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Box Score 2 IRVINE, Calif. --- Biola's pitching could not hold down No. 11 Concordia for the second straight day, falling in both games of a doubleheader, losing game one 13-2 and game two 4-0 in a pair of GSAC games on Saturday afternoon in Irvine.
Biola suffers its fourth-straight loss and is swept in a three-game GSAC series for the first time this season, falling to 12-9 and to 5-7 in conference play. Concordia improves to 12-7 and to 8-4 in the GSAC.
A lack of offense and pitching turned out to be the culprits again for Biola, which scored just two runs during the doubleheader while allowing 17 runs.
In game one, freshman Josh Staumont got roughed up, allowing 10 runs--seven earned--on 10 hits over 3-2/3 innings while striking out six.
Concordia opened the game with a five-run first inning, collecting six hits to take an early lead. Biola got one back in the third as Johnny Farrington opened the inning with a double and scoring on a double by Paul Slater.
Biola would add another in the fourth as Michael Annunziata was hit by a pitch with one out, stole second and scored on a single by David McNeill. That cut the lead to 5-2.
But Concordia scored five more in the fourth including three unearned runs to blow the game open and lead 10-2. CUI would add on win the fifth, one in the sixth and one in the eighth to account for the scoring.
Farrington was the lone Biola player with two hits in the game.
In the second game of the twin bill, Concordia nickeled and aimed out one run in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings to win 4-0.
Nick Turner got the start and went the distance, allowing four runs--three earned--on eight hits over six innings while striking out four.
Biola had base runners in nearly every inning and had a great chance to score in the top of the first.
Paul Slater led off the game with a double and moved to third on an error by the right-fielder. However, he was erased on a pick off play on a rare pickoff move by the pitcher to third. Farrington followed with a single to short and stole second base. Benji Sutherland then singled through the left side to put runners on the corners, but a strikeout and a ground out ended the threat.
Adam Quintana got the win with seven shutout innings, scattering seven hits and striking out four. Turner suffers the loss to fall to 2-2.
Biola returns to action on Tuesday, hosting Whittier College in a non-conference game beginning at 2:00 p.m. on Eagles Diamond.