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Box Score 2 PHOENIX, Ariz. --- The bats were out for the Eagles on Wednesday in the desert as Biola swept a GSAC doubleheader against Arizona Christian University, winning 8-1 and 6-1 a the Rose Mofford Softball Complex in Phoenix.
The Eagles improve to 18-21 on the season and are now 4-4 in GSAC play while the Firestorm drops to 3-31 and to 0-8 in conference action.
Biola scored 14 runs on 18 hits in the twin bill with Ashley Spadt leading the way with four hits while Brooke Madrid added three and had two RBIs and scored three runs.
Meanwhile, pitcher Sarah Enriquez allowed just one run in each game with the run in the second game being unearned.
The Eagles opened the first game with a run in the first as Heather Hall doubled home Brooke Madrid with the game's first run. In the second inning, the Eagles added four more thanks in large part to three ACU errors with Sam Roberts bringing in two runs with a single.
Biola put at least two runners on base in each of the next four innings, but could not get a clutch hit to score any more until the seventh when the Eagles again took advantage of three errors by the Firestorm to tack on three more runs. When the game was over, Arizona Christian had committed a total of nine errors.
Enriquez was strong, getting into a bases loaded jam in the first, but getting out of it with a strike out. She allowed just one infield single over the next four innings before running into trouble again in the sixth. With one out, she gave up back-to-back singles with one runner coming around to score on a ground out.
In the second game, Biola again scored first, getting two runs in the second. Spadt led off the inning with a single and came around to score the game's first run on a double by Iliana Morales. Morales would score two batters later on a sacrifice fly by Sarah Stromwall.
The Eagles added another run in the fourth as Morales drove home Bria Madrid with a single up the middle to make it 3-0. Biola tacked on an unearned run in the sixth as Vanessa Coleman hit a sacrifice fly to bring home Bria Madrid.
Two errors by the Eagles in the bottom of the sixth gave Arizona Christian its only run of the game. But Biola got that run back and one more in the top of the seventh thanks to an RBI-triple by Brooke Madrid and an RBI-single by Hall.
Enriquez got the win in both games, allowing just one earned run on 10 hits over 14 innings, striking out 13.
Biola returns home on Saturday to host Vanguard University in a GSAC game beginning at 12:00 p.m.