LA VERNE -- Johnathan Brooks just keeps hitting and the Occidental baseball team continues to win close games.

The senior doubled off the wall in right center field in the top of the 14th inning, bringing in Walker Marks and Charlie Caccamo to break a 2-2 tie and lead the Tigers to a 5-2 extra-inning win at La Verne in the second game of a three-game series and first of a doubleheader with the Leopards on Saturday.

Oxy catcher Victor Munoz drove in the third run in the next at bat with a jam-shot single down the left-field line to score Brooks.

Scott Ericksen, who came in to pitch with a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth and got a crucial out to hold the 2-2 tie, didn't allow a hit, pitching 3.1 innings with a pair of strikeouts for his fourth win of the year.

Oxy's bullpen combined for 6.1 scoreless innings. Daniel Gowanlock pitched 2.1 innings and Will Nahmens got a pair of outs before handing the ball to Ericksen.

Oxy, which has won 8 of 9 one-run games and 2 of 4 extra-inning contests, got some good fortune to extend the game. The Tigers were down to their last out in the top of the ninth, trailing 2-1 with Jeffrey Johnson on third base. But La Verne pitcher Nick Byrd balked, dropping the ball before he had come set, allowing Johnson to get a free pass home for the tying run.

Byrd struck out Caccamo on his next pitch.

Byrd, who was mostly good in 6 innings of relief, also dropped a foul ball on the first-base side of the field that would have ended the top of the 14th. Marks got hit by a pitch two pitches later, Caccamo walked and Brooks delivered, extending his hitting streak to 22 games.

Brooks is red hot. He went 3 for 4 with a homer in the first game of the series on Friday and finished up 2 for 7 on Saturday.

The Tigers scored their first run in the second on an RBI-double by Marks that brought in Jonathan Wong.

Oxy starter Nolan Watson was solid in 7.2 innings of work, giving up just two earned runs and three hits, with five strikeouts.

The Tigers improve to 18-10 overall and 14-6 in SCIAC play, putting them in fourth place, just two games back in the loss column of the Leopards for first, after the first round of SCIAC games on Saturday.

Next Game: The Tigers and the Leopards finish the series with the second game of their doubleheader on Saturday afternoon.