Box Score PHOENIX --- A wild seventh inning which featured seven runs on three hits, four walks, two wild pitches and a costly error gave Arizona Christian a victory in the first game at its new on-campus field as the Firestorm upset No. 10 Biola 7-4 in the first game of a non-conference three-game series on Friday.

The loss drops the Eagles to 3-2 on the season while Arizona Christian picks up its second-straight win to improve to 2-6.

Biola seemed to be cruising through the first six innings, taking an early lead with three runs in the top of the fourth inning. Senior catcher Mike Lopez drove home a pair of runs to get the Eagles on the board, coming up big with a two-out, two-run single to make it 2-0. Benji Sutherland followed with a single up the middle and Biola was up three.

Biola starter Nick Turner was in control through the first six innings, allowing just two hits and two walk while facing just three over the mininum to that point. After a walk, strikeout and single to open the seventh, the Eagles went to the bullpen, which did not provide much relief. After a single drove home the first run for the Firestorm, a walk would load the bases with one out. Biola pitcher J.T. Mickelson would get a strikeout of the next hitter for the second out, but a pair of walks followed by a bases-loaded wild pitch gave Arizona Christian its first lead of the day.

It looked like the Eagles would get out of the inning after new reliever Alex Bos coaxed a ground ball from the next ACU hitter. However, that ball went through the wickets for a costly error which allowed two more runs to score and give the home team a 6-3 lead. The Firestorm added one more run on a double--just the third hit of the inning--to take a 7-3 lead to the eighth.

Biola mounted a rally in the top of the eighth with Nick Coyveau reaching on a leadoff double followed by a walk to first baseman Mac Sullivan. However, the Eagles couldn't move the runners any further. 

Biola would get one run in the top of the ninth as Lopez led things off with a single and Vinnie Fayard drove home pinch-runner Karl Stuck with the fourth run of the game for the Eagles. But that would be all for Biola.

The game was the first at Arizona Christian's new baseball field Firestorm Field, which opened to a lively crowd of 600 fans. The Firestorm will join the Golden State Athletic Conference next season as the first school from outside of California. 

The Eagles and the Firestorm close out the three-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 11:00 a.m. Arizona time (10:00 a.m. PT).