If you ride a rollercoaster long enough, you begin to anticipate the scary parts and they become a lot easier to deal with.
Kiko Romero singled home Nik McClaughry in the bottom of the ninth, giving Arizona a 13-12 win over Oregon State in the Pac-12 Tournament on Wednesday afternoon at Scottsdale Stadium. The eighth-seeded Wildcats (32-23) won Pool A with a 2-0 record, advancing to Friday’s semifinals, while furthering their case to earn a spot in the NCAA tourney.
Arizona avenged a pair of walkoff losses to the second-seeded Beavers (39-17) late last month by rallying from an early 4-run hole to eventually take a 4-run lead after six, only to give up the lead in the eighth.