LA MIRADA, Calif. --- The freight train that is the Biola offense made another pass through Eagles Diamond on Thursday. Andy Van Antwerp led the charge with two homeruns and Biola scored 13 runs to overwhelm the visiting Bethesda Flames, 13-5.

The Eagles started the game with a few difficulties against Flames starter Benjamin Lopez and actually fell behind Bethesda 2-0 before the bats woke up in the bottom of the third. Head Coach Jay Sullenger's team got back-to-back one-out singles from the eight and nine hitters, setting up Ricky Perez for his second and third RBI's of the season when he doubled down the leftfield line on the first pitch he saw from Lopez.

The Eagles scoring in the second would stop at two, but Perez would stay hot through the rest of the of the game for two more ribbies, a single and a walk.

Bethesda had production from the top of its' order too. Singles in the fourth inning from one and two hitters, Chris Carpio and Nathan Munoz, scored three more runs for the Flames to chase Christian Hammar from the contest and make in 5-2 in favor of the visiting team.

But after Bethesda got those runs, reliever Anthony Villeags settled down and turned in two quality innings thereafter. The freshman righty retired the last seven men he faced in order before the ball moved hands between Jacob Battaglia, Josh Ludeman and Devin Sutorius to close out the contest.

By the time Biola's last three relievers came in to take care of their business, Van Antwerp and his buddies had already done all the damage they needed to. The sophomore outfielder tucked a line drive home run inside the left field foul pole in the fourth inning to drive in three and tie the score at 5-5.

Then singles from Perez and Phil Knapp set the table for Joey Magro to give Biola its first lead at 6-5 with a sacrifice fly to right.

When Van Antwerp came up again in the seventh, Jerron Largusa had already warmed up the crowd a run-scoring triple. Van Antwerp followed by smashing his second homerun over the left-centerfield fence against a new reliever for Bethesda and all but put the game out of reach by that point with the score at 10-5.

Colton Worthing would add on with a double in the seventh that made it 12-5 and Perez closed down shop with an RBI single in the eighth that pushed the Eagles total to 13.

Villegas is credited with his first win of the season while Biola's lineup has scored at least 13 runs in the last two games.

The Eagles will try to push that streak to three games on Friday when they face the Flames in the second game of the four-part series. First pitch is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.