Box Score WINTER HAVEN, Fla.---The Wheeling Jesuit baseball team needed 11 innings to secure a 10-9 victory over Wayne State College (Neb.) in Winter Haven, Fla.. WJU opened with a lead and had to come from behind for their third straight victory at the RussMatt Classic. With the win, the Cardinals improved to 3-2 overall.
 
WJU (3-2) rallied for three runs on three base hits and two walks in the second inning for an early 3-0 advantage. Robbie Davia earned a base on balls to start the inning, and Cory Wickham followed with a base hit up the middle. With men at first and second, Austin Guy fired a single through the right side to score Davia and sent Wickham to third. Corey Hull walked, and Nick Briski moved the runners up with a base hit to right centerfield. Guy scored when John Pyle grounded into a double play.
 
Jesuit added a run in the third inning as Wickham reached on a WSC (4-5) fielding error which scored Davia after he walked and stole second base. Wayne State added a run to the scoreboard in the third inning and began to chip away at the Cardinal lead.
 
Wheeling Jesuit was held scoreless in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings while the Wildcats plated one run in the fourth and fifth and exploded for four runs in the sixth to take over the scoreboard. WSC used a pair of hits and a WJU fielding error to establish a 7-4 advantage.
 
The Cardinals responded with three runs in the eighth to tie the game 7-7. The inning opened with back-to-back singles by Patrick Ammar and Jordan Kraus. With runners on the corners, pinch hitter Mike Garman pulled a shot down the first base line. The fielder picked-up the ground ball and fired to second base, however, Kraus beat the throw, leaving the runners at first and second. Wickham followed with a 2-RBI line-shot to right centerfield, scoring Kraus and Garman.
 
The Cardinals sent the go ahead runs across the plate in the ninth inning, but Wayne State followed with two runs, forcing extra innings. Ammar and Kraus sent consecutive blasts to the outfield wall for doubles. Kraus scored Ammar, and a single by Wickham gave the Cardinals a two-run advantage, 9-7. In the bottom of the ninth, Wayne State's first two batters reached on a walk and hit by pitch. WSC's designated hitter, Michael Frericks, blasted a shot to right centerfield to score the Wildcats eighth run, and Michael Herman tied the game with a sacrifice bunt, 9-9.
 
The 10-inning was three up, three down for both teams, but in the 11-inning, Jesuit tacked on the game winner before a great defensive stop. Medley scored the game winner after the Wayne State's right fielder dropped a fly ball and another throwing error by the catcher led him to the plate.
 
With a 10-9 lead, Jesuit pitcher Ethan Weiss got the first batter to line out, but a fielding error and walk allowed two runners. Weiss struck out the fourth batter, and the game ended as Wickham fielded a ground ball and stepped on third base.
Weiss earned the win with 5.1 innings of work, allowing three runs, two earned, two walks and two hit  by pitches while striking out five batters.
 
Wheeling Jesuit scattered 10 hits around the yard as Wickham led with four singles and four RBI. Kraus and Ammar followed with two hits, a single and a double each, and Kraus added an RBI. Guy and Briski rounded out the hits column with one hit and one RBI apiece.
 
Wheeling Jesuit will play Wayne State in a 9-inning contest on Wednesday, March 6 at 12 p.m.