An eight-run fourth inning by No. 2-seed Dallas College-Richland broke a 7-7 tie against the No. 7-seeded Chaparrals and the Thunderducks went on to a 15-7 victory that was called in the seventh inning during opening-round play Saturday afternoon at the NJCAA Division III Baseball World Series in Auburn, N.Y., on Saturday.
 
The Chaps (31-17 overall) had their 15-game winning streak snapped and they now play in the loser-out bracket against No. 6-seed St. Cloud Tech, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday.
 
SCTC (32-13) lost to Dallas College-Eastfield 7-2 in the opener.
 
"We absolutely can compete with everyone else here,'' interim head coach Matt Gould said. "We did well in all other areas of the game, but our pitching wasn't there today. I know we're not going to have two days in a row where we don't have it on the mound. We take care of all the other stuff and we'll be all right (tomorrow).''
 
COD scored four runs in the top of the fourth to tie the game at 7-7, but in their half of the inning, the Thunderducks batted around for the second time. They sent 13 to the plate, scoring eight runs and effectively ended the game.
 
"The first four innings of the game, we had good at-bats,'' Gould said. "We hit the ball hard and were aggressive on the bases and made them make mistakes. But in the bottom of the inning, we just didn't throw strikes. We throw more strikes, we get out of the inning a lot faster than we did. I'll take my odds in a back-and-forth game, but the inning just lasted too long.''
 
No. 2 Dallas College-Richland 15, Chaparrals 7 7 innings (BOX SCORE)

• COD grabbed a 2-0 lead to open the game, thanks to Joe Pender's RBI-single that scored leadoff hitter Quinn Flanagan (walk)
• Mark Mennecke put COD up 2-0 on his sac fly to left that brought home Pender
• Sophomore Filip Milatovic had his 13-game hitting streak come to an end, going 0-for-4
• Up 2-1, No. 9 hitter Jake Pauley's two-out double brought in Jack Wade, who led off with a single in the second
• Dallas-Richland scored five runs on six hits in the second for a 6-3 lead
• The Thunderducks extended the lead to 7-3 on an infield ground-out in the third
• COD roared back, scoring four runs on four hits and tied the game at 7-7 in the top of the fourth
• Hudson Williams' one-out, two-run double down the left-field line scored Jack Wade (single) and Michael Morgan (walk)
• Pauley then followed with a run-scoring single that scored Williams
• One batter later, Pender delivered a single and scored Pauley on a subsequent error from the pitcher
• But Richland answered with it eight-run, four-hit inning giving it a 15-7 lead
• Pauley, Wade and Pender led with two hits
• Both Williams and Pauley led in RBI with two
• On the mound, RHP starter A.J. McEneany was charged with 11 hits, and 11 runs (all earned) in three innings
• All told, COD gave up 16 hits, all 15 runs were earned with six base on balls, four hit batters and just four strikeouts