MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Oklahoma Baptist erased a four-run deficit in the final four innings and took advantage of five Campbellsville errors to win the NCCAA World Series on a sacrifice fly in extra innings, 7-6.

Campbellsville led 6-2 after five innings but the Tigers were unable to keep that lead, committing a season-high five errors in the final game of the season and allowing four unearned runs.
 
Tied at six in the 10^th inning, Kirby Broadbent allowed a couple one-out singles but a passed ball by Riley Joyce allowed both to advance into scoring position. Josh Timms then delivered a walk-off sacrifice fly into shallow left-center field for the game winner. The Tigers had a chance to throw out Kevin Olmeda at the plate but Hunter Christensen's throw was bobbled by Joyce at the plate and Olmeda was able to slide under the tag.
 
The World Series championship is the second straight for the Bison, as the appearance in the title game is the first for CU. The Tigers end the season one win away from 40 at 39-23.
 
The first five innings were all Campbellsville as CU jumped ahead 6-2 and Nick Przybylek was a stud on the mound. The senior from Riverside, Calif. Pitching seven innings, allowing eight hits and three earned runs in his final appearance as a Tigers.

In the second inning, it was a two-run RBI single by Matt Valdez putting CU ahead until Oklahoma Baptist tied it in the eighth off reliever Jared Welander.
 
CU conceded a run in the third, as Valdez turned one of the two double plays for Campbellsville. The Tigers answered in the fourth, as Christensen and Diego Reynoso both singled, as Valdez drove in his third run with a sac fly to right field.
 
Leading now 3-1, the Bison scratched back with their first unearned run in the fourth inning. Garmendia misplayed a ground ball and that run came around to score on Nick Burnham bases loaded hit-by-pitch.
 
The Tigers' bats had one final push, though. Brett Hamilton hit a moon shot off the video board at Prasco Park for a three-run homer – his eighth of the season – to put CU ahead 6-2.

CU chased OBU starter Jinny Parra out of the game after a season-low four-inning appearance, allowing nine hits and three runs but Tyler Gibson was the difference maker for the Bison on the hill.
 
From the sixth inning on, the Tigers were blanked by Gibson and the defense let Przybylek down on the mound, giving Oklahoma Baptist all the momentum. In the five innings Gibson tossed, he saw a maximum of four batters in an inning and sat the Tigers down 1-2-3 three times.
 
The Bison scored a pair of two-out runs in the sixth after Burnham, Joseph Moran and Dustyn Cook all singled to plate the first one. Brent Berghammer singled to left for the second run and cut the Tigers' lead in half, 6-4.
 
Przybylek got into a jam in the seventh after another leadoff error by Garmendia bit CU in the backside. With runners on second and third and one out, Przybylek allowed only one unearned run – a sac fly by Burnham – and OBU cut the Tigers' lead to one, 6-5.
 
Welander entered in the eighth and Valdez fell victim to an error, allowing the leadoff Dustyn Cook on first. Welander was fantastic the next two batters, striking them both out with his hard-breaking curve ball, but lost the zone and walked the game-tying run in.
 
Broadbent entered in the ninth and worked Hunter Heath into a fly out to end the Oklahoma Baptist threat.
 
Now moving to extra innings, the Tigers had a one-out double by David Montoya go by the waste side, as he was stranded in the 10^th.
 
The Bison were finally about to get past CU in the bottom of the 10^th for the third win over the Tigers in the past two seasons in the NCCAA World Series.
 
Gibson tossed six innings, allowed four hits and only the three-run homer by Hamilton in the fifth. He struck out four on 67 pitches. Broadbent (5-1) was the tough luck loser on the hill for CU.

Offensively, Hamilton and Christensen led the Tigers with three hits a piece. Valdez and Montoya each had a pair of hits as well in the loss.