NEWBERG, Ore. – For the 14th straight game, the George Fox University lineup piled up double-digit hits, but the pitching staff also allowed twin-figure hits to the Lewis & Clark College Pioneers, who stopped the Bruins' 10-game winning streak with a 6-3 win in Northwest Conference baseball Tuesday afternoon here at the Huston Sports Complex.

George Fox, which earlier in the day moved into the D3baseball.com top 25 at No. 19, slipped to 12-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference.  By taking the game Tuesday, which was the makeup of a game rained out on Sunday, after dropping the first two games of the series, Lewis & Clark climbed to 4-5 overall and 1-2 in the NWC.

The Bruins collected 11 hits off of Pioneer right-hander John Trupin (2-1), but left eight runners aboard and were stymied by a pair of Pio double plays and several line drives right at fielders.  Derek Blankenship, Josh Rapacz, and Zach Rapacz each had two hits for the Bruins, with Zach Rapacz driving in a run and scoring one. 

Tom Zarosinski (3-1), who entered the game with a 1.12 earned run average and 28 strikeouts in 24 innings this season, was not at his sharpest and fell victim to the bottom third of the Pios' order, which went a combined 6-for-7 against him.  Connor Harris and Sean Eberhart threw 3.1 innings of one-hit shutout relief, but the damage had already been done.

After Zach Rapacz scored on an error to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead in the 2nd, the Pios tied it in the home half on an RBI single by Ben Beck.  The Bruins regained the lead in the 3rd as Derek Dixon scored on a Zach Rapacz single and and Danny Clifford was awarded home on the same play when a return throw from center field ended up in the Lewis & Clark dugout.

The Pios went ahead with three in the 4th on an RBI single by Jacob Burton and a two-run double by Bradley Lezak.  They added two more in the 5th on a run-scoring double by Matthew Cathcart and Burton's 30-foot dribbler up the third-base line that went for an RBI infield hit. Trupin then shut the door on the Bruins' offense, holding them to two hits over the final four innings.

NEXT: George Fox plays at home for the first time this spring this weekend, hosting Pacific University Saturday in a doubleheader starting at 11:00 a.m. and in a single game Sunday at 12:00 noon … Lewis & Clark hosts Whitman College Monday in a 12:00 noon doubleheader that is not a part of the conference schedule.