Brett Kinsel met Michael Martin on his way to the mound and told him two things.

“I told him to shut them down and get it done,” Kinsel said. “I knew he would.

“This is the only team I’ve been on that never gives up. We keep battling until it’s over.”

Martin, the Alvin (Texas) Community College relief pitcher, inherited a tough situation — runners on the corners, no outs — in the top of the eighth and handled it with a no-worries manner. Martin got a strikeout and a double play, to lift the Dolphins to an 11-8 victory in the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series on Monday afternoon at Suplizio Field.

“It was just another inning,” Martin said. “In situations like that, you can’t get to high. You’ve got to have confidence in your defense to make plays.

“You’ve got to trust your stuff.”

Martin made good on Kinsel’s request, keeping the Dolphins’ precious one-run lead intact.

“I don’t know what I can say,” Alvin coach Bryan Alexander said. “That was not an easy situation to get out of.”

Once it got out of the inning, Alvin (41-16), like it has so far in the tournament, responded.

Pablo Salinas singled and scored on Chris Herrmann’s home run to left field.

Martin gave up a walk and a hit in the top of the ninth, but closed the game and picked up a save. Center fielder Blake Lynd secured it with a running catch for the final out.

“We played awful,” Chipola coach Jeff Johnson said. “They fight you and battle you and put the ball in play. We said we can’t walk anybody and make errors and we did that all day. Our offensive execution was awful, but give them credit. They out-battled us and beat us.”

No. 17 Chipola (45-13-1) did what Alvin did to No. 2 Walters State. Berroa led off the game with a single, stole second base and scored on a wild pitch.

Alvin wasn’t fazed.

Blake Lynd led off the bottom of the first with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Pablo Salinas singled, then Chris Hermann walked to load the bases. With two outs, Richard Porfirio singled home Lynd.

Chipola starter Ryan Chaffee, who broke his foot earlier this season, sprained his right foot breaking to back up a throw. After trainers looked at his ankle, he tried to pitch again, but threw wildly, allowing Salinas to score. Chaffee, the Most Outstanding Pitcher of last year’s World Series, was pulled.

His replacement, Matt Jackson, walked the bases loaded, then walked the next batter to bring home a third run.

The Dolphins pushed a run across in the second on a Salinas double and one in the third on a Mark Hudson RBI single.

Chipola’s Adam Duvall hit a three-run home run in the top of the fourth, but Alvin turned up the heat in the bottom half.

Jesse Husband walked, then Salinas reached on an error. Hermann’s sacrifice fly scored Husband the Ryan Priest singled. Porfirio singled home Salinas, then Clay Puckett singled to left field, scoring Priest, but Porfirio, who was right behind Priest, was thrown out at home.

“We’ve played like that all year long,” Alexander said. “If we’re going to win, we’re not going to win in a home run contest. We’re going to win on them making mistakes.”

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E-mail Allen Gemaehlich at agemaehlich@gjds.com.