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Gallegos vs Dixie State
George Rodriguez
5
Dixie State DX-BASE 20-22, 16-16 PacWest
18
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 27-15, 19-13 PacWest
Dixie State DX-BASE
20-22, 16-16 PacWest
5
Final
18
Biola University BU-BASE
27-15, 19-13 PacWest
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Dixie State DX-BASE 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 5 6 2
Biola University BU-BASE 0 0 2 2 4 3 0 7 X 18 17 1

W: Sutorius, Devin (4-1) L: Taylor, Gabe (3-5)

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

Offense Sizzles In Series Finale

Biola splits the series with Dixie State after an 18-run outburst on Saturday.


LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Starter Devin Sutorius gave the Dixie State Trailblazers fits with 5.1 hitless innings on Saturday and his teammates absolutely dominated the middle innings with tons of offense to earn an 18-5 blowout win in the final game of the series.

The victory earns the Eagles a series split with Dixie State and keeps Biola in fourth place in the conference at 27-15, 19-13 PacWest. The Trailblazers sit three games behind Head Coach Jay Sullenger team in fifth place at 16-16 in PacWest play.

It turns out that the key to beating the Trailblazers was making them face hard-throwing lefties. After Christian Hammar and Troy Stainbrook limited Dixie State to two runs over a combined 12 innings of work from Thursday to Friday, Sutorius registered 13 two-strike counts against the visiting team's hitters and held Dixie State scoreless for the first two innings.

A run scored against Sutorius in the third inning on a hit batter but the left-hander responded by retiring the next eight batters in a row to carry the Eagles into the sixth inning.

Biola had already shot clear past Dixie State on the scoreboard by that point and was on its way to a double-figure scoring effort. The Eagles did Sutorius a solid by immediately taking the lead from their opponents in the bottom of third with run scoring hits from Ricky Perez and Colton Worthington.

Then they broke the game open two frames later when the score became 8-1 as Ryan Gallegos and Jerron Largusa provided key extra-base hits for the second day in a row. Gallegos his team a 5-1 lead with an RBI double and got to job home when Largusa smashed a belt-high pitch over the left field wall for his second three-run homer of the series.

Gallegos followed suit in his very next at-bat when he hit a first-pitch slider out of the park for a three-run bomb that made it 11-1 Biola. It was Gallegos' third homerun of the series and the eighth in four game for the Eagles. Every hit the freshman outfielder had over the weekend went for extra-bases and he wrote himself a very impressive resume for PacWest Freshman on the Week with 10 RBI's.

With the game in hand, Biola added seven more runs to its total during its last at-bats. The inning was highlighted by a two-run double from Andy Van Antwerp and a RBI single from Phil Knapp, who was one of seven Eagles to collect at least two hits on Saturday. All nine members of the starting lineup had reached base safely by the fifth inning.

Biola's its final home series of its PacWest schedule next week when Azusa Pacific comes to La Mirada for a four-game series. First pitch on Thursday is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.
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