TBC Eagles Baseball fell behind 11-0 early but did not give up. The Eagles rallied to eventually take the lead, but the NAIA Dordt University Defenders reclaimed the lead late and held on to win 16-15.

Dordt scored 11 runs in the bottom of the second, but that did not keep the Eagles from soaring. The comeback started immediately with an 8-run top of the third that featured RBI from Larson Lott (ground ball), Seth Reeves (single), Nate Nogueras (single), Dominic Gattinella (ground ball), Logan McGann (3-run triple), and Ryan Onkst (double). By the end of the inning, TBC had cut the deficit to 11-8.

Dordt, though, added single unearned runs in each of their next two at bats to extend the lead to 13-8. Trinity fought back with three more in the fifth. Jacob Burke doubled home Gattinella (double), McGann singled in Burke, and McGann soon after scored from second on a failed pick-off throw that went astray. At that point, it was 13-11.

Dordt added 1 more in the sixth, but Trinity was still not done. A pair of two-run innings followed. Williams and Reeves each drove in a run in the seventh to make it 14-13, and the Eagles took the lead in the eighth when McGann (double) and Onkst (single) each had RBI hits.

However, a two-out rally led to a two-run double from Dordt's Matthew McMillian that put the Defenders back in front 16-15. Mason Price pitched a perfect bottom of the ninth to win it for the Defenders. Braeden Biggar hit a grand slam to cap Dordt's big second inning. 

McGann highlighted the offense with a 5-for-6, 5 R, 5 RBI, performance. Gattinella scored 3 times, and Burke scored 2. Onkst, Williams, Reeves, Nogueras, and Burke each had 2 hits as part of TBC's total of 18.

The Eagles will finish play at the Russ-Matt Invitational with a double-header against NAIA Northwestern University of Iowa beginning at 12:00 noon. After 10 days off, the next games are at home against NAIA Florida Memorial University and NJCAA Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in the Bold City Classic on March 18.