Box Score LA MIRADA, Calif. --- A new year means new faces, and the new faces on Biola Baseball shone extra bright as the Eagles earned a season-opening 10-9 victory over Bethesda on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Of the Eagles' 10 runs five were scored by new players, and fresh faces accounted for six of the nine Biola RBI on the afternoon.
 
Jerron Largusa was one of those standout players as he made a big mark in the first game of his collegiate career by going 1-for-3 with a walk, homerun, three runs scored and three RBI.
 
He was one of three Eagles to go deep in a game that was dominated by offense from start to finish. Alec de Watteville and Andrew Frank also went yard. It was de Watteville's first game for Head Coach Jay Sullenger after transferring in from San Jose State.
 
The Eagles put up 12 hits and 10 runs in their season-opener, which is a far cry from the team that averaged fewer than five runs per game and eight hits per game in 2015.
 
Every bit of that offense was needed in a see-saw game that saw the game tied or the lead change hands seven times through the nine innings.
 
Innings two, three and four are where most of the scoring came. Bethesda combined for five runs in the second and third as the Eagles struggled defensively, committing three errors and allowing four of those runs to come unearned.
 
Fortunately for Biola the bats were not as slow to warm up. Sam Thorne picked up his first RBI of the year with a two-out, two-run single to tie the game at two in the second. Then Largusa's three-run bomb in the third sent the game into the fourth tied at five.
 
Eric Diomartich worked a scoreless top of the fourth inning, the first scoreless inning since the bottom of the first, then the Eagles' bats got to work again in the bottom half of the fourth.
 
Sullenger's squad took its first lead of the game when Frank came up and hit a leadoff homerun to make it 6-5. That knocked Bethesda's starter out of the game, but the hits kept coming against the relief pitcher. Biola would go on to extend the lead to 9-5 in that inning when de Watteville clubbed his three-run homerun that brought JD Meyer and Eli Malfo across the plate.
 
That lead would hold until Bethesda's three-run seventh inning forced Sullenger to batten down the hatches by bringing in Buddy Brouwer and Daniel Jang out of the bullpen.
 
Brouwer and Jang pitched the final 2.1 innings and allowed the Flames just one hit to earn the win and save, respectively. Brouwer was on the mound when a perfectly executed double steal brought Largusa across the dish in the seventh to put Biola ahead 10-9. He moves to 1-0 on the season while Jang picks up his first save.
 
Jang had to walk a tightrope in the bottom of the eighth when he came in with runners on the corners and two outs. After a steal of second base Jang came up with a critical strikeout to end the inning and keep the lead intact.

Jimmy Gallarda was another Eagle with a prime offensive day. The junior first baseman went 3-for-4 and scored twice in his season debut. Returners Andres Rodriguez and Sam Thorne also both had multiple hits.
 
Biola improves to 1-0 with the win while Bethesda falls to 1-3. The Eagles are back at home for a three-game set against Antelope Valley this weekend. The series begins on Friday afternoon with a 2:00 p.m. first pitch.