The Yakima Valley baseball team dropped a heartbreaker in the first round of the NWAC Super Regional on Friday, falling to Clark 3-2 after leading in the bottom of the ninth with one out to go.

The Yaks grabbed a 2-0 lead in the third inning on a two-RBI single by Matty Morin, scoring Jay O'Neill and Travis Finney. The Penguins got one back in the fourth off starting pitcher Jackson Walker before drawing a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 2-2.

An infield single in the 10th off reliever Marcus Olson ended up being the difference as the Yaks failed to advance to the best-of-three Super Regional series against host Umpqua. YVC, the No. 4 seed out of the NWAC East, finished the season at 24-25 overall.

Walker pitched well against Clark, striking out nine and allowing six hits, two earned runs and three walks over nine innings of work. Finney, Morin and O'Neill each tallied two hits and Garren Gooler added a single as both teams finished with seven basehits on the afternoon.

Clark, the West's No. 3 seed, took the first game from Umpqua, the No. 2 team from the NWAC South. But Umpqua won the next two games to advance to this weekend's NWAC Championships. The East's top two teams, Spokane and Columbia Basin, are both still alive.