RUSTON, La. - Corona and Comeaux save the day to send Louisiana Tech into the CUSA Championship game. No. 1 Seed Louisiana Tech (45-16) defeated No. 5 seed Liberty (24-34) in walk-off fashion with a 6-5 victory in ten innings. 

Louisiana Tech and Liberty have faced each other six times in the last week, but this time, a spot in the CUSA Championship game was on the line. Liberty came with the hot offense, scoring after, putting up four runs on Tech via a two-run homer and a pair of RBI singles. In the fifth inning, Dalton Davis brought Tech alive with a solo home run to left field. Still trailing in the seventh inning, Adairus Myers cut the game two by reaching on a fielder's choice RBI. Later, Liberty scored a run in the eighth, but Tech brought the bats alive with an RBI single from Cole McConnell that sent Kasten Furr to score. Next, Jorge Corona beamed a ball down the right field line, earning him a two-RBI double and tying the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the eighth inning. After no team could score in the ninth inning, Grant Comeaux, in the tenth inning, would Tech the victory after picking up an RBI single.

Tech pitchers Ryan Harland, Nate Crider, and Greg Martinez combined for nine strikeouts Nate Crider (3-0) survived a bases-loaded jam to keep Tech in the game. Harland had a season-high four punchouts against Liberty. 

QUOTABLES
Head Coach Lane Burroughs:

On the game…
"I am kind of speechless, to be honest with you. I am trying to get through this without getting emotional. Grant Comeaux gets hit in the face and is bleeding everywhere then gets the game-winning hit after not coming out of the game. That is what our program is about. We played four games in 24 hours. Jorge is back there catching in this heat and humidity and they just never relented. Ethan Bates said he had one inning and he has given us everything he's got. It was not working and we were not leaving him out there to die. We got baseball next weekend and if we have to lose a game we have to lose a game. Ryan Harland and Nate Crider were unbelievable. They came out of nowhere. If you are going to win in the loser's bracket and come through you have to have guys step up. Ryan was outstanding. Nate came in with the bases loaded and no outs and got a huge punch out and a double play. You kind of felt it then. The crowd was into it and it kind of reminded me of three years ago. Liberty has a great team but I said last night I would not bet against us. The odds are stacked against us tomorrow. I am sure DBU is enjoying every minute of this but so be it. We are going to come play and give it everything we got. We won the regular season we might as well win the tournament. We are facing a really good team. It is the two best teams playing each other which is how it should be. We did it the hard way. I have no idea who is going to start. We will figure it out between now and then. I cannot tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of Louisiana Tech and to coach these guys.  They leave me speechless. We are playing our best ball when we need to. Forty-five wins. I am extremely proud right now."

UP NEXT 
No. 1 seed Louisiana Tech will face No. 2 DBU in the CUSA Championship at 1 PM on Sunday. 

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