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CANYON, Texas  – WT scored seven runs in the fourth inning to battle back from a 4-0 deficit for a 13-4 victory over visiting Cameron to open the final regular season series of the year.  With the win, WT improved to 32-16 overall and 21-12 in Lone Star Conference play, while Cameron fell to 19-27 overall and 11-22 in league play. 
 
With the win, the Buffs remained in a tie for first in the league standings with Texas A&M-Kingsville as the Javelinas downed Tarleton State 7-2 Friday evening.  Both TAMUK and WT remained one game ahead of Angelo State as the Rams downed Eastern New Mexico 8-5.
 
The Buffs and Aggies will conclude the series Saturday at 1 p.m. at Wilder Park with the final doubleheader of the regular season.  Prior to the game, the Buffs will honor 13 seniors playing their final regular season doubleheader of the season at 12:40 p.m.
 
For the game, WT tallied 13 runs on 16 hits with four errors, while Cameron scored the first four runs of the game on nine hits with three errors.  Junior Matt Cole went 4 for 5 with two RBI and two runs scored, while senior Ryan March went 3 for 6 with two runs scored and a RBI.  Junior Aaron De La Paz went 1 for 4 with two runs scored and a team-high three RBI.
 
WT senior Tyler Gibson improved to 6-2 on the year going 6.1 innings, allowing nine hits, four runs – one earned, two walks and he fanned nine.  Dirk Masters (5-7) took the loss in 3.1 innings, allowing 10 hits, 10 runs – six earned, while walking five and striking out three.
 
Prior to the game, WT Director of Athletics Michael McBroom honored Buffalo head coach Matt Vanderburg with a commemorative baseball as he won his 200^th game at WT on Sunday at Tarleton State in a 2-1 decision in 10 innings.  He also won his 300^th career game in his 10^th season of coaching Friday evening.  Vanderburg now is 201-149 at WT and 300-216 overall.
 
Back-to-back-to back walks loaded the bases for the Buffs in the bottom of the first with one out.  Masters had seven strikes in his first nine pitches, but has thrown 23 balls in the last 25.  He got a pair of strikeouts to end the threat as he threw 38 pitches in the frame.
 
Cameron had back-to-back singles to begin the top of the second inning and then Brandon Right singled through the left side plating a run for a 1-0 lead.  A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third with nobody out.  The second error of the game on the Buffs plated the second run of the game on a fielder's choice by Tyler Palmer with one out.  Cameron's best hitter, Jonathan Reyes, reached on an error in the first and looked at strike three in the second for the second out of the frame.  An error plated two more runs for a 4-0 Cameron lead. 
 
A two out walk and back-to-back singles with a RBI single from Cole got the Buffs on the board in the bottom of the second for a 4-1 deficit.  A two RBI double from senior Justin Hargrove in the bottom of the third pulled the Buffs within 4-3. 
 
A single and a double to right center put runners at second and third with nobody out for the Buffs in the bottom fourth.  A hit batsman loaded the bases.  Junior Josh Day tied the game with a RBI single to left tying the game at four.  Senior Aaron Blair had a 3-1 count on Masters' 100^th pitch of the game and hit an infield single for a 5-4 WT lead.  De La Paz gave the Buffs a 7-4 lead with a two RBI single to center.  A ground out error plated another run for an 8-4 score with one away.  Following a ground out, senior Johnny Gaines, the ninth batter of the inning, singled to center scoring the ninth run of the game for WT.  March, who began the inning with a single, hit a RBI single for a 10-4 lead as Masters was relieved after 120 pitches in favor of Logan Fanning.  Fanning got out of the inning as the Buffs tallied seven runs on seven hits with an error.
 
A hit batsman and a walk put two on for Cameron in the top of the seventh.  Senior Kyle Olason relieved WT senior starter Tyler Gibson with one away.  A lineout to first for the unassisted double play by Blair ended the inning.
 
The Buffs added a run in the bottom of the seventh with a leadoff double from junior Matt Cole and a RBI single from Blair for an 11-4 lead.  A groundout scored another run for a 12-4 lead.  Cole hit a RBI single for a 13-4 lead.