Stockton, Calif. - Finishing the weekend against BYU, the Tigers could not come up with the win on Saturday afternoon as the Cougars snuck past Pacific, 6-4, in 11 innings at Klein Family Field. BYU (23-21, 12-9 WCC) salvaged the last game of the weekend after Pacific (11-33, 8-13 WCC) won the opening two contests to take the season series.

On a hot May day in Stockton, the final game of the three-game series between the Tigers and the Cougars came down to a battle of attrition with BYU outlasting Pacific in the second free inning of baseball. With the game tied at 4-4, BYU was able to finally get to closer Vince Arobio (1-1) as the sophomore found himself in his third inning of work after entering in the ninth to preserve the tie. Arobio had pitched into and out of trouble in both of his previous innings of work but could not work the same magic in the 11th as the Cougars came up with three-straight singles to start the inning and score what would be the game-winning run.

With runners at the corners, Dillon Robinson delivered the hit that would break the tie as he came up with his first hit of the game after having gone 0-for-5 through the first 10 innings of play. Two batters later, Parker Starr delivered a fourth-hit in the frame to bring in an insurance run in front of Pacific's final chances in the bottom half of the inning.

Prior to the 11th, the two teams traded two-run innings in the fourth while BYU scored two more in the fifth before Pacific answered with two of its own in the sixth.

For the third time on the weekend, BYU scored first with two runs, this time waiting until the fourth when Jarrett Jarvis came up with a two-out, two-RBI, single with the bases loaded to start the scoring. An inning later, it was two different hits that did the damage against the Tigers as BYU retook the lead.

In between BYU's two scoring innings the Tigers came up with two runs of their own when Nate Verlin laced a shot back up the middle to bring home both Brett Sullivan and Louis Mejia. The two scoring Tigers had reached to start the inning as Sullivan led the inning off with a single while Mejia followed with a double down the left field line. The double for Mejia was the first of two for the junior as he came up with his second extra-base hit of the day in the sixth to start the scoring rally.

Down two, Mejia's double began a second two-run rally for the Tigers as he, along with Verlin, would come in to score Pacific's runs on a two-out single by McKay Koissian. Koissian's single through the left-side came on an 0-2 pitch as the sophomore went thw other way with the pitch from Michael Rucker allowing both runners to score. Koissian would be the last batter Rucker would face as the Cougars went to the pen and brought in Mason Marshall.

While knocking the starter from the game typically proves to be exactly what an offense wants, the move backfired on the Tigers as Marshall proceeded to have one of his best outings in his two seasons at BYU. Finishing off the game for the Cougars, Marshall (3-1) came up with 5.1 IP of scoreless releif as he allowed just two baserunners on one hit and one run. Marshall's performance overshadowed the Tigers' relief core that finished off the final five innings of the game for starter Michael Benson who pitched the first six innings for Pacific. Benson, in the no-decision, gave up four runs on nine hits while striking out five and walking one. 

In relief, the Tigers used four pitchers with Arobio going 2.0 IP while allowing three hits and two runs. He would strike out three but walk four while being charged with the loss. The Tigers three other relievers, Taylor Johnson, Michael Hager, and John Jaeger allowed just one hit over three innings of work.

Offensively, Mejia and B. Sullivan each recorded three hits on the day while Jimmy Gosano added two as Pacific came up with 10 hits on the day. For the Cougars, four different hitters recorded a multi-hit day with Chauncey accounting for three of the six runs on two hits and a fielder's choice.

The Tigers hit the road for the final time in 2015 as they head to the Pacific Northwest for four games beginning with a three-game series at Gonzaga starting on Friday, May 8.