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Baseball Brandon Taylor, Sports Information Assistant

Eagles' Winning Effort Weathers The Storm

Biola gets win No. 20 in wet and wild fashion.

Box Score LA MIRADA, Calif. --- There is no doubt that inclement weather had an effect on Tuesday's game between the Biola Eagles and the Providence Christian Sea Beggars. When all was said and done, the waterworks gave both teams the chance to have some fun with human bowling and boyish battles. Also, over an hour's worth of play was erased when an 11-11 tie in the sixth reverted back to a 5-3 win for Biola after umpire stopped the action.

Sean McCarrell (2-0) gets the win for the Eagles after two scoreless innings of relief while Biola gets its 20th win of the season right at the halfway mark of its regular season schedule.

The 5-3 score after five innings stands as a result of rule 5.8.b, which states that the final score of a suspended game will revert back to the last fully completed inning in the event that an inning in progress cannot be finished before play is halted (due to darkness, rain, etc.). Consequently, Jacob Winn's game-tying three-run triple to center field in the sixth inning lives on only in the minds of spectators and in the archive of Biola's recorded broadcasts at http://portal.stretchinternet.com/biola/.

But there were other headlining moments that the statistics will acknowledge. Center fielder Phil Knapp jumped on a fastball from Sea Beggars starer Matthew Rodriguez in the fifth inning to smash his first homerun of the year over to straight-away left field and make the score 5-3.

Earlier in the second inning, Joey Magro swiped his third bag of the game in grand fashion by sliding into home plate safely on a double steal with Kalani Nakamura to give the Eagles a 4-0 lead. Magro bat leadoff in Head Coach Jay Sullenger's lineup for the fifth-straight game and reached base all three times he came to the dish on Tuesday.

He has now reached base safely 12 times in the last five games, good for a .521 on-base percentage over that span.

As a team, Biola had nine hits and six walks over five innings and reached base safely 15 times or more for the sixth time in the past two weeks. The Eagles are 7-3 overall during that time and are averaging over eight runs per game.

Gabe Ihrig had a nose for inducing swing-and-misses during his 80-pitch outing and set a new season-high with seven strikeouts. He stranded six Providence Christian runners during his three innings and kept his ERA at an impressive 1.92 despite allowing three runs.

Biola still has 16 home games remaining on the 2017 schedule and will begin a huge weekend series at Eagles Diamond against the Hope International Royals on Friday. First pitch on Friday is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.
 
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Players Mentioned

Gabe Ihrig

#30 Gabe Ihrig

RHP
6' 1"
Senior
R/R
Joey Magro

#6 Joey Magro

3B
6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
Sean McCarrell

#2 Sean McCarrell

IF/RHP
5' 9"
Senior
R/R
Kalani Nakamura

#13 Kalani Nakamura

IF
5' 7"
Sophomore
L/R
Phil Knapp

#3 Phil Knapp

OF
6' 0"
Junior
R/R
Jacob Winn

#11 Jacob Winn

IF
5' 9"
Junior
R/R

Players Mentioned

Gabe Ihrig

#30 Gabe Ihrig

6' 1"
Senior
R/R
RHP
Joey Magro

#6 Joey Magro

6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
3B
Sean McCarrell

#2 Sean McCarrell

5' 9"
Senior
R/R
IF/RHP
Kalani Nakamura

#13 Kalani Nakamura

5' 7"
Sophomore
L/R
IF
Phil Knapp

#3 Phil Knapp

6' 0"
Junior
R/R
OF
Jacob Winn

#11 Jacob Winn

5' 9"
Junior
R/R
IF
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