WACO — Lindsey Stewart went 2-for-4 and drove in a run to notch her fourth multi-hit game of the season, but Grand Canyon scored in the both the sixth and ninth innings to rally for a 4-3 victory in extra innings on Saturday at the Getterman Classic.
Stewart also stole a pair of bases for the Roadrunners (2-4), while Celeste Loughman and Kaley Pyles also recorded two hits. In the circle, Lizzy Fox went six innings and gave up just two earned runs, while Nicole Merrill allowed one hit in her three innings of relief.
The Antelopes (8-1) jumped ahead with a pair of runs in the top of the first off of three doubles. Grand Canyon pitcher Brianna Aguilar kept UTSA off the scoreboard until the Roadrunners plated three in the bottom of the fourth.
Pyles started the rally with a one-out single that was followed by a four-pitch walk to Taylor Oberg. Erica Sanchez then came through with her first hit of the campaign, a single up the middle that sliced the deficit in half.
Oberg went to third on the play and the senior touched home on a grounder off the bat of pinch-hitter Alyssa Cummings to knot the score, 2-2. UTSA then took the lead on Stewart's bunt single to bring Sanchez home.
However, Grand Canyon turned a UTSA error into a run to tie the game in the top of the sixth and neither team could pull ahead in the seventh to send the contest to extra innings.
Using the international tie-breaker, the contest remained locked through the eighth before the Antelopes broke through in the top of the ninth. Camree Wartman started the frame with an RBI single that pushed Grand Canyon to a 4-3 advantage.
In the bottom of the ninth, Stewart singled and stole second to put runners at second and third with nobody out. However, Grand Canyon escaped the jam with a strikeout, line out and fly out to preserve the 4-3 victory.
UTSA will close tournament play at 1 p.m. on Sunday when it will take on No. 23 Baylor (6-2) for the second time in four days. The Bears downed the Roadrunners, 5-0, in Thursday's tournament opener.
