PENSACOLA, Fla. - Casey Mir, a senior second baseman from Menomonee Falls, Wis., drove in what became the winning run on a two-out RBI single in the top of the sixth inning as the Carroll University baseball team defeated Grinnell College 5-4 in a nonconference game as part of Studer's Blue Wahoos Challenge on Sunday afternoon.
It was the final contest of a six-game Florida road trip for Carroll, which ended on a high note to finish Spring Break 1-5 and improve to 4-6 overall.
The Pioneers earned their third one-run victory of the season with the performance.
Brody Ferko, a freshman left fielder from Yorkville, Ill., scored the game-winner after being hit by a pitch and advancing to second as the result of a balk.
Following a scoreless opening three innings, Carroll claimed a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth as Trevor Benz delivered an RBI single and Benton Holly scored on a balk.
The Pioneers extended the lead to 3-0 in the fifth on a run-scoring single by Joey Appino. 
Grinnell, which dropped to 2-4 overall, scored a single run in the bottom of the fifth to trim the deficit to 3-1.
Carroll collected two runs on one hit in the decisive sixth, the first coming as Benz scored as the result of a costly balk.
Grinnell scored three runs in the sixth but couldn't get any closer, managing only three hits over the course of the final three innings.
Appino went 3-for-4 to power a nine-hit offensive attack for Carroll, which snapped a five-game losing streak. 
Benz followed with two hits with Ferko, Holly and Justin Baker each collecting one hit.
Carroll utilized six pitchers including starter Andrew Stekiel, Brody Meyer, Daniel Kalinowski, Connor Kelly, Andy Buskohl and Connor Nolen.
Meyer, a 6-foot-1 sophomore right-hander from Jacksonville, North Carolina, earned a victory by yielding just one run on three hits with one strikeout and one walk in working the fourth and fifth.
Nolen pitched the final 1 1/3 innings to earn a save, allowing no runs on one hit highlighted by a game-ending, victory-clinching strikeout.