Team Thomas ended the MSU baseball best-of-five Fall World Series in four games Monday with a 3-1 victory at Hammons Field.

    Team Thomas came back from a 1-0 deficit by scoring a run in the third and two in the fourth. Trailing 1-0 after Team Mattson’s Trevor Rogers gave his team the lead with a two-out RBI single in the second, Team Thomas tied it when Christian Overstreet reached on an infield single and worked his way around the bases to score on a wild pitch.

    Then in the fourth, freshman Travis McComack led off with a single and scored on Curt Courtwright’s sac bunt attempt that was thrown into center field on the force try at second and then past the third baseman as McComack tried to take third, allowing him to cross the plate. With Courtwright on third later in the inning, Chris Playter was caught in a run down between first a second and bought enough time for the junior shortstop to scamper home and give Team Thomas a 3-1 lead.

    Freshman Ryan Modglin got the start for Team Thomas, pitching five innings and striking out five while allowing a run on five hits. Pat Doyle pitched the final four scoreless frames and struck out five, including an inning-ending K in the eighth with runners on second and third.

    For Team Mattson, Brant Combs pitched three innings of hitless relief with four strikeouts, and Aaron Meade finished the game off with two more scoreless frames while fanning three. Offensively, Zak Swyhart went 3-for-4 with a walk, Dallas Hord was 2-for-5 and Rogers had two hits as well. Freshmen accounted for six of Team Mattson’s eight hits in the game.