NEWBERG, Ore. – Sam Stahl tied George Fox University records for at bats in a game twice and for doubles in a game once as the Bruin, collecting 47 hits on the day, bludgeoned the Whitman College Missionaries 21-3 and 23-2 for a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader sweep Saturday afternoon here at Morse Field.

Stahl, the Bruins' shortstop who was the only George Fox starter to play all 18 innings, went 4-for-7 in each game, tying the record for most at bats in a game held by 12 others - but he is the first to do it twice.  In the nightcap, his three doubles tied a mark held by seven others, the last to do it being now-assistant coach Bo Thunell at Pacific on March 1, 2009, in the second game of a doubleheader.

The Missionaries touched Bruin starter Mark Putney (3-3) for a run in the 1st inning of the opener as Brian Kitamura walked, was sacrificed to second, and scored on Eric Tolleson's single up the middle.  That was the last hit Putney would allow until Kitamura singled with one out in the 6th.  The right-hander went 8.0 innings, allowing six hits in all and two runs, with a career-high 11 strikeouts and one walk.

The Bruin offense, meanwhile, tagged Whitman starter Tolleson (1-4) for six runs in the 2nd, the big blows two-run singles by Michael Woo and Jason Brown.  The Bruins continued to pour runs across against three Missionary hurlers, piling up 21 hits while scoring two in the 3rd, five in the 5th, four in the 6th, and three in the 8th. 

In addition to Stahl's four hits, one of them a double, and two RBIs, Woo had a 4-for-5 game with two RBIs and three runs scored.  Josh Burch had a double and a home run, his third, in three trips while scoring three times and knocking in four.  Brown and Seth Monson each had two hits and drove in three, Monson collecting a double and Brown scoring twice.  Dan Winterstein had two hits, one a double, and drove in two.  The Bruins also drew seven walks and got hit by pitches six times, stranding 16 runners.  Kitamura and Jay Richards had two hits each for the Missionaries.

The nightcap was more of the same.  Whitman got a run in the 1st off Brian Ranta (4-2) on a single by Pat Stauffer, a sacrifice, and an RBI single by Eric Korsmo, and an unearned run in the 3rd when Tolleson reached on an error and scored on a double by Jason Sease.  That was all Ranta would allow in 5.0 innings as he spaced four hits and fanned six without a walk.  Tyler Richwine and Brian Davis threw two scoreless innings each to finish up.

The Bruins went ahead in the last of the 1st as Burch and Stahl doubled and Brent Trask singled in Stahl.  In the 2nd, the Bruins bunched together five hits, the biggest a two-run single by Burch, two Whitman errors, a walk, a wild pitch, and two hit batsmen to plate eight run and blow the game open.  The Bruins scored multiple runs in every inning except the 5th, when they did not score at all. 

Stahl scored three runs and drove in six in the second game, leading a 26-hit attack.  Burch and Perry Knudson had three hits apiece, Burch scoring three and driving in two and Knudson, who had two doubles, scoring two and driving in three.  Woo, Trask, Winterstein, and Jay Kirchhofer had two hits, with Trask hitting his fourth home run of the season and knocking in three runs.  George Fox had eight doubles in all in the game.  Whitman collected only six hits in all and had no one with multiple hits.

George Fox (14-9, NWC 7-4) and Whitman (3-19, NWC 3-8) conclude their three-game NWC series here Sunday, with the game time moved up one hour to 11:00 a.m. due to expected back weather later on.