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Box Score 2 LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola pounded out 21 hits on the afternoon including nine in a 5-1 win in the second game against Hope International, but had to settle for a split after losing 5-3 in 10 innings in the opener of a GSAC doubleheader on Thursday afternoon.
The Eagles improve to 13-20 on the season and to 2-4 in GSAC play while the Royals finish the day at 17-11 and 3-3 in the conference.
Biola broke out of a bit of a scoring drought with five runs in the second game. After Hope took the early 1-0 lead with a run in the second, Biola answered back in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run off the bat of Sam Roberts.
The Eagles added two more in the third inning as Chelsea Limm reached on a single and Heather Hall tripled her home to make it 3-1. Hall would score on a wild pitch to give Biola a 4-1 lead through three.
Biola capped the scoring in the fifth as Limm led off with a single, was sacrificed to second by Hall and scored on a triple by Bria Madrid.
Sarah Enriquez earned the win, allowing one run on five hits over seven innings.
She was impressive in the first game, too, but was unable to pull out the win.
Enriquez opened up the first game by throwing a perfect 6-1/3 innings to start--retiring the first 19 batters she faced.
Biola had given her an early 1-0 lead with a run in the fourth as Illiana Morales hit a one-out double and came around to score on a single by Ashley Spadt. Despite the one run, Biola was unable to pull away. The Eagles had a base runner in every inning but the first and stranding six runners on base.
Hope got its first hit with one out in the seventh--a clean single to left by Adi Lopez. That was followed quickly by the Royals' first run as Michelle Rivas doubled her home. Biola turned a rare 1-3-2 double play to end the inning and head to the bottom of the seventh tied at 1-1.
Three-straight singles by Biola loaded the bases with no one out and appeared to set the table for an Eagle walk-off win. However, a strikeout, a shallow pop out and a foul out ended the inning with the bases left filled.
Hope took back the lead by scoring the tiebreaker run with a one-out groundout to take a 2-1 lead. Biola answered back in the bottom of the inning as a bunt single off the glove of a diving third baseman allowed the tiebreaker runner to come around to score and the batter to more to second. A sacrifice bunt moved Vanessa Coleman to third with one out, but a come backer to the mound and a ground out to second ended the inning with the score still tied at 2-2.
Biola held the Royals without a run in the top of the ninth, but despite again putting a runner at third with one out, the Eagles could not take advantage and the teams moved to the 10th.
Hope broke the game open in the 10th as Lopez singled home the tiebreaker run with one out and a two-out, two-run double by Stephanie Froussine to make it 5-2.
Biola would score the tiebreaker runner with a two-out single by Coleman, but a line out ended the game.
Biola pounded out 12 hits in the game, but could score just three runs and left 12 runners on base in the game. Enriquez suffered the loss despite allowing just five hits in the game.
Limm went 4-for-7 to pace the Biola offense, scoring three runs. Spadt and Coleman each added three hits while Roberts went 3-for-4 overall.
Biola returns to action on Wednesday, taking on Hamline University (Minn.) in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 2:00 p.m.
