PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo baseball concluded Sunday's suspended game here Monday afternoon with MSU Billings by falling 12-10 to the Yellowjackets at Rawlings Field.
The game was suspended after six innings on Sunday due to darkness with the ThunderWolves holding a 9-7 lead over the MSU Billings.

With the setback, CSU Pueblo fell to 1-9 overall on the season, while MSU Billings improved to 4-4 on the season.

The game featured a combined 29 hits, four errors, 13 walks, seven wild pitches and four hit batsmen by both teams. The Pack recorded 13 hits and drew seven walks in the game, but left 15 runners stranded on base.

Holding a 9-7 lead heading into the seventh inning, that lead by the Pack quickly evaporated as the Yellowjackets sent nine hitters to the plate and took advantage of three hits, a fielder error by sophomore third baseman Kysen Howard (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Northwest), a balk and a hit batsmen to score four runs to take an 11-9 lead. The big blow in the inning was a 3-run pinch hit home run off of junior reliever Dylan Weaver (Fruita, Colo./Highland CC) over the wall in right from Mitch Winter to give the Yellowjackets the lead back for good.

MSU Billings would add an insurance run in the eighth thanks to an RBI single by Zach Blaszak to push out to a 12-9 lead.

The Pack, though, would make things interesting in the bottom of the eighth, as Howard opened the frame with a walk, moved to second on a single by sophomore second baseman Kolton Miller (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa) and both runners advanced a base when sophomore left fielder Elijah Borjas (Denver, Colo./Lakewood) was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. The next hitter, senior first baseman Reggie Williams (Castle Rock, Colo./Douglas County), hit a ground ball that resulted in a RBI and out to pull the Pack within two runs at 12-10. Williams' grounder scored Howard from third. Senior centerfielder Noah Hennings (Draper, Utah/Southern Idaho) struck out to end the inning.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Pack put two runners on base thanks to a double by junior designated hitter Christian Casteneda (El Paso, Texas/Otero JC) and a single by Howard, but Cy Miller, who was the third pitcher of the game for the Yellowjackets, would get out of the jam by forcing freshman rightfielder Jeremiah Sanchez (Pueblo, Colo./Pueblo West) to ground out to end the game.  
Casteneda paced the Pack offense with three hits, while Williams, Howard, Hennings and redshirt senior shortstop Trey Vasquez (Greeley, Colo./Dodge City CC) each had two hits in the loss. Williams also had 4 RBI, while Sanchez scored three runs.

The top four hitters in the Pack line-up (Williams, Hennings, Vasquez and Casteneda) went a combined 9-for-19 at the plate with four runs scored, seven RBI and drew three walks.

CSU Pueblo, who trailed 5-1 after three innings against MSU Billings, erupted for five runs in fourth inning to take a 6-5 lead, before the Yellowjackets scored twice in the fifth to retake the lead at 7-6.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Pack scored a run without the benefit of a hit to tie the game at 7-all. In the inning, the Pack drew two walks, reached base on a catcher's interference, took advantage of a wild pitch Hunter Smith and scored the tying run on a sacrifice fly down the right field line in foul territory off the bat of Hennings.

The Pack retook the lead in the bottom of the sixth as they used two hits, a two wild pitches and a walk to score two runs to take a 9-7 lead. In the inning, Casteneda led off with a double, moved to third on a wild pitch and would score on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Howard to give the Pack an 8-7 lead. The Pack would then load the bases thanks to a single by Sanchez, a walk issued to redshirt junior pinch hitter Cole Knightley (Solvang, Calif./Santa Ynez) and Borjas was hit by a Cy Miller pitch. With the bases loaded and Williams at the bat, Miller, who was the third pitcher of the game for MSUB uncorked a wild pitch that advanced the runners and allowed Sanchez to score to give the Pack a 9-7 lead. Williams would eventually reload the bases as Miller hit him with a pitch, before Miller got out of the jam by getting Hennings to fly out to right to end the inning.

MSU Billings scored three runs in the first inning, including scoring two runs on a 2-run homer by Kaden Kirshenbaum off of graduate student pitcher Cole Martin (Ridgecrest, Calif./Cerro Coso CC), who started on the mound for the Pack.

The Yellow Jackets lead grew to 4-0 in the second on a lead-off homer by Payton Flynn and then added a fifth run in the third on an RBI double to left center by Tyler Godfrey.

CSU Pueblo would get on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third thanks to a two-out double by Hennings and an RBI single off the bat Vasquez.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Pack batted around as they recorded four hits and took advantage of an error by the 'Jackets to score five runs and take a 6-5 lead. The big hit in the inning was a bases-clearing 3-run double off the bat of Williams. The next two runs in the inning were scored on an RBI single by Hennings and a wild pitch later in the inning by Smith, who replaced MSU Billings starter Andy Evans after walking Vasquez in the fourth inning.

MSU Billings retook the lead in the top of the fifth thanks to a 2-run double by Kirshenbaum off of sophomore Travis Farrell (Las Vegas, Nev./Otero JC). Farrell replaced Martin with two outs in the third inning after Martin appeared to have suffered an injury to his arm.

Farrell pitched 3.1 solid innings out of the bullpen to keep the Pack in the game as he allowed three hits and two runs, while walking three and fanning four in his 59 pitch outing in relief of Martin, who tossed 2.2 innings and allowed six hits and five runs, while walking one and fanning four.

MSUB was paced offensively by Kirshenbaum, who had three hits and 4 RBI, while Carson Green, Hayden Foltz, Godfrey and Flynn each had two hits in the win.

Miller (2-0) picked up the win in relief as he tossed 3.1 innings and allowed three hits, while walking three and striking out two in his 54-pitch relief outing.

The two teams were scheduled to close the weekend series with a nine inning game that was scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. first pitch.