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George Rodriguez
2
Holy Names HNU-BASE 7-29, 3-23 PacWest
4
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 23-13, 15-11 PacWest
Holy Names HNU-BASE
7-29, 3-23 PacWest
2
Final
4
Biola University BU-BASE
23-13, 15-11 PacWest
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Holy Names HNU-BASE 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 4 1
Biola University BU-BASE 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 X 4 6 0

W: Beyer, Micah (6-1) L: McIntyre, Aiden (0-8) S: Jang, Daniel (13)

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

Couldn’t Time It Better

Ryan Gallegos delivers a three-run double in the seventh inning to push Biola past Holy Names, 4-2.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola's method of winning games during its past two home series has been so consistent you could almost set your watch by it.

Micah Beyer racked up strikeouts and went seven innings just as he has in every start for the past nine weeks. Then the Eagles took the lead in the seventh inning or later for the fourth-straight victory at home to clip Holy Names, 4-2.

The win helps Biola keep pace with the top half of the PacWest and puts the Eagles two games ahead of fifth-place Dixie State at 15-11 in conference play. Holy Names drops to 7-29 on the year despite a great start from Aiden McIntyre, who kept pace with Beyer for six-plus innings.

Both starting pitchers had to smooth out a few wrinkles in the first inning before settling in. Beyer surrendered a leadoff double to Colton Combs on the first pitch of the game but fared slightly better than McIntyre in the first after stranding Combs at second with two strikeouts and a groundout.

McIntyre walked leadoff hitter Ricky Perez on four pitches to start his outing and quickly went down 1-0 two batters later when Colton Worthington's sacrifice fly brought Perez home from third. McIntyre allowed his first hit of the game immediately after the run score as Ryan Gallegos continued his success against the Hawks with a double down the left field line.

The Holy Names righty buckled down in subsequent innings and did not allow another hit until Gallegos singled in the fourth to put two runners on with no outs. McIntyre got out of the fourth-inning and would repeat that act in the fifth and sixth innings while his teammates tied the score in the meantime.

HNU got its only run against Beyer in the fifth after the senior hit Ryan Fujinaka with an 0-2 fastball. Combs would hit his second double of the day after Beyer got the first out of the inning to tie the score at 1-1.

McIntyre kept the score knotted at one in the bottom half by stranding runners at first and second. But the Eagles made the Hawks' starter work extremely hard to keep the game tied. McIntyre threw 27 pitches in the fifth inning to raise his pitch count above 80. It was the first of three-consecutive innings in which McIntyre threw 21 pitches or more, pushing him to a level of fatigue that allowed Biola to take advantage in the seventh.

Beyer was able to avoid the high pitch counts thanks to two one-two-three innings that allowed him to throw eight pitches or fewer. Beyer went seven innings for the eighth-straight start, finishing with nine strikeouts and exactly 100 pitches.

Biola got three hits and a walk against McIntyre with two outs in the seventh to take a 4-1 lead. Gallegos struck the big blow with a bases-clearing double on a 1-0 fastball for his third hit of the game, raising his batting average from .330 at the start of the game to .345.

Holy Names hit a solo homerun in the eighth to make it a two-run game. But closer Daniel Jang retired the side in order in the ninth to collect his 13th save of the season on 13 pitches.

The four-game series will conclude on Saturday with a doubleheader. Game one is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m.
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