Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola was three outs away from completing a 4-0 weekend and keeping the good times rolling with a sweep against Marymount at Freedom Field on Saturday, but the Mariners had other plans.
 
After Biola earned a 1-0 win behind a combined shutout from Terri Van Dagens and Kaile Chavez in game one the Eagles had a 5-4 lead heading into the top of the seventh in the second game. With Chavez in the circle yet again it felt like a foregone conclusion that the Eagles would walk away with another win the way she's been pitching as of late. Unfortunately, a walk, a hit-by-pitch and a 2-RBI double swung the game in the other direction as Marymount earned a 6-5 win.
 
The loss in the second game was a sour way to end what was a very enjoyable day at Freedom Field, but a doubleheader split is always better than two losses, so we're sure Head Coach Lorie Coleman will take it.
 
Pitching and defense dominated game one as Van Dagens cruised to her fifth victory of the season and Chavez picked up her first save with two perfect innings in relief.
 
It didn't seem like Marymount was able to hit anything out of the infield all game long as Van Dagens fooled the hitters with her off-speed stuff and Chavez brought the heat.
 
In fact, nine of the 21 outs were either bunts or ground balls fielded by Eagles' third-baseman Heather Hall. She tied a school record for fielding assists in a single game with nine. Rebecca Honsowetz previously set the record in a game back in 1999.
 
Biola got the game-winning run off the bat of Selina Sherlin as she singled home Andi Hormel in the top of the first inning. All four of Biola's first four batters reached base against Marymount's Kaylee Wallingford, but the Eagles could only squeeze that one run across.
 
Wallingford would go the distance in a losing effort, allowing just one hit to Biola after the four-hit first inning.
 
Game two was rocky for both sides. Biola allowed three runs in the top of the first inning to trail for the first time on the day. Another Sherlin RBI single in the bottom of the first helped Biola start to chip away at the lead, but it was really the two-run second inning that pulled them right back into the game.
 
That inning was setup by an Areana Ramos leadoff single and great sacrifice bunt from Iliana Morales. That allowed the Eagles to gain some momentum against game two starter, Kaitlyn Jacobs. That momentum turned into runs when Andi Hormel and Kailey Chavez both got two-out RBI singles.
 
At that point Chavez was back in the circle for Coleman. She entered the game with two outs in the first inning after Marymount had already gotten the three runs across the plate.
 
She cruised through her first five innings of work until the Mariners began to put things together against her in the top of the sixth.
 
The Eagles were not sweating things when Marymount squeezed one run across the plate in the sixth because they had built a two-run lead thanks to a solo homerun from Kasey Hormel and a run that scored on Marymount's only error of the game.
 
The sweat came in the seventh as the bases-clearing double off the bat of Katelyn Morreale changed the entire look and feel of the game.
 
That double knocked Chavez out of the game and ended her afternoon with 7.2 total innings of work. Terri Van Dagens came back into the game to get the final two outs of the seventh in a game that forced coach Coleman to use all four of her pitchers.
 
Biola went down 1, 2, 3 in the bottom of the seventh to suffer just its second loss in the last 10 ballgames. Biola sits at 9-6-1 as it anticipates its home doubleheader against La Sierra this Friday.