NEWBERG, Ore. - Chad Jones set a George Fox University record with his 11th career save in a 6-5 first-game win, but the University of Puget Sound Loggers took advantage of uncharacteristic wildness by Bruin hurlers to post a 10-6 second-game victory in a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon here at Morse Field.

Jones came in to start the 9th inning of the opener with a 6-4 lead and promptly surrendered singles to Dakota Resnik and Matt Cox, bringing up Mark Rockey, the conference's top home run hitter with 11.  The Bruins' closer fanned the big slugger for the first out, but Casey Coberly singled to load the bases and Chaz Kramer hit a sacrifice fly to left to make it a one-run game.  Jones then got Will Mentor on a fly to center for his fourth save of the season and 11th of his two-year Bruin career, breaking a tie with southpaw Nick Hedgecock, who had 10 from 2005-08.

The win went to Bruin starter Mark Putney (5-3), who scattered six hits with six strikeouts and five walks over 6.2 innings, allowing only one run.  He left in the 7th with a 5-1 lead, but the Loggers had the bases loaded and two outs and Rockey at the plate.  Reliever Travis Schroeder induced the Loggers' cleanup hitter to hit into a 6-4 force, but gave up three runs in the 8th on an RBI single by Jason Powell and a two-run homer by Stephen Kelsey, his first of the year, that cut the George Fox lead to 5-4.

The Bruins scored an unearned run in the home 8th that made it 6-4 and turned out to be critical.  Eric Gantenbein reached on a one-out error by Jarvis Nohara at short, went to third on Seth Anderson's double down the right-field line, and scored when Nohara mishandled Nate Hickok's grounder.

George Fox built a 5-0 lead through four innings against Tim Fogarty (0-3) on the slugging of Brent Trask, who hit a solo shot in the 2nd and a two-run blast in a four-run 4th, giving him six on the season.  Anderson had an RBI single and Josh Burch a sacrifice fly in the 4th as well.  Puget Sound got its first run off Putney in the 6th on a sacrifice fly by Coberly.

Trask and Anderson had three hits each out of the Bruins' total of 10 in the game.  The Loggers had 12 hits in all, with Coberly getting three and Resnik, Powell, and Kelsey two apiece.

In the nightcap, the Loggers built a 7-0 lead through four innings against Bruin starter Jeremy Cheney (3-2) and reliever Adam Weber despite getting only five hits.  They were able to use seven walks and a hit batsman, however, along with some timely hits against a George Fox staff that was sixth in the nation in fewest walks per nine innings coming into the series.

Coberly, who was 3-for-3 in the game and 6-for-7 in the twinbill, singled in the Loggers' first run in a three-run 1st, while Kramer had an RBI single and Mentor an RBI ground out.  Andrew Grady hit a two-run double in the 3rd, and the Loggers added two more in the 4th on a bases-loaded walk to Kramer and an RBI single by Mentor.  Coberly hit a long home run to dead center, his first, in the 6th, and added a sacrifice fly in the 7th following a Resnick RBI double to close out the UPS scoring.

George Fox had a pair of three-run innings in the 4th and the 8th.  Josh Rapacz had an RBI single, Anderson scored on a balk, and Dan Winterstein doubled in a run in the 4th.  In the 8th, Rapacz hit a two-run double and Winterstein an RBI single, all three being unearned off reliever Nathan Aguiar. 

Matt Robinson (5-2) started and went 5.0 innings for the win, spacing eight hits with four strikeouts and a walk.  Colby Robinson closed with a 1-2-3 9th in a non-save situation.  Cheney got the loss for the Bruins, allowing four hits, five walks, and five runs while fanning three in 3.0 struggling innings. 

Gantenbein had three hits, and Rapacz and Winterstein two each out of the Bruins' 11 safeties in the second game.  Rapacz scored twice and drove in three.  Coberly's three hits produced three RBIs and three runs scored for the Loggers, who also got two hits each by Resnik, Kramer, and Grady.  UPS had 13 hits in all. 

George Fox, which had a nine-game winning streak snapped in the second game, is now 19-10 overall and 12-5 in the conference, falling a game-and-a-half behind first-place Pacific Lutheran University and a game behind second-place Linfield in the standings (PLU and Linfield swept Whitworth University and Lewis & Clark College respectively).  Puget Sound is now 12-15 overall and 7-7 in the league.  The teams conclude their three-game series Sunday with a single game at 12:00 noon in Newberg.