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micah
Molli Kaptein
0
Point Loma PLNU-BAS 17-13
1
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 19-8
Point Loma PLNU-BAS
17-13
0
Final
1
Biola University BU-BASE
19-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Point Loma PLNU-BAS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
Biola University BU-BASE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 1 5 0

W: Beyer, Micah (5-0) L: Irvin, Garrett (4-1) S: Jang, Daniel (10)

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

Happy Micah Day

In what may the best start of his Biola career, Micah Beyer goes eight innings in the Eagles’ 1-0 victory.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Friday pitchers' duel between two of the most highly-touted pitchers in the PacWest was all it was cracked up to be, but Eagles' senior Micah Beyer was the last man standing when all the dust settled.

Beyer was tough as nails through eight shutout innings against Point Loma Nazarene University, scattering seven singles and recording 11 strikeouts. His performance was just one bit better than Sea Lions' lefty, Garrett Irvin, who struck out 10 Eagles but surrender the only run of the game in the bottom of the eighth.

"It was a great baseball game today and a lot of fun to be a part of," said Eagles Head Coach Jay Sullenger. "A lot of credit to the Sea Lions' young arm. He looked good, got himself out of trouble, and went pitch-for-pitch with the guy we know is the best of the league in Micah Beyer."

Irvin and Beyer both came into Friday's contest with top-five totals in innings pitched and strikeouts and they showed why their numbers were so good by keeping things neat and tidy through the first four innings. But the intensity of the game went up a notch when the fifth inning rolled around just one hour and fifteen minutes after first pitch.

The Sea Lions started the fifth with back-to-back singles from their one and two hitters to put runners aboard with no outs and the heart of PLNU's order coming to the plate. After getting a .368 hitter in Micah Pries to flyout to center and keep the runners anchored, Beyer retired the conference's best hitter in cleanup-man Tyler Flores by getting him to ground out on a chopper to first.

Flores came into the game batting .398 with 14 homeruns but went 0-for-3 against Beyer and did not hit the ball out of the infield.

With runners at second and third following Flores' grounder, the Eagles' ace then induced the same 3-1 putout from Point Loma's DH to strand runners at second and third and keep the game scoreless. Despite the threat, it ended up just being a 19-pitch inning for Beyer and an important preservation of pitch count that would allow the Eagles to send him back out with 89 pitches in the seventh and 100 to begin the eighth.

"We try to do a really good job taking care of our guys so that when the times comes and we to stretch them out we can do that," said Sullenger. "Micah is a guy that does a great job taking care of himself, so we felt comfortable based on where he was and how he looked to send him back out and it worked out very well."

Beyer struck out three batters during his last two innings to finish with 11 strikeouts in 111 pitches. He only allowed two free passes, had 23 first-pitch strikes and induced 23 swings that came up empty for Sea Lions hitters.

Following Beyer's 111th pitch to finish out the eighth, Irvin built his pitch count above the century mark in the bottom half of the frame and got himself into a bit of trouble when he surrendered his only walk of the game to Joey Magro to begin the inning.

The freshman lefty had just set a new high for the year with 110 pitches in his last start and managed to get two outs in the eighth with Magro at second by his 108th pitch. But Ricky Perez made Irvin pay when he reached uncharted territory with his 111th pitch of the game on a 2-0 count, smashing it through the left side for a RBI single that scored Magro to make the game 1-0.

That single run set the stage for Biola's closer Daniel Jang to become the first PacWest reliever to reach 10 saves on the year. Jang got a quick two outs on three pitches and then struck out Colby Kaneshiro looking to wrap up the 1-0 shutout and Beyer's fifth win of the season.

Biola is now 19-8 with an 11-6 record in conference while Point Loma drops to 17-13, 13-8 PacWest. These two teams will return to Eagles Diamond at 12 noon on Friday for the second and third games of the four-part set.
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