Box Score SPOKANE, Wash. – Tom Zarosinksi threw
eight shutout innings and the 23rd-ranked George Fox University
Bruins reached 20 wins for the 19th consecutive season with a 5-0
win over the Whitworth University Pirates, completing a three-game
Northwest Conference baseball series sweep Sunday afternoon here at
Merkel Field.
George Fox improved to 20-6 on the season and 10-5 in the
conference, while Whitworth fell to 6-17 overall and 3-9 in league
play. The Pirates have lost nine in a row.
Zarosinski (5-2) scattered six hits while striking out seven
with a pair of walks and lowering his season earned run average to
1.59. He was in serious trouble only once, when the Pirates
loaded the bases in the 3rd inning on a bunt single and two walks,
but he caught Jeremy Druffel looking to get out of the jam.
Sean Eberhardt pitched a scoreless 9th to complete the
Bruins' sixth shutout of the year.
The Bruins broke on top in the 3rd. Clay Mott walked,
Matthew Zeller was hit by a pitch, and Mott scored when Derek
Blankenship's potential double play grounder was thrown away
at second. Danny Clifford and Josh Rapacz followed with
back-to-back singles to score Blankenship.
Two more runs scored in the 4th when Kadyn
Nannini lined a double to left to score Zach Rapacz and
Mott. The Bruins' final run came in the 5th when
Clifford, who was 8-for-13 in the series, doubled and scored on a
Zach Rapacz single to center.
Spencer Ansett (1-2) took the loss for the Pirates, surrendering
six hits and all five runs while fanning three and walking
two. Taylor Isadore shut out the Bruins over five innings on
four hits, but the damage had already been done.
Clifford, Josh Rapacz, and Nannini all had two hits out of the
Bruins' total of 10. Garrett Hughes and Gerhard
Muelheims had two safeties each for the Pirates.
NEXT: George Fox hosts the University of Puget
Sound next weekend with a conference doubleheader on Saturday and a
single game on Sunday, starting both days at 12:00 noon …
Whitworth visits Lewis & Clark College for a conference series
with two on Saturday and one on Sunday, also at noon.