Box Score WICHITA -- The Wichita State baseball team (11-9) used a four-run seventh to even the series with Long Beach State (7-10) with a 7-5 win over The Beach on a picture perfect Saturday afternoon at Eck Stadium.

Chris O'Brien led the Shockers with three RBI on a 2-for-4 afternoon at the plate. Tyler Grimes drove in two and scored twice while Taylor Brown scored twice and collected a pair of hits on the day.

Steve Tinoco went 1-for-4 with a pair of RBI, while Kellen Hoime went 2-for-3 with two RBI as well for the Dirtbags.

The Beach struck first after Jordan Casas led the game off by taking a 1-2 pitch through the right side and went to second on a sacrifice by TJ Mittelstaedt. The Dirtbag left fielder then advanced to third on a wild pitch by Shocker starter Charlie Lowell and scored on a ground ball to give LBSU the early 1-0 lead.

Lowell settled in to strike out the side in the second before the Shockers scored on a two-out single by Ryan Jones in the third, which brought home Taylor Brown after the freshman got on with a one-out single to right. Chris O'Brien ripped a ball back up the middle to give the Shockers their first lead of the day, bringing home Jones with a two-out single to hand WSU a 2-1 edge after three.

Tyler Grimes made it 3-1 after a one-out solo shot in the fifth, his first in a Shocker uniform, but the Dirtbags answered to regain the lead with a three-run sixth, using three singles to push back ahead, 4-3 after six.

Cody Lassley tied the game with one swing of the bat to start the Shocker seventh, taking a 1-1 delivery from LBSU starter Jake Thompson off the scoreboard in left to even the score at 4-4. The rally continued after Will Baez was hit by a pitch and then went to third after Taylor Brown floated a single just over the reach of Dirtbag shortstop Devin Lohman to give WSU runners on the corners with nobody out. Grimes delivered his second RBI of the day a batter later, ripping the first pitch from Thompson back up the middle to bring home Baez and give the Shockers a 5-4 lead.

That chased Thompson (0-4) from the game after six innings of work, with seven earned runs on nine hits while walking two and striking out four on 86 pitches in the losing effort.

Ryan Jones' sacrifice bunt advanced the runners into scoring position, and an intentional walk to Clint McKeever loaded the bases for O'Brien. The Shocker third baseman delivered with a two-RBI single back up the middle that stretched WSU's lead to 7-4 after seven innings.

Chance Sossamon came on to work the eighth in relief of Lowell (3-1) after the freshman starter threw 90 pitches in seven innings of work, giving up just four runs on seven hits while walking one and striking out six.

Sossamon gave up a run in the eighth but the freshman retired the Dirtbags in the ninth with little trouble to pick up the save.

The teams will decide the series with the rubber game at 1 p.m., Sunday afternoon at Eck Stadium.