ANTHEM, Ariz. - Scoring five times with two out in the top of the 11th inning, the George Fox University Bruins picked up their first win of the 2010 baseball season with a 7-2 victory over the Occidental College Tigers on the second day of play in the Arizona Desert Classic Friday afternoon here at Boulder Creek High School.

George Fox sophomore right-hander Jeremy Cheney started and threw seven strong innings, allowing one run on only three hits with three strikeouts and one walk, but got a no-decision.  After a scoreless 8th by Travis Schroeder, Bruin relief ace Chad Jones took over for the 9th with a 2-1 lead.

Jones (1-0), who led the team in both wins (8) and saves (7) in 2009, the latter a new Bruin single-season record, surrendered the game-tying run on a squeeze bunt on a 2-2 count, but shut out the Tigers over the next two innings on no hits with three strikeouts to pick up the win.

Colton Thomas, who had his second three-hit game, was on first with a single and two outs when the Bruins exploded in the top of the 11th.  Derek Aldrich was hit by a pitch and Perry Knudson walked before Sam Stahl singled in Thomas to break the deadlock.  Dan Winterstein followed with a two-run single, and Seth Anderson delivered another run with a base hit.  When Anderson' safety was muffed in the outfield, Winterstein was able to score all the way from first.

George Fox banged out 12 hits in the game, Stahl joining Thomas in the three-hit column and Anderson collecting two.  The Bruins evened their record at 1-1 while the Tigers fell to 2-3 overall and 0-2 in the Classic.    

NOTES: George Fox was ranked 18th in the Collegiate Baseball pre-season poll and 19th in the D3baseball.com poll ... The Bruins will start freshman right-hander Clay Gartner Saturday when they face the University of La Verne at 10:00 a.m. ... La Verne's Leopards are 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the Classic after knocking off Whitman College Friday 9-2 ... The Bruins' final game in the Classic is Sunday at 2:00 p.m. vs. Whittier College.