Box Score PORTLAND, Ore. - Andrew Traver
went 3-for-4 with two home runs, including a grand slam, and six
RBIs, leading the Lewis & Clark College Pioneers to their first
win of the season, an 8-3 romp over the visiting George Fox
University Bruins, in Northwest Conference baseball action Sunday
afternoon here at the Huston Sports Complex.
Lewis & Clark jumped on Bruin right-hander Tom Zarosinski
(1-2) in the home half of the 1st. Geoff Wertz beat out a
single, a topped roller up the third base line, and went to second
when Zarosinski throw the ball away at first. Two ground
outs, the second by Michael Ball, scored Wertz. Consecutive
singles by Corey Davis, Nick Lavin, and Mike Kinkenon scored
another.
George Fox got one run back in the 2nd on a single by Timothy
Williams, a stolen base, and an RBI single by Zac
Israel. In the L&C 3rd, after the Pios loaded
the bases on a single by Ball, a walk to Davis, and a single by
Kinkenon, Traver unloaded them with an opposite-field shot to
right, his second home run of the series and third of the
season. He hit yet another in the 6th, a two-run drive to
right-center with Kinkenon aboard on an error, for the final
Pioneer runs.
The Bruins picked up a run in the 6th when Jared Chase singled,
stole second, went to third on a bad relay throw after a foul out
to right, and scored on a Josh Rapacz single. Their final run
came in the 9th on Nick Benish's first home run in college, a
opposite-field line drive just inside the right-field foul
pole.
Ball (1-4) went the distance for the Pios, scattering 10 hits
with six strikeouts and no walks. Zarosinski struck out five
and walked one, the only walk allowed by Bruin hurlers in the
series, but was touched for seven of the Pios' nine hits in
only 3.0 innings.
Rapacz, Benish, and Israel had two hits apiece for the
Bruins. Kinkenon joined Traver in the multi-hit show for the
Pios with a pair of singles.
NEXT: George Fox (6-9, NWC 2-1) hosts Pacific
University for a three-game conference series next weekend, with a
doubleheader on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. and a single on Sunday at
12:00 noon. However, due to extremely wet conditions in the
Bruins' Morse Field outfield, the games may be moved
elsewhere ... Lewis & Clark (1-13, NWC 1-5) plays four
games in Phoenix, Ariz., next weekend, starting with a doubleheader
against St. Mary's College of Minnesota Saturday at 8:00 a.m.
Mountain time.