With the tying run 90 feet from home and the winning run at first, Jayson Langfels (Eastern Kentucky) came off the bench to pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth with the Beetles trailing 2-1. On a 1-1 offering, Langfels took a fastball over the right-center field wall; a three-run homer to win the game. It's the seventh walk-off homerun in team history and the first since Brian Harrison's (Furman) PH walk-off against Brainerd in mid-July 2008. The Beetles are now 3-1 after sweeping the River Bats.

Green Bay's John Semel (Chapman) had three hits, five RBI, and three runs scored in the Bullfrogs' 19-16 loss to the Honkers.

Pepperdine's Aaron Gates thrilled the crowd at La Crosse's Copeland Park by hitting a three-run game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning against Thunder Bay.

Eric Marzec doubled and tallied five RBI in his opening night 4-for-5 outing for the St. Cloud River Bats against the Brainerd Lakes Area Lunkers. The Bats held off the Lunkers for a 10-8 victory. Marzec, a right-handed hitting centerfielder from Youngstown State University, also scored one run in the victory. Two of his RBI came on a double in the first and two others on a single in the eighth inning.