Box
Score Game 1
Box
Score Game 2
PORTLAND, Ore. - Scoring four times in the 8th for a 10-6
first-game win and capitalizing on a seven-run 5th inning en route
to an 11-4 win in the nightcap, the George Fox University Bruins
completed a four-game sweep of the Lewis & Clark College
Pioneers in a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader Sunday
afternoon here at the Huston Sports Complex.
Lewis & Clark touched George Fox starter Preston Langeliers
for five runs in the first three innings in building an early 5-2
lead. After an RBI double by A.J. Brown and a run-scoring ground
out by T.J. Witkowski in the 1st, the Pioneers scored two unearned
runs in the 2nd. A one-out double by Chris Estrella knocked out
Langeliers in the 3rd, and Michael Orr singled off reliever Nick
Hedgecock to score Estrella.
The Bruins got an unearned run in the 1st and a run-scoring
ground out by Ryan Fobert in the 3rd, then added two more in the
4th on RBI singles by Pat Bailey and Cody Spencer. George Fox tied
it in the 5th when Dan Winterstein singled, stole second, went to
third on a wild pitch, and scored on a balk by Pioneer starter
Tucker Laurence.
The Pios regained the lead in the 6th on an RBI single by Sam
Holman, but the Bruins sent the game into extra innings by scoring
in the top of the 7th on consecutive one-out singles by
Winterstein, Todd Siler, and Kyle Seymour. The Bruins secured the
win in the 8th against Evan Fairmont (0-1) as Bailey led off with
his 3rd home run of the season and Kyle Kuenzi, Siler, and Seymour
delivered run-scoring singles.
Bailey went 4-6 with three runs scored and two RBI to lead the
Bruins' 14-hit attack, while Winterstein, Siler, and Seymour had
two hits apiece. Jordan Shibata and Ryan Kostecka had three hits
each for the Pioneers, who had 11 hits, and Holman had a pair of
safeties.
Hedgecock (1-0) got the win in relief for the Bruins, spacing
five hits over 5.2 innings and allowing only one run. He fanned
four and walked three.
Fairmont, who had closed the first game for Lewis & Clark,
started the second game and immediately surrendered three runs to
the Bruins in the top of the 1st. Bailey singled, Matt Wyckoff
doubled, and Fobert sent them both home with a double. Kuenzi's
infield single scored Fobert. The Pios tied it with three in the
3rd off Bruin starter Shane Dalgleish (3-0), although two of the
runs were unearned. Laurence singled in one run, Witkowski doubled
in another, and Neal Finch's single tied it.
The Bruins' outburst in the 5th pinned the loss on reliever
David La Douceur (0-3). Kuenzi was hit by a pitch, stole second and
third, and scored the tie-breaking run on Winterstein's single.
After a Siler double, Seth Monson's infield single scored
Winterstein, and Josh Burch's sacrifice bunt plated Siler. Spencer
hit an RBI single, then Wyckoff doubled in two, and he later scored
on an error.
Brett Tallman's sacrifice fly in the top of the 7th scored
Seymour, who had doubled and advanced on a ground out, with the
final Bruin run, offsetting an unearned run the Pios scored in the
bottom of the inning off reliever Brian Davis.
The Bruin collected 16 hits in the game, with two each by
Bailey, Spencer, Wyckoff, Fobert, and Kuenzi. Witkowski had two of
the Pioneers' six hits.
Dalgleish worked five innings for the win, allowing five hits
but only one earned run, and Davis pitched two innings of one-hit
relief with two strikeouts. The Pios went through five hurlers in
an effort to slow the Bruin bats down.
George Fox (10-3, NWC 7-1) hosts Willamette University Saturday
and Sunday in twinbills starting at 12:00 noon both days. Lewis
& Clark (3-9, NWC 1-7) visits Pacific Lutheran University those
same two days for doubleheaders, also at noon.
