LA MIRADA, Calif.-- Junior Billy Vopinek has been saving games on the hill for Biola all season long, but Thursday he did with his bat. Vopinek delivered a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Eagles to an 8-7 win over the Lancers in a GSAC game at the Eagles Diamond.

The win gives Biola a four-game season sweep over CBU and bumps the Eagles to 20-16 overall and 13-10 in GSAC play. They are 18-7 in their last 25 games after a 2-9 start. The Lancers drop to 21-16 overall, 12-14 in GSAC competition. 

Vopinek, who hit his first home run with the Eagles to pull the team within one in the eighth, finished the day going 3-for-4 with four RBIs and a pair of runs scored.

Biola opened the scoring in the bottom of the first when shortstop Nick Rotkowitz doubled with one out. Senior Hawkins Gebbers reached on an error before catcher Taylor Loop drove in Rotkowitz with a single. Loop's courtesy runner, senior David West later scored on an RBI single by one of Wednesday's heroes, Brent Opdyke. 

The Lancers got one back in the second when Bobby Burk walked, advanced to second on a ground out and scored on a Sharif Othman single. 

California Baptist turned the tide in the third, getting to Biola starter Calen Pennington. Cole Bullard doubled to left with one out. Then with two outs, Eddie Quevedo singled home Bullard before Burk doubled him home. 

The Eagles went to the bullpen, but to no avail, as a walk to Jake Johnson and another Othman single produced the fourth run of the ball game for CBU. A failed pick off attempt pushed across Johnson and gave the Lancers a three run lead. 

Biola put together their own two out rally in the bottom of the inning as Loop singled and his courtesy runner Phil Blazek stole second. Senior Brent Chavez drew a walk and both runners moved up on a wild pitch. A second wild pitch scored Blazek and moved Chavez to third before Opdyke and left fielder Chad Pace walked to load the bases. The fourth-consecutive walk of the inning was issued to Vopinek and forced home a run to pull the Eagles within one. However, the Eagles missed a golden opportunity and ended the inning with the bases loaded as Fayard flew out to deep center.

The Lancers regained some breathing room in the fourth as Brad Sharp singled and stole second. Zach Hedges, who started as pitcher before moving to designated hitter, belted a two-run homer. 

Those two runs were the only runs Biola reliever Adam McNaught allowed in 5.1 innings of masterful relief as the Eagles bullpen did not allow a run the rest of the way home. 

Opdyke led of the bottom of the fifth with his third home run of the year, just missing the scoreboard in right center field. Opdyke's homer was his second in as many days, both against the Lancers. 

The Lancers turned to reliever Sean Urena in the seventh and the junior kept the Eagles in check for the inning. However, Vopinek worked the count full to lead off the eighth before launching his first home run in a Biola uniform. 

After McNaught's outstanding performance kept the Eagles in the game, they would turn the ball over to Steven Alexander in the ninth. Sharp singled to start the inning and the Lancers looked to sacrifice him over. But a perfectly executed pitch out prevented Bullard from laying down a bunt and caught Sharp in a pickle between first and second where he was ultimately tagged out.

Biola's ninth inning rally started against Urena, as Chavez singled with one out. Opdyke walked and Blazek pinch ran. After Urena got a strike out for the second out in the inning, the Lancers turned to Julian Arballo to get the final out. However, his first pitch to Vopinek bounced to the back stop moving both runners to second and third. 

The Lancers chose to pitch to Vopinek with first base open and he made them pay by sending Arballo's 1-1 fastball off of the mound and into center field. Chavez scored easily and Blazek was able to beat the throw from center field to give Biola the 8-7 win. 

Vopinek's single gave Biola its second walk-off win of the year, both coming against California Baptist. Back on February 25th when the two teams last met in La Mirada, Hawkins Gebbers hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the tenth after sleeping off an illness in his dorm throughout most of the contest. 

Alexander picked up the win to improve to 3-2 while Urena was hung with the loss after allowing the winning run aboard to drop to 1-2. 

Despite some good defensive plays, the game was by no means a defensive clinic with the teams combining to commit four errors after CBU had committed four a day earlier. The pitchers combined to throw six wild pitches while there was one passed ball. 

Biola returns to conference play with a doubleheader in Santa Clarita on Saturday (Apr. 4), taking on No. 18 The Master's College beginning at Noon.