Box Score LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola Baseball hosted a red-hot College of Idaho Yotes team on Thursday afternoon and managed to play the guys 10-1 visitors very close until a big fly in the 8^th busted the game open and gave CI a 7-2 win.
 
Eric Diomartich got the ball for Head Coach Jay Sullenger looking to duplicate his winning effort from up at Menlo last Friday. He put in another strong start, but eventually the walk caught up with him as he allowed two runs in both the fourth and fifth inning.
 
His day ended with a line of five innings pitched, four earned runs against, three hits, seven walks and three strikeouts. His hit-and-miss stuff was working against the Yotes' hitters, but his command was off just enough to be taken advantage of.
 
He exited the game and left Biola trailing the College of Idaho 4-1 heading into the sixth. The Eagles' only run to that point came from the heart of the order producing on its own. JD Meyer, who was playing shortstop and hitting third today, ledoff the fourth with a double and came home immediately on a Eugene Shin single.
 
The Eagles would not score again until the bottom of the sixth when Sam Thorne got an RBI single to bring Anj Bourgeois across the plate after Bourgeois hit a one-out triple. The freshman had a solid day as the 9-man in Sullenger's order. He was 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored.
 
When Bourgeois crossed the plate it brought the game to 4-2. The margin was still so close because Gabe Ihrig began his relief outing with two relatively easy scoreless innings.
 
Unfortunately, his good outing was spoiled when he allowed three runs to score on three hits in the top of the eight. This included a Hunter Hanson two-run homerun that busted the game open. It was the first homerun Ihrig has allowed in 2016.
 
That inning took all the air out of the Eagles' sails as even a bevy of pinch hitters could not get the offense going in the bottom of the eighth or bottom of the ninth and Biola suffered another loss.
 
The losing effort drops Sullenger's squad to 4-10 on the new season, while the Yotes improve to 11-1. Eagles Diamond will be busy on Friday as Biola hosts the College of Idaho again at 10:00 a.m. on Friday before the Yotes play Bethesda at 2:00 p.m.