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LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Starter Chris Baek allowed just one run on seven hits over six innings while catcher Mike Lopez provided much of the offense with three hits and two RBIs as Biola downed Vanguard University 6-1 in the second game of a GSAC series on Friday afternoon on Eagles Diamond.

The Eagles improve to 11-12 on the season and to 5-5 in conference play while the Lions suffer their sixth-straight loss and fall to 8-8, 0-6 in GSAC action.

Baek had another solid start, scattering seven hits and allowing just a first inning run while striking out five over the course of six inning. The junior, who is coming off Tommy John surgery, continued to improve his velocity and consistantly hit the upper 80s and spotted his breaking pitches well to improve to 3-1 on the season.

Meanwhile, Lopez had the hot bat for the Biola offense, going 3-for-4 with two RBIs in the contest. Until late in the game, he had three of the Eagles' five hits and drove in two of the team's first four runs.

Vanguard got the early drop on the Eagles, as Brandon Young drove in a run with a single to center to make it a 1-0 game in the top of the first inning.

Biola answered right back in the bottom of the first, taking advantage of a Vanguard error to plate two. Vinnie Fayard reached on an error with two out and Nick Covyeau made the Lions pay, crushing a home run to dead center field to make it 2-1.

The Eagles would tack on one more in the bottom of the second. Mac Sullivan led off the frame with a walk and moved to second on a great sacrifice bunt by Michael Annunziata. Lopez then stepped up and drilled a ball off the top of the left-field fence to bring home Sullivan and make it 3-1.

Baek would settle down after a bit of a tough first inning, but ran into a bit of trouble in the third. With one out a single up the middle followed by a wild pitch put Adonis Tountas in scoring position. Baek then struck out J.T. Truhett for the second out, but walked David Kiriakos and hot Brandon Young with a pitch to load the bases. However, he was able to retire Nikko Tountas with a fly out to center to end the threat.

Lopez would help Biola tack on another run in the fourth, once again driving home Mac Sullivan, this time with a single up the middle.

Biola would added two big insurance runs in the seventh. Lopez started the rally with a single to center. With two out, Dustin Williams singled to right, moving pinch-runner Tanner Swire to third. Fayard then drove Swire in with an infield single and a walk to Paul Slater loaded the bases. Wesley Cottier than followed suit with another infield single to drive home Biola's sixth run of the contest. 

Erick Allen came on and pitched a near-perfect final three innings, striking out three and walking two, but not allowing a run or hit to wrap up his first save of the season.

Lopez was one of two Biola players with two hits as Cottier contirbuted a pair of hits including a double in the contest.

The two teams close out the four-game set on Saturday with a doubleheader at Vanguard beginning at 11:00 a.m.