BEAUMONT, Texas — It was the first extra-inning game of the season for the Lamar University Cardinals.

With the score tied up at 4-4 in the bottom of the 10th and runners at second and third, Zak Skinner hit a chopper to second to bring in Trent Baker to lift the Cardinals to a 5-4 victory over New Mexico State on Wednesday afternoon at Vincent-Beck Stadium.

Starting pitcher Kyle Moseley was dealing, striking eight of the 12 batters he faced.

Meanwhile, the offense got a run in the bottom of the second after a leadoff double by Reese Beheler, Heladio Moreno hit an RBI single through the left side.

The Aggies flipped the script in the top of the fourth when they scored two runs without tallying a single hit.

NM State pushed across another run on a bunt single to make the score 3-1 in the top of the fifth.

LU took a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the seventh when Damian Ruiz drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to left.

Brayden Evans then delivered a clutch two-RBI double to right.

The Aggies tied up the score in the top of the eighth on a sacrifice fly to left.

To setup up the walk off in the 10th, Zane Spinn had a leadoff single while Reese Beheler hit a ground-rule double down the right field line to put runners in scoring position.

BY THE NUMBERS

• The Cards finished with 12 hits.
• Ruiz went 2 for 4 with a pair of singles and an RBI to extend his on-base streak to 18 games.
• Evans finished 1 for 4 with a double, two RBIs and a walk to extend his hit streak to six games.
• Beheler went 2 for 5 with a pair of doubles.
• Moreno tallied two singles to go 2 for 3 with a walk and an RBI.
• Bryce Grizzaffi had two singles to go 2 for 4.
• Spinn had a single to finish 1 for 5.
• Matt Ryan went 1 for 2 with a single and a walk.
• The LU pitching staff finished with 16 strikeouts — a new game high.
• Moseley tallied eight strikeouts in three innings of work while he allowed two hits.
• Fabian Ramirez earned his first win of the season after throwing three innings not allowing a single hit while he tallied two strikeouts.
• Relievers Coleson Abel and Luke Krkovski each had two strikeouts.

UP NEXT

The Cardinals resume Southland Conference play by traveling to Lake Charles, La., for a three-game series against McNeese beginning Friday, March 14 at 6 p.m.