GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Julian Boyd's walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave top-seeded Colorado Mesa a 7-6 win over No. 6 seed UCCS in the opening round of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament at the Bus Bergman Sports Complex on Wednesday (May 11) evening.
 
Boyd entered the game in the bottom of the eighth inning for Matthew Turner and delivered immediately. The junior laced a 1-0 pitch to center field that scored Conrad Villafuerte and cut the UCCS lead to 6-5 at the time.
 
In the top half of the ninth inning, Boyd made his presence felt on defense. The Mountain Lions were looking to add some insurance, but Boyd denied that claim. Macully Sehr laced a single to right field, but the Los Angeles native came up throwing and hosed pinch runner Mason Pastorello at the plate.
 
In the Mesa half of the ninth inning, Caleb Farmer led off with a seven-pitch walk followed by a Haydn McGeary single up the middle. Spencer Bramwell stepped to the plate and delivered a sharply hit single to center field to load the bases for Conrad Villafuerte. UCCS made a pitching change before Villafuerte hammered a 1-0 pitch to center for a sac fly to score Farmer from third to knot the game at six aside. Chase Hamilton struck out before a Stevenson Reynolds walk brought Boyd to the plate for the heroics.
 
McGeary finished the game 4-for-5 with three runs scored and two runs driven in. In the bottom of the fourth, McGeary crushed a 2-2 pitch into the parking lot beyond the left field fence for his 27^th home run of the season.
 
Harrison Rodgers finished with three hits and Hamilton had two hits.
 
Reliever Cooper Vasquez earned the win in relief and moved to 5-3 on the season. He allowed just two hits, walked two and struck out six in two and two-thirds innings of shutout baseball.
 
Colorado Mesa improves to 37-12 on the year.
 
The Mavericks will move onto to tomorrow's 3:00pm game where they will face the CSU Pueblo ThunderWolves. The Pack fell 4-2 to the MSU Denver Roadrunners earlier in the day.