HUNTSVILLE - Stijn van der Meer was the thorn in Sam Houston's side all weekend, and it showed when he scored the game's go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning to give the Lamar baseball team a 3-2 win over the Bearkats on Saturday at Don Sanders Stadium in Southland Conference action.

Sam Houston (28-26, 17-12 Southland Conference) took the day's first game 4-1, which was a resumption in the sixth inning of Friday's contest. Lamar finished their season on a nice note, and wrapped it up with a 21-31 overall record and 10-19 mark in league play.

The teams split the season-ending series after the third game was called because they ran out of time due to postponed contests.

Van der Meer opened the final inning with a single to center field, his seventh hit of the series in eight at-bats.

Jake Nash moved the junior short stop to second base with a sacrifice bunt, and van der Meer advanced to third on Brandon Provost's single through the right side. Defensive entry Justin Eckols poked a 2-0 pitch into shallow left field and scored van der Meer for the 3-2 lead.

Cardinals struck first in the game on Kyle Markum's sacrifice fly to center field that gave Nash a chance to score. Nash reached first with a leadoff single, took second on Provost's single and advanced to third on a fly out from Kevin Santana.

They pushed it to 2-0 in the third inning on a RBI-single through the right side that scored Mason Salazar. Salazar reached on his first hit of the weekend and took second on a walk to Reed Seeley.

The Kats tied the game with back-to-back doubles followed by a single in the eighth inning. Colt Atwood doubled to left center, which led to Cardinal starter Chase Angelle to get pulled from the contest. Derek Wade took over on the mound and promptly allowed a double to Hayden Simerly.

Simerly advanced home on Tyler Winnie's RBI single to right field.

Angelle pitched 7.1 innings and was in line for his sixth victory of the season, but was not able get it after the two-run eighth. The senior gave up seven hits and struck out six in his final game in a Lamar uniform. Derek Wade was only able to record one out and surrendered one run two hits in his outing.

Jayson McKinley (3-3) earned the win out of the bullpen on two scoreless innings with just two hits given up.

The Cards scored their lone run of the first game in the bottom of the seventh inning when Brendan Satran, who led off the frame with a single to right, scored on Seeley's double down the left field line with one out. Lamar left the bases loaded with two strikeouts and a groundout.

Van der Meer was a perfect 4-of-4 in the contest, all were singles. Seeley, Satran and Kyle Markum accounted for LU's other three hits. The Cardinals struck out 12 times in the contest.

Danny Fernandez (4-4) was tagged with the loss on five innings of work with just one run allowed. He surrendered six hits and struck out one. Collin Chapman entered the game to start Saturday, which opened the sixth inning. He finished the contest with three runs allowed and punched out one.

Andrew Godail (4-6) claimed the win on five innings, and also had his start interrupted with the rain on Saturday. He gave up three hits and struck out nine. Alex Bisacca (3) earned the save with four innings of work. He allowed the lone LU run on four hits and three strikeouts.

Sam Houston State scored its first run in the bottom of the fourth inning when Miles Manning grounded into a 4-6-3 double play with Hayden Simerly at third base. Simerly scored on the play after he led off the inning with a single and moved to third base on back-to-back singles by Jake MacWilliam and Zach Smith.

The Bearkats quickly took advantage of the pitching change with two runs in the bottom of the sixth. MacWilliam and Spence Rahm scored on Smith's double to right center, and the fourth and final run was in the bottom of the eighth on a solo home run to left field from MacWilliam.