For the first time this season the Buena Vista baseball team trailed in a game, but the Beavers would overcome a 5-0 deficit to score a late run and edge Carroll University (Wis.), 6-5, on Tuesday morning to wrap up its season-opening trip to Tucson, Ariz.

The Pioneers scored single runs in the first and second innings before adding two more in the third and one more in the fourth to take the 5-0 lead.

BVU, which combined to score 25 runs on Monday, was held in check early on but wasn't going to be held scoreless for long. They began to chip away at the lead with two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings. 

Bryce Wessels put the team on the board with an RBI ground out while Eric Gurbacki followed with run-scoring single.  A pair of RBI ground outs put BVU within a run through five innings.

Michael Zellar evened things up with his RBI single in the sixth before Tanner Truesdell put the Beavers in front for the first time with his double, scoring Brandon Wessels.  Truesdell now has a team-leading eight RBI on the year.

The Pioneers (1-3) threatened in the eighth, loading the bases with no one out, but senior Lucas Hadaway then entered the game and worked out of the jam, getting a strikeout and a big assist from rightfielder Bennett Mann, who caught a fly ball and threw a bullet to home plate in time to gun down the runner trying to score, completing the inning-ending double play.

Hadaway then came back out for the ninth and worked around a two-out double en route to his first save of the year.

Truesdell also tripled in the game and finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored as Gurbacki went 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.  Brandon Wessels doubled twice and scored a pair of runs, as BVU finished the game with 13 hits, including six for extra bases.

Ian Grigsby made his first start since 2013 after serving as the team's closer last season.  He worked the first three innings and was charged with four runs on five hits, while walking three and striking out one.

Jake Lewis came on and was solid in relief, working the next three innings, allowing just one run and scattering four hits while also striking out four.  Cam Beatty surrendered two hits and two walks over his one inning of work before Hadaway allowed one hit and struck out two in his two innings.

Buena Vista is now 5-0 on the year and will travel to Nebraska Wesleyan this upcoming Saturday and Sunday for a three-game weekend series.  First pitch of Saturday's doubleheader is slated for 1:00pm.