off with a 6-5 win in the 10th.
Junior right fielder Josh Wakefield more than took advantage of his first three starts of the season, compiling a seven-hit weekend. The seventh hit was nearly the game winner on Sunday, with a seventh-inning solo home run giving GCU (7-4) a late 5-4 lead.
Texas State (7-4) used a leadoff double and a sacrifice fly to tie in the bottom of the ninth and sent the game to extra innings. In the 10th, GCU senior closer Walter Quinn worked a leadoff strikeout before three straight Bobcats reached base including a walk-off single that salvaged one game in the series for Texas State.
Seven pitches into the series finale, the Lopes had a lead. Junior shortstop Emilio Barreras singled to his position, and junior first baseman Zach Yorke homered to left-center. Yorke's second home run of the season, measured at 414 feet, gave the Lopes a 2-0 lead that held until the third.
Texas State struck for four runs in the third inning, though three of them were unearned after the Lopes' lone error of the afternoon extended the inning.
To the Lopes' credit, they responded immediately with a game-tying two-run fourth inning.
After senior third baseman Eli Paton led off the inning with a single and moved to second on a steal, senior left fielder Michael Diaz drove him in on a single to center. Diaz himself scored the tying run when sophomore second baseman Troy Sanders singled down the first base line.
Wakefield led off the seventh by hammering the second pitch he saw over the wall in left-center for the GCU lead.
GCU kept Texas State scoreless in seven of the first eight innings largely thanks to its middle infield turning four 6-4-3 double plays. Three of them ended innings.
Middle relievers Barrett Skaugrud and Jace Smith were the highlights of GCU's pitching staff on Sunday. Skaugrud, a senior righty, threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts. Smith, a junior right-hander, followed with 1 1/3 innings of no-hit relief.
Of GCU's eight hits on the day, three of them came from Wakefield in the No. 9 spot in the order. He is 7-for-10 (.700) through his first three starts as a Lope.
The Lopes are set to return to Phoenix for a four-game homestand that begins with a 6 p.m. Tuesday matchup against Pepperdine.
Junior right fielder Josh Wakefield more than took advantage of his first three starts of the season, compiling a seven-hit weekend. The seventh hit was nearly the game winner on Sunday, with a seventh-inning solo home run giving GCU (7-4) a late 5-4 lead.
Texas State (7-4) used a leadoff double and a sacrifice fly to tie in the bottom of the ninth and sent the game to extra innings. In the 10th, GCU senior closer Walter Quinn worked a leadoff strikeout before three straight Bobcats reached base including a walk-off single that salvaged one game in the series for Texas State.
Seven pitches into the series finale, the Lopes had a lead. Junior shortstop Emilio Barreras singled to his position, and junior first baseman Zach Yorke homered to left-center. Yorke's second home run of the season, measured at 414 feet, gave the Lopes a 2-0 lead that held until the third.
Texas State struck for four runs in the third inning, though three of them were unearned after the Lopes' lone error of the afternoon extended the inning.
To the Lopes' credit, they responded immediately with a game-tying two-run fourth inning.
After senior third baseman Eli Paton led off the inning with a single and moved to second on a steal, senior left fielder Michael Diaz drove him in on a single to center. Diaz himself scored the tying run when sophomore second baseman Troy Sanders singled down the first base line.
Wakefield led off the seventh by hammering the second pitch he saw over the wall in left-center for the GCU lead.
GCU kept Texas State scoreless in seven of the first eight innings largely thanks to its middle infield turning four 6-4-3 double plays. Three of them ended innings.
Middle relievers Barrett Skaugrud and Jace Smith were the highlights of GCU's pitching staff on Sunday. Skaugrud, a senior righty, threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts. Smith, a junior right-hander, followed with 1 1/3 innings of no-hit relief.
Of GCU's eight hits on the day, three of them came from Wakefield in the No. 9 spot in the order. He is 7-for-10 (.700) through his first three starts as a Lope.
The Lopes are set to return to Phoenix for a four-game homestand that begins with a 6 p.m. Tuesday matchup against Pepperdine.
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