Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MEMPHIS-Game one was a marathon. Game two featured a big inning. But both ended the same way, with the Christian Brothers Universty Bucs sweeping visiting Union 3-2 in 15 innings and 7-2 in game two.

The opener was the second-longest game in school history for CBU (10-24, 3-17 GSC). Neither team would score in the first seven innings, but Union (11-23, 4-14) broke through in the top of the eighth on a double and a single, but CBU hurler Jake Garbuzinski (Memphis, Tenn./Christian Brothers HS) drew a double-play ball to escape the threat.

The Bucs answered in the bottom of the inning. Tyler Burnett (Germantown, Tenn./Germantown HS) walked, and Mickey Smith (Arlington, Tenn./Arlington HS) was hit by a pitch. With one out, Justin Neal (Southaven, Miss./Southaven HS) drew another walk to load the bases, and Charles Kelly (Bartlett, Tenn./Bartlett HS) hit a sacrifice fly to score Burnett to tie the game.

Neither team could score again until the 12th inning. Union used a walk and two singles, all with two outs, to plate a go-ahead run. The Bucs countered with a two-out rally of their own in the bottom of the inning. Mac Cooley (Bartlett, Tenn./Horn Lake HS) hit a two-out double down the right field line, and pinch-runner Trey Keppen (Germantown, Tenn./Germantown HS) scored on a Justin Neal (Southaven, Miss./Southaven HS) single through the right side.

The Bucs finally ended the game in the bottom of the 15th inning after escaping danger in the top of the 15th when Union left runners on second and third. Josh Hopkins (Olive Branch, Miss./Southern Baptist Educational Center) led off with a single. After Casey Goodwin (Memphis, Tenn./Christian Brothers HS) sacrificed him to second, Caleb Goodwin (Shreveport, La./Evangel Christian Academy) hit a fly ball into the gap in right-center to score Hopkins for the victory.

Garbuzinski pitched a gem, allowing one run as he scattered 11 hits and two walks against six strikeouts over 10 innings. He is the first CBU hurler to pitch 10 innings since Charlie Soukup threw 10 innings at Ouachita Baptist in 2007. Michael Spain (Huron, Tenn./Lexington HS) followed, allowing one run on five hits and a walk with three strikeouts in five innings of relief.

Cooley, Neal, Hopkins and Caleb Goodwin collected two hits each for the Bucs.

The game came nearly eight years to the day after CBU's most recent 15-inning game, a 12-11 win over Union Apr. 4, 2006. The game finished one inning shy of the school record for longest game, a 6-4 loss in 16 innings against Trevecca Apr. 27, 1979.

In game two, Union took an early lead when Kyle Bryan hit a two-run double to left field in the top of the fourth inning, after a single and a hit batter.

The Bucs cut the lead in half in the bottom of the inning. Smith doubled and moved to third on a Cooley single. Neal hit a sacrifice fly to score Smith. After a pair of walks loaded the bases, Union turned a double play on a sharply-hit grounder to escape the jam with the lead.

The Bucs finished them off an inning later. After a Casey Goodwin leadoff single, Burnett singled and Smith walked to load the bases. Cooley hit an RBI single, an dafter a passed ball, Neal hit a two-run single. A hit batter and a walk loaded the bases again. Joe drove in a run when he reached on an error, and Casey Goodwin hit a sacrifice fly to give CBU a 7-2 lead after five innings.

Relief pitcher Peyton Sanderlin (Collierville, Tenn./Collierville HS) shut down the Bulldogs, allowing just two baserunners, one on a hit batter and one on a fielding error, in three and two-thirds innings as he moved his record to 2-4. Cooley went 2-for-3 in the game. Neal drove in three runs, and Smith scored twice.

The Bucs and Bulldogs meet again Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. for the final game of the series.