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LA MIRADA, Calif. --- As it has been in each of the previous three matchups in 2016, Tuesday's Biola vs. Bethesda baseball game came down to the very last minute as the Eagles earned a 9-8 walk-off win.
 
It was a bullpen day for Head Coach Jay Sullenger's squad as he had four different relievers featured over the course of the nine innings and Gabe Ihrig earned his first start of the season.
 
Ihrig worked three serviceable innings, allowing four hits and two separate one-run innings, but he was actually in position to get the win for much of the game as his lineup did the work to put the Eagles ahead in the early going.
 
It was a solid offensive afternoon for this BU team as it worked 13 hits off the combined efforts of five Bethesda pitchers. Of course, scoring nine runs is clearly evidence that something was working. This is the third time in four tries against Bethesda that the Eagles have managed at least nine runs.
 
A good chunk of the damage Biola's hitters were able to inflict came via the long ball. Alec de Watteville and JD Meyer each hit two-run homeruns as the Eagles built an 8-3 lead through the first six innings.
 
The fifth and sixth innings were the most productive for Sullenger's crew. Biola scored three in the fifth, sparked by a two-RBI Jerron Largusa double, and two more in the sixth, when de Watteville went yard.
 
That gave the five-run lead to Sean Rothfuss, who had been in the game and pitching effectively since the fourth. However, an error, single and double allowed the Flames to score one and get runners to second and third with no outs in the top of the seventh and forced Sullenger to call Buddy Brouwer's number.
 
Brouwer got back-to-back-to-back groundouts to end the inning with just one more run scoring as the score creeped closer at 8-5. The Flames would get one more off of Brouwer in the eighth as Daniel Rodriguez hit his second, and the Flames' forth, double of the day to bring Jonathan Velasquez home and make the game 8-6.
 
A Sam Thorne leadoff double in the bottom of the eighth had the Eagles thinking of some insurance runs, but Thorne would be thrown out at home when Eugene Shin hit a one-out grounder to the second baseman to ruin the threat to extend the lead in that inning.
 
Daniel Jang came out of the bullpen in the ninth to attempt to record his second save of the year. Instead, a Daniel Dominguez double tied the game at eight and started to make an already abnormally lengthy game look like it was headed to extras.
 
That would not be the case though as Aaron Chavez worked a 3-2 count before getting hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning. He would steal second base and then come around to score on Rodriguez's one-out walk-off single.
 
It was Rodriguez's first hit of the day and secured a rare day where each member of the Biola batting order reached base at least once.

The 9-8 win evens the season series between these two teams and helps Biola move to 6-14 on the year. Bethesda falls to 14-9 overall. Biola stays at home this weekend for the second-to-last series of a really long home stretch. The Eagles host William Jessup (1-15, 1-5 GSAC) for three games on Friday and Saturday.