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In one of the must gut-wrenching and exciting games in recent Louisiana College baseball history, the Wildcats fell to the 12^th ranked UT-Tyler Patriots by a final score of 8-7 in 11 innings in front of the biggest home crowd of the season at wildcat Field.
 
The Patriots, who clinched their eighth consecutive ASC East title with the win, took a commanding 5-0 lead early on, highlighted by a Kevan House solo home run in the first inning and a four run fifth inning.
 
But the Wildcats, who have become accustomed to creating dramatic finishes would not quit on this Friday night, as Cole Bagbey got one of the runs back the fifth with an RBI double to deep left center, scoring Colt Ducote.
 
LC would then bring themselves within one an inning later, as an RBI sacrifice fly by Matt Scott, an RBI single Jake Hillman, and an RBI groundout by Colt Ducote made the score 4-3 in favor of UT-Tyler.
 
Ducote would collect another RBI in eighth inning that put LC behind by a single run once again, 5-4.
 
Trailing by one in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, LC junior first baseman Matt Scott singled to center field before being lifted for freshman pinch runner Cody McNeal.
 
McNeal would then give his team a huge lift, as he stole second base off of UT-Tyler reliever Derek Miller then proceeded to steal third just a few pitches later. Cary Myers then tied the game 5-5 with an RBI single off of Miller's glove, scoring McNeal.
 
After both teams went scoreless in the tenth inning, the Patriots got two runs in the top of the 11^th inning on a Isaac Tijernia RBi double deep off the left centerfield wall and an RBI single from House.
 
But the Wildcats would show yet even more fight in the 11^th, as Cary Myers singled home Kyle Feazell to make the score 8-7 in favor of UT-Tyler.
 
Down by one with runners on first and third with one out, Patriots reliever Jake Beam would get Taylor Beavers to pop out to short before Jake Hillman grounded into a fielder's choice to end the dramatic extra innings affair.
 
Despite falling short of their goal to sweep the three-game set and claim the ASC Eastern Division Crown, the Wildcats (20-16, 10-6) can still claim the #2 seed from the East, and home field advantage in the first round of the ASC Tournament, with a win in Saturday's doubleheader, which is set to begin at noon at Wildcat Field.