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stainbrook
8
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 1-1
1
Western Oregon WOU 0-1
Winner
Biola University BU-BASE
1-1
8
Final
1
Western Oregon WOU
0-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Biola University BU-BASE 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 0 8 13 0
Western Oregon WOU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 3

W: Stainbrook, Troy (1-0) L: Grubbe,Craig (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Brandon Taylor, Assistant Sports Information Director

Eagles Play Lights Out

The offense tallies eight runs and Troy Stainbrook pitches six dominant innings during Biola’s first win.

AZUSA, Calif. --- Biola's first win as an NCAA DII institution came on Thursday with a boom.

The Eagles rolled to an 8-1 victory over Western Oregon at the Cougar Baseball Complex after getting 13 hits and six dominant innings from starter Troy Stainbrook.

On the heels of Micah Beyer's excellent five innings on Wednesday, Stainbrook proved that the Eagles will have a formidable one-two punch in their starting rotation by recording 10 strikeouts without surrendering a single run or free pass. The lefty induced 14 swing-and-misses from the 21 batters he faced and retired 10 batters in a row from the last out of the third inning to the second out of the sixth.

While Stainbrook was tossing zeros onto the APU scoreboard, the Eagles hitters did their job to remove the Western Oregon starter from the game. After Biola scored three runs in the third with singles from Phil Knapp and Colton Worthington, the Wolves were forced to remove Craig Grubbe from the game after 3.2 innings and 79 pitches.

Grubbe really started to run into problems when the bottom third of the Eagles order faced him for the first time. Ricky Perez and Knapp both reached against Grubbe before he was taken out and then proceeded to combined for three more hits on the evening.

When combined with Brandon Cody's 3-for-4 night at the plate, Biola's starting seven through nine hitters reached base eight of the 12 times they came to the plate and accounted for four runs.

The hitting success ahead of Biola's power hitters also meant things could not get much better for Colton Worthington and Jerron Largusa. Worthington collected a game-high three RBI's with two singles while Largusa knocked in two runs on doubles down the left field line.

Joey Leavitt, Josh Ludeman and Daniel Jang combined to allow a single run to the Wolves over the final three innings. Leavitt's appearance was punctuated by an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play that neutralized WOU's scoring chance with runners at first and third. Then Jang had an easy time closing things out in the ninth as he retired the side in six pitches.

The Eagles end the first week of their season with a record of 1-1 and with a win against the team that was projected to finish as the GNAC conference champion in the preseason coaches' poll.

Biola's next game will be back at Eagles Diamond on Feb. 14. The Eagles' matinee with Providence Christian will begin at 2:00 p.m.
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