Boyd is no stranger to college playoff baseball.
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Coastal Carolina defeated Arizona 5-4 to force a winner-take-all Game Three in the College World Series Finals on Tuesday night.
The teams will play a decisive third game on Wednesday.
Baseball fans with cable and satellite packages can tune in to all the exciting action, thanks to ESPN’s College World Series live stream.
Marks led off the eighth with a single off fellow lefty Cameron Ming and was bunted to second.
Coastal Carolina broke it open with back-to-back hits from Zach Remillard (double) and G.K. Young (single).
But don’t expect Coastal Carolina to go down without a fight! Coastal Carolina better change things up or the Wildcats will be taking the World Series trophy back to Tucson.
Arizona loaded the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the eighth. Louis Boyd then reached on an error, allowing Dalbec to score and move Behnke to second representing the tying run.
The Wildcats did eventually break through again in the fifth, after a leadoff walk to Cody Ramer and a Zach Gibbons single put runners on first and third with no outs.
Bobby Holmes, who worked the eighth, retired the Wildcats in order in the ninth for the win. They were able to get two runners into scoring position with just one out.
Morrison did not factor into the decision, but was strong after surrendering an early run.
On Tuesday night though, Coastal Carolina pitcher Mike Morrison brought the heat to the mound.
Now a junior at Arizona, Dalbec graduated from Legend in 2013.
In 12 CWS games at TD Ameritrade Park (2012 and 2016), the Wildcats have outscored opponents 16-0 in the first inning.
Arizona’s next mistake of the night came with one on in the top of third, when Ginkel threw a wild pitch that advanced CCU’s Billy Cooke to second.
After David Parrett reached on a two-base error, Cooke and Parrett scored on a single by Michael Paez. Ramer was thrown at third base for the second out of the inning. The game was tied 2-2 going into the bottom of the seventh.
This ended up in Ramer being picked off at third, and Gibbons was nearly picked off at second. Matijevic struck out on a nasty curveball, but Aguilar grounded a fielder’s choice up the middle to score Ramer and tie the game at the time.
He didn’t disappoint, going seven innings, scattering just five hits and did not walk a Chanticleer.
Swing, batter-batter-batter! It’s time for Game 2 of the 2016 College World Series and the Arizona Wildcats are ready to pounce on the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers.
Arizona had no shortage of opportunities throughout the game against Morrison and Holmes, but struggled to deliver the timely hits.
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However, every indication is that Coastal Carolina will go with righty Andrew Beckwith, who is 14-1 with a 1.94 ERA on the season and turned in a complete game victory in each of his two previous starts in the College World Series, a 2-1 win over Florida in the first round and a 4-1 win over TCU in the first game of the semifinals last Friday.
