The New Mexico State Aggies’ bid for a stunning college baseball upset Friday night ended in anticlimactic fashion with a 10th-inning, bases-loaded walk, giving
Oregon State a 5-4 victory over NMSU in a first-round NCAA Regional game in Corvallis, Oregon.
The Aggies (24-33), an improbable entrant in the tournament, almost did the even more improbable. They took a 3-2 lead against the Beavers (45-15), the tournament’s third overall seed, on Tommy Tabak’s two-run double in the seventh inning.
After the Beavers regained the lead with two runs in the bottom of the sevnth, NMSU’s tied it in the top of the ninth when Nolan Funke singled, advanced to second on a groundout and scored on Preston Godfrey’s single.