EVANSVILLE - Closing out the weekend, the University of Evansville baseball team battled back to tie the game in the ninth before falling 6-4 in extra innings to Ohio on Sunday afternoon at German American Bank Field at Charles H. Braun Stadium in Evansville.

"Tough weekend winning the first two and then dropping the next two. Ohio had a great plan at the plate today with 19 hits," said Aces head baseball coach Wes Carroll. "We had a lot of pressure pitches on the mound to even make it a ballgame. Tanner Craig delivers a big hit to tie it, but couldn't get that knockout punch to win the game. We will learn a lot about this club as we go on the road for a lot of March."

Ohio's offense had the advantage in the early innings in a game where the Bobcats tallied 19 hits. After pushing one across in the top of the second on a sacrifice fly, Ohio added three more runs in the fourth, giving the Bobcats a 4-0 advantage. Evansville would answer with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the fourth on an RBI double from Brendan Hord and a run-scoring sacrifice fly from Danny Borgstrom to halve the lead.

Over the final three innings, Evansville's offense was powered by Tanner Craig. In the seventh with Evan Berkey on second, Craig ripped a double to right center, scoring Berkey and getting the Aces within one.

Down to their final out in the ninth, Craig did it again, looping a double again to right center that scored Berkey all the way from home to tie the game at four and force extra innings. In extras, Ohio's offense woke up, driving in a pair of runs and held on defensively to grab the 6-4 win.

Evansville hits the road to start what will be a 13-game road trip at Belmont on Wednesday with a 4 PM first pitch in Nashville, Tenn.