SANTA CLARITA, Calif. --- Biola overcame a 10-0 deficit to bring the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning and give the Academy of Art Urban Knights a scare. But the seven runs the Eagles scored in the final three innings just were not enough to counteract the onslaught from ART U early in Saturday's game.
 
The first half of the game belonged entirely to the Urban Knights as Jackson Murphy led his team's effort to score in each of the first five innings. After Murphy hit a three-run homerun in the first inning to start the scoring for ART U, the right fielder would go on to tie his program's records for hits (4) and RBI's (5) in a game as the Urban Knights created a 8-0 lead after six innings.
 
After visiting shortstop Taylor Martin hit his first homerun of the year in the seventh inning, Biola's bats got to see starter Ben Kaser for the third time and finally started their counterattack.
 
Kaser started the game with 4.2 no-hit innings and held the Eagles scoreless through six when his second baseman snagged a Ryan Gallegos rocket and started an inning-ending double play. But back-to-back hits from Jacob Portaro and River Fawley created the first of two runs for Biola in the seventh and started to things around.
 
Then Ryan Gallegos tacked on two more in the bottom of the eighth when he blasted a homerun to deepest center field against reliever Ben Clegg. The roundtripper was the freshman's fourth of the season and gave him 24 RBI's through the 24 games he's played this season.
 
In the ninth inning the Eagles welcomed ART U reliever CJ Romero to the game with four-straight hits and a sacrifice fly to make it a 10-7 game and bring the tying run to the plate in the person of Gallegos. But Romero got his man to swing under a 2-2 pitch to end the game on a fly out.
 
Biola ended the game with 11 hits, including two from freshman Jackson Collins, who ended Kaser's no-no with a double in the fifth. Jerron Largusa was the only other Eagles to collect two hits while Portaro's single in the seventh kept his hitting streak alive and pushed it to 10 games.

Academy of Art improves to 13-14, 8-10 PacWest with the win while Biola still sits at a respectable 17-7, 9-5 PacWest.
 
These teams will try to decide a winner in the series with a doubleheader on Sunday at The Master's University. First pitch is scheduled for 12 noon.