Box Score Box Score Cedar City, Utah???C For the second straight day Oakland was unable to hold off Southern Utah after taking the lead in both games of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon. In the first game the Golden Grizzlies held a 7-0 lead through the first four innings before losing 9-8. Lightening struck twice as the Thunderbirds rallied once again in game two to take a 4-2 decision. With the losses Oakland failed to make the Mid-Con Tournament as they were swept by Southern Utah in the four-game series, and concludes its season at 20-33 overall, and 7-12 in the conference. Oakland bolted out to its 7-0 lead on the strength of a pair of three run innings, starting in the first with a three-run home run by third baseman Ty Herriott (Ostrander, Ohio). After scoring a single run in the second, the Grizzlies tacked on three more runs in the fourth on a Peter Varon (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) two-run double and an RBI-single from Herriott. The Thunderbirds, who had been held hitless through the first three innings, got their offense on track in the fourth by plating two runs off of Oakland starter Billy Schmieder (Chillicothe, Ohio) on RBI-singles by Jake Reynolds and James Sollami. SUU then added four more runs in the sixth inning to get to within 7-6, with the big blow coming on a bases-loaded, two-run single by catcher Tom Ford, and then tied the score in the seventh thanks to a lead-off single by Ty Doezie, who stole second and scored on a Reynolds base hit. Southern Utah???s Tom Ford completed the comeback in the eighth with his third home run of the season, a solo shot to left center to put SUU on top 8-7. Oakland battled back in the ninth to tie the score at 8-8 thanks to a pair of hits by Varon and Herriott off T-Bird reliever Chris Mower. Reynolds led off the ninth inning for Southern Utah with a double to deep right field, his fourth hit of the game, and after a two-out intentional walk issued to outfielder Tyler Hunter, Duvall stepped up and lined a Kyle Boehm (Rockford, Mich.) 0-2 pitch to left field to drive home Reynolds with the game-winning run to end it. Boehm gave up one earned run on two hits to pick up the loss while Chris Gardner improved his record to 4-2. In the finale, Varon and Herriott staked Oakland to 2-0 advantage in the first inning on consecutive two-out RBI-singles, while Oakland starter Steve Kniebbe (Bridgeport, Mich.) held Southern Utah without a hit for the first four innings with eight strikeouts. SUU hitters finally figured out Kniebbe in the fifth inning for three runs on four hits, started with a lead-off single by Shelby Guest. Southern Utah would add an unearned run in the sixth and Caleb Anderson pitched around seventh-inning trouble to pick up his first save of the season, helping Nick Oldroyd keep his record unblemished at 3-0. Kniebbe struck out 10 hitters in six complete innings, allowing just five hits and three earned runs but came up short to suffer his first loss of the season. Oakland finished with seven hits in game two, including two singles by lead-off hitter Brad Leach (Shelby Twp., Mich.).