MOBILE, Ala. – ULM baseball (13-10, 3-1 Sun Belt) dropped game one of the weekend series against South Alabama (15-7, 2-2 Sun Belt) via walk-off Friday night.
 
It's the first conference loss of the season, and it snaps the five-game winning streak the Warhawks brought into the series.
 
ULM was blanked in the top frame of the first, with a Bryce Balser walk being the only action. With two runners on and two outs at the bottom of the inning, Blake Guerin powered a three-run homer to left field, putting the Jaguars up 3-0. A throwing error and a base hit put runners at second and third, but a strikeout ended the inning, keeping the deficit at three.
 
At the bottom of the second, USA put a runner on second with a lead-off single and a stolen base. Following that, Adam Brodnax worked a strikeout and a double play to end the scoring threat. In the next frame, a leadoff single by Jackson Landry and a single by Garrett Weithorn produced two base runners with no outs. With a sacrifice bunt by Davis Mauzy bringing the runners over, Micah Dean grounded out to the shortstop to score a run. A Blaser single in the right field gap put another run on the board, making it a 3-2 game.
 
The Jaguars immediately responded in the bottom frame with a solo shot into right field by Puckett Stewart, resulting in a two-run margin. Both ULM and USA put two runners on base in the fourth inning, but neither team could score, continuing the two-run score going into five.
 
With a Mauzy single and two walks, the Warhawks loaded the bases with two outs, but a strikeout ended the inning and kept the away team down by two. A quick inning at the bottom of the fifth brought Brodnax through five frames, keeping the score 4-2.
 
With two outs at the top frame of the sixth, Jackson Landry hit an opposite-field home run, bringing ULM to within a single run with a 4-3 mark. At the bottom of the sixth, Justin Robinson entered in relief and blanked the Jaguars with 11 total pitches, keeping the Warhawks within a run.
 
With one out at the top of the seventh, Jake Haggard lined a triple into right field to get into scoring position. Marcus Aranda followed that up with a bloop single into shallow right field, bringing home Haggard and tying the game at 4-4. Robinson worked two scoreless frames at the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, with the latter being a five-pitch showing. The Warhawk bats came up empty in the top of the eighth and ninth innings, going three-up, three-down in both frames.
 
The Jaguars loaded the bases with no outs at the bottom of the ninth. ULM produced two strikeouts with a chance to get out of the jam, but a single perfectly placed at the right field line scored the winning run from third, giving game one to the home team.  
 
Aranda and Landry both produced multi-hit games while also adding an RBI. Dean and Blaser were the other two batters accounting for the runs scored.
 
The Warhawks are back tomorrow afternoon with first pitch scheduled for 2 p.m. in Mobile.