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Baseball Brandon Taylor, Sports Information Assistant

Heavyweight Bout Ends In A Draw

Eagles just 4.0 games out of first with 15 conference games left.

Jeremy Barth had the game winning hit in Biola's 4-3 extra-inning win.
Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SANTA CLARITA, Calif. --- Saturday's Golden State Athletic Conference schedule treated the Biola Eagles very well. While Biola was busy taking its third-consecutive GSAC series with a 4-3 win over the Mustangs in game one, No. 11 Vanguard and No. 21 Westmont suffered sweeps to carry the Eagles into a fourth-place conference standing.

With 15 GSAC games remaining on the Eagles schedule, Biola has a chance to make up even more ground next week with a weekend series against third-place Hope International (16-7, 9-6 GSAC) while first-place Menlo College is idle.

Both games boiled down to staring contests where the team that blinked last lost.

The starting pitching was as good, if not better, than advertized in game one as Micah Beyer and Aaron Alexander made solid contact a very scarce commodity.

The starters kept the game scoreless and only allowed a hit apiece through the first 3.5 innings. Designated hitter Dalton Devries landed the first jab with a solo homerun that put the Mustangs up 1-0 for a full inning. But four of the first five hitters to face Alexander in the sixth to give Beyer a one-run lead to play with at 2-1 Biola.

Alexander and Beyer would finish with nearly identical lines: eight strikeouts, two runs allowed and at least seven innings pitched. This game just would not let their performances take center story with all the back-and-forth.

Aaron Shackleford scored a run for The Master's on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eight to leave each pitcher with no decisions and game one appropriately went to extra innings after both teams went 1-2-3 in the ninth.

Mustangs' fireman Scott Savage got the first two Eagles he saw in the tenth. But Biola came up with a breakthrough to force the home team to play from behind again and put the game just of the reach of The Master's comeback attempt.

Two-out walks from Joey Magro and Trey Holly proved themselves worthwhile when Jeremy Barth's linedrive to center scooted under the glove of a diving Max Maitland for a two-run triple. Barth is the first Eagles with 20 RBI's on the year.

After Buddy Brouwer got the all-important first out in the bottom half, the Mustangs started to apply heavy pressure by getting runners to the corners.

Closer Daniel Jang would eventually walk in a run before buckling down in a big way to escape the bases loaded jam with one out. Jang used a strikeout and a harmless popfly to Anj Bourgeois to get his fifth save of the season and hand Brouwer his second win in four days.

With seven walks in game one, the Eagles took at least seven free passes for the fifth straight game and used Bourgeois' team-leading two hits as a spark plug.

Things were still coming up roses to start game two of the double header with Biola jumping out to a 2-0 lead. But the Mustang's team deserves credit for turning their desire to avoid a five-game conference losing streak into a resolve that carried them all the way through the seven inning affair for a 5-4 win.

Wyatt Haccou pitched well enough to win and executed his gameplan without noticeable slipups. The Mustangs simply played as though their season was riding on their overcoming the early deficit. Following a solo homerun in the first and a two-run second, Haccou kept the home team scoreless for the next three innings and retired seven-in-a-row during one stretch.

And in that span the Eagles responded with two more runs to make it a 4-3 game. Pinch-hitting expert Kalani Nakamura (now 3-for-3 with a walk in four pinch hit opportunities) tied the game with a single that plated Colton Worthington only to see his replacement runner, Jerron Largusa, score on a wild pitch.

The Mustangs, were undeterred, however, as they took the lead for the final time in the bottom of the sixth with a two-run single. The 5-4 result hands Haccou a tough-luck loss after the righty reached a new season-high in strikeouts with seven and threw his second complete game.

Biola will look to start a new winning streak with Tuesday's meeting against the Providence Christian Sea Beggars. First pitch is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
 
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Players Mentioned

Jeremy Barth

#7 Jeremy Barth

OF
6' 4"
Senior
L/R
Micah Beyer

#28 Micah Beyer

RHP
5' 11"
Junior
R/R
Anj Bourgeois

#8 Anj Bourgeois

IF
5' 11"
Sophomore
L/R
Buddy Brouwer

#48 Buddy Brouwer

LHP
6' 0"
Senior
L/L
Daniel Jang

#17 Daniel Jang

RHP/IF
5' 7"
Junior
R/R
Jerron Largusa

#77 Jerron Largusa

OF
6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R
Joey Magro

#6 Joey Magro

3B
6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
Kalani Nakamura

#13 Kalani Nakamura

IF
5' 7"
Sophomore
L/R
Colton Worthington

#24 Colton Worthington

OF/1B
5' 11"
Junior
R/R
Trey Holly

#55 Trey Holly

OF
5' 9"
Junior
L/L
Wyatt Haccou

#18 Wyatt Haccou

RHP
6' 0"
Junior
R/R

Players Mentioned

Jeremy Barth

#7 Jeremy Barth

6' 4"
Senior
L/R
OF
Micah Beyer

#28 Micah Beyer

5' 11"
Junior
R/R
RHP
Anj Bourgeois

#8 Anj Bourgeois

5' 11"
Sophomore
L/R
IF
Buddy Brouwer

#48 Buddy Brouwer

6' 0"
Senior
L/L
LHP
Daniel Jang

#17 Daniel Jang

5' 7"
Junior
R/R
RHP/IF
Jerron Largusa

#77 Jerron Largusa

6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R
OF
Joey Magro

#6 Joey Magro

6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
3B
Kalani Nakamura

#13 Kalani Nakamura

5' 7"
Sophomore
L/R
IF
Colton Worthington

#24 Colton Worthington

5' 11"
Junior
R/R
OF/1B
Trey Holly

#55 Trey Holly

5' 9"
Junior
L/L
OF
Wyatt Haccou

#18 Wyatt Haccou

6' 0"
Junior
R/R
RHP
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