Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ATHERTON, Calif. --- Biola Softball began its final weekend of the 2017 regular season with a tough pair of losses up at Menlo College on Friday afternoon.
 
The Eagles' playoff hopes are now on the line in tomorrow's doubleheader at William Jessup, since Biola sits one full game behind San Diego Christian for the final spot in the Golden State Athletic Conference tournament.
 
The first game of Friday's action was all Menlo from the start. The Oaks jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first with a three-run homerun and then extended it to 7-0 with four more in the second inning before bringing the game to a close at 8-0 with a single run in the fifth.
 
Biola could only muster three hits in the first game and only had one runner get past first base as they had to go up against one of the top pitchers in the GSAC in Victoria Cervantes.  She's had Biola's number all season long, only allowing two earned runs over the course of 15.1 innings pitched against BU.
 
Game two was much more chockfull of intrigue as the teams traded runs back and forth and the game could have gone either way all the way down to the final out. Ultimately, using their final out, the Oaks managed to drive home two runs in the bottom of the seventh to walk-off with a 6-5 win.
 
Terri Van Dagens started the second game for the Eagles and threw four strong innings for Head Coach Lorie Coleman. She allowed a pair of runs in the first on a Menlo sacrifice fly and two-out RBI single, but then settled in nicely to put up zeroes up until her final inning of work.
 
The Oaks added a run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fourth to take a 3-0 lead and begin them thinking of another run-rule victory.
 
The Biola offense had other plans though as they put up a three-spot in the top of the fifth to make it a whole new ball game.
 
The first two runs came home on a RBI single by Kasey Hormel, who becomes the eighth Eagle to have 10+ RBI this season. The game-tying run was scored on a squeeze play as Maranda Galindo pushed Hormel home with a successful bunt.
 
Unfortunately for the Eagles Menlo answered right back in the bottom of the fifth with a pair of singles followed by a Biola error. That was all that they would get though as a smart fielding play by Kaile Chavez, who had come into the game in relief of Van Dagens, retired a runner at third for the second out and a lineout to first ended the inning and stranded two runners.
 
The see-saw continued to bounce back and forth in the top of the sixth as an Anjie Amezquita sacrifice fly and Karen Lieng RBI single helped Biola forge ahead for the first time in the game, taking a 5-4 lead.
 
That would hold until the Oaks got a two-out RBI double and followed it with a walk-off two-out RBI single to win the game in the bottom of the seventh.
 
Biola dropped to 21-20-2 (8-14 GSAC) with the pair of losses, while Menlo improved their second-place standing with two wins and moved to 29-16 (13-9 GSAC).
 
Biola will need a pair of wins tomorrow against William Jessup (16-17, 12-10 GSAC) to work its way into the 5-team conference tournament. Play begins at noon in Rocklin. No live broadcasts or statistics will be available. Please follow @Jessup_SFT on Twitter for in-game updates.