MONMOUTH, Ore. --- The Western Oregon baseball team scored five runs in the final two innings - including getting a two-run walk-off single from Randy Stultz on Senior Day - to take game two 9-8 over Montana State Billings on Saturday after dropping game one 11-1 on Saturday at WOU Baseball Field.

With the split, the Wolves now sit at 11-17 in GNAC play - two games back of Central Washington for the third-and-final spot into the GNAC Championships with four games left.

WOU travels to take on last-place Saint Martin's next week while Central Washington goes to MSU Billings. Since CWU owns the head-to-head tiebreaker (the Wildcats were 6-2 against WOU this season), the Wolves will either need to sweep Saint Martin's and CWU go 1-3 or 0-4 against MSUB, or go 3-1 versus SMU and CWU 0-4 against MSUB for WOU to leapfrog the Wildcats into the final GNAC postseason spot.

WOU gave itself a better chance by rallying in Saturday's second game against the Yellowjackets (28-16, 19-9). Down 7-2 heading into the bottom of the fourth, a Tyler Mohler RBI double and a Darin Chapman RBI single cut the MSUB lead to three. 

The score remained that way into the sixth when the Wolves' Trey Nelson hit an RBI single before Zane Garvey came through with a two-out, two-strike two-run double just inside the left field line to tie the game 7-7.

MSUB regained the lead in the top of the seventh and looked to close the game out before back-to-back singles by Collin Irwin and John Oleson to start the inning got the Wolves rolling. A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third before a two-run, pinch-hit single by Stultz walked it off for the Wolves.

Irwin finished 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBI and a run for the Wolves while Nelson was 2-for-3 with an RBI a and two runs. Bryce Bond - who set the WOU all-time record for pitching appearances with 64 in the second game - was dominant in relief. The senior went four innings and gave up an unearned run on two hits with five strikeouts and no walks to pick up the win.

In game one, the contest was tied 1-1 after Garvey hit an RBI single in the third. But MSUB scored three on the fourth and cruised from there for the 11-1 win.

WOU opens its series with Saint Martin's 1 p.m. Thursday.