IRVINE, CA --- In each of his first four at-bats, junior second baseman Edgar Guillen fought off tough pitches and did everything else a batter is supposed to do, but was 0-for-4 before delivering a two-out game-winning single in the 10th to give Concordia a 7-6 win over California Baptist.

Guillen, starting his third game in a row at second base after never playing there in his collegiate career, ripped a 1-0 pitch into the left-center field gap to score sophomore left fielder Kyle Konicek and stave off a four-game sweep at the hands of the Lancers.

Concordia ends the four-game season series with California Baptist at 8-5, including a 1-3 mark in Golden State Athletic Conference play, while CBU ends the day at 14-4, 3-1 GSAC.

Originally scheduled to last seven innings, today's game was one strike away from ending in the top of the seventh when junior right-hander Dean Persinger backed CBU's Zach Hedges into an 0-2 count with two out and a runner on second base.

However, Hedges managed to pull the 0-2 pitch through the hole of short and third and plate the game-tying run, making the score 6-6 and setting the stage for extra innings.

Each team left eight runners on base throughout the game, which featured 11 pitchers (five from Concordia, six from California Baptist) and lasted just over three hours.

Sophomore left-hander Josh White earns the win for Concordia after coming on to face CBU's Sharif Othman, who had gone 6-for-11 with two homers, a double and six RBI in the previous three head-to-head games.

White (1-0) retired the switch-hitting Othman on a groundout to third base with one out and none on in the 10th, then allowed a bunt single before striking out a pinch hitter to preserve a 6-6 ballgame heading into the bottom of the frame.

Konicek welcomed Hedges to the mound in the bottom of the 10th with a hard single up the middle, but it looked like he might stay on the basepaths to end the inning before Guillen's two-out walk-off single scored him.

The Eagles scored two runs in the first inning to counter a CBU run in the top of the frame when junior third baseman Danny Casey homered to left-center, and Concordia made it a 4-2 game thanks in part to a solo shot from junior shortstop Robbie Knowles in the third after CBU scored its second unearned run of the contest in the top of the third.

CBU scored three times in the top of the fifth to take the lead at 5-4, but Casey reached to start the sixth inning, then moved up on a single from Konicek, who had shown bunt before swinging away on a nicley excecuted butcher boy play to bring up junior catcher John Hill with two on and no out.

Hill knocked in both runners with a double in the right-center field gap, but his potential run was stranded to end the inning, leaving California Baptist within a run, at 6-5, heading to the seventh.

Hedges (1-1), who would later take the loss for the Lancers, knocked in the game-tying run in the seventh to plate leadoff hitter Garrett Rau, whose bunt single led off the inning.

Casey reached base four times, knocked in three and scored three, while Hill, Konicek and senior center fielder Pete Lemone each ended the day with two hits.

Junior lefty Melvin Blackmon Jr. started and went 4.1 innings, where he allowed four runs (two earned) on five hits and three walks. He struck out two before giving way to freshman righty Chris Barnes in the fifth.

The Eagles next host the NAIA's No. 9 Fresno Pacific this Wednesday (March 3), in a GSAC doubleheader starting at 10:30 a.m. at Eagle Field.