The Buena Vista baseball team suffered its first loss of the year in Saturday's doubleheader opener at Nebraska Wesleyan, but the Beavers did bounce back with a 3-1 victory in the nightcap to improve to 6-1.

Buena Vista let a pair of leads get away in the opener, as the Prairie Wolves scored the game-winning run in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the seventh on a passed ball with the bases loaded.

The Beavers took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning when Tanner Truesdell singled home Brandon Wessels for the game's first run before he later scored on a passed ball for a two-run cushion.

NWU rallied in the fifth with three unanswered runs to take its first lead of the day at 3-2.

BVU got one run back in the sixth on a one-out RBI double from junior Bennett Mann to square things up at 3-3.  He was later stranded at third as the Prairie Wolves got a groundout and fly out to end the frame.

NWU went down in order in its half of the inning before the Beavers got a runner in scoring position in the seventh, but a ground out to third from Brandon Wessels ended the threat.

After a groundout to begin the home half of the inning, the Prairie Wolves then worked back-to-back walks before getting a single to left center to loaded the bases before the passed ball ended the game.

Truesdell finished 2-for-4 at the plate with one double and the one RBI.  Mann's RBI double was his only hit of the contest as BVU finished with seven base knocks.

Kendall Hazel got the start and ended with a no decision after being charged with three runs on four hits over 4.2 innings.  He did strike out seven and walked three while throwing 82 pitches.  Cam Beatty suffered the loss after pitching 1.2 innings and being charged with one run on one hit, while striking out two and striking out two.

The Beavers got a solid pitching performance in the nightcap to go with some timely hitting to lift them to the bounce-back win in game two.

Truesdell again got the Beavers on the board first with a bases loaded walk in the third before Bryce Wessels added a sacrifice fly to make it a 2-0 game.  Truesdell later drove home his second run of the contest with a single back through the middle for an insurance run and a 3-0 BVU lead.

The Prairie Wolves pushed across their only run with a bases loaded walk in the ninth, but Lucas Hadway got out of the jam with a comebacker to end it.

Each team finished with three hits but combined for 10 walks.  Senior Neil Marshall drew two of those walks and scored two of the three BVU runs. 

Justin Lange turned in his second stellar performance in as many starts, working a career-high eight innings, allowing just two hits and striking out a career-best 11.  Hadaway came on to work the ninth for his second save of the year.

The Beavers (6-1) will look to go for the series win when the two teams play in a single nine-inning game on Sunday starting at 1:00pm.