MEMPHIS, Tenn. - RV/RV Hendrix dropped Saturday's regular-season finale to Rhodes (Tenn.), 18-16, despite winning two of three games in the series at Stauffer Field for the first time since 2016. The Orange and Black fell to 12-1 this season when scoring double-digit runs.

Hendrix (27-13, 12-9 SAA) jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a Drake Job bases-loaded walk and Joseph Watts three-run double to left center. 

The Warriors trailed 6-5 until recording a four-spot in the fifth. Tyler Webb had a RBI on a ground out. With the bases loaded, Owen Shaw scored on a wild pitch. Zach Marriott hit a two-run double to left field to put his team in front 9-6.

Rhodes (23-16-1, 12-9 SAA) retook the lead, 10-9, in the bottom of the seventh on a John McNair RBI double to left center. 

A Job two-run double started a three-run eighth for Hendrix. A Shaw RBI double to left center put his team back on top, 12-11, but the Lynx countered with seven runs in the bottom of the frame, including a Dante Messina (2) three-run homer to left center.

In the ninth, the first six Warriors' batters reached base via three walks, two base hits and a hit batter. A Juan Pablo Leon bases-loaded walk cut the deficit to five. A Job RBI single through the right side preceded a Hogan Ralston RBI single through the left side to make the score 18-15. Shaw's sacrifice fly drove in a run, but with runners on first and second and only one out, a strikeout and fielder's choice ended Hendrix's comeback attempt.

Messina was 4-for-6 with three RBIs. Gunnar Vachris was 4-for-5. Malcolm Rohlfing drove in four.

Three Lynx each drove in two. Three Rhodes players scored three times apiece, while another three each scored twice.

Jacob Dubs started on the mound for the Lynx but was chased after recording just one out, surrendering four earned runs on two hits with three walks. John Fears (7-2) pitched 3.1 innings of relief, allowing six runs, three earned, on four hits with two strikeouts, four walks and a hit batter. Noah Roland threw 4.1 innings out of the bullpen, giving up five earned runs on four hits with three strikeouts, three walks, two wild pitches and three hit batters.

Job ended 4-for-5 with four RBIs  Marriott and Shaw each batted 2-for-4 and plated two. Watts had three RBIs. Leon and Adam Bland each scored three times, while Job, Marriott, Rail Gilliam and Rally Miller each touched home twice.

John Henry Fowler (3-1) entered in the bottom of the eighth and gave up four runs, one earned, on three hits. Zach Orlando allowed one hit in a third of an inning of relief.