SEGUIN, Texas â€" The Texas Lutheran baseball team stormed back from a four-run deficit in the seventh inning and eventually defeated DeSales 7-6 in walk-off fashion in the 11th inning Wednesday at Katt-Isbel Field.
 
Von Wendel (Austin, Texas) came up with the walk-off single, driving a pitch into left center that scored Derek Kanas from second base. Kanas (New Braunfels, Texas) led off the inning with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Keaton Bohrmann. Klaus Bohrmann followed that up with a walk before Wendel's heroics ended the game.
 
The win improved the Bulldogs' record to 11-5 on the year and was their third in the last four games. DeSales fell to 0-4 in the early season with the loss.
 
The Bulldogs' extra-inning dramatics would not have been possible without an impressive comeback earlier in the game. After falling behind 6-2, the Bulldogs answered with three runs in the seventh inning and one more in the eighth to tie the game up.
 
Klaus Bohrmann got the rally started in the seventh with a two-run single up the middle that scored both Kanas and Zach Jacobs. Wendel followed that up with an RBI single down the left field line that scored Keaton Bohrmann. Wendel entered the game as a pinch hitter during that at bat. The Bulldogs racked up four hits in the inning while also drawing a walk and a hit-by-pitch.
 
TLU knotted the score in the eighth when Kanas ripped a single that scored Christian DeBlanc. DeBlanc had singled with two outs, then advanced to second on a balk.
 
Brett Clark (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) was the pitcher of record for the Bulldogs as he came in and threw a perfect 11th inning to get the Bulldogs back in the dugout. The TLU bullpen came up big on Wednesday, with four pitchers combining for eight innings while giving up just one unearned run. The bullpen conceded just three hits in those eight innings.
 
Both Conner Capdau (Sugar Land, Texas) and Blake Balazs (Austin, Texas) threw three innings of relief with Capdau allowing one unearned run on one hit and Balazs giving three shutout innings while allowing two hits.
 
Cody Moore got the start for the Bulldogs and gave up five runs (four earned) in his three innings of work.
 
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning off a DeBlanc RBI single that scored Tony Gennusa. Desales answered with a big fourth inning, scoring five runs.
 
Texas Lutheran finished with 15 hits on the day and the offense was plenty balanced as six different Bulldogs finished with two hits.
 
Next up for the Bulldogs is the start of SCAC play. They open up conference competition with a three-game home series starting with a noon doubleheader Saturday, March 9 against Dallas. Live stats will be available via TLUBulldogs.com.