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RJ Bates running around third base
George Rodriguez
17
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 16-11, 7-8 PacWest
15
Azusa Pacific APU 22-10, 12-3 PacWest
Winner
Biola University BU-BASE
16-11, 7-8 PacWest
17
Final
15
Azusa Pacific APU
22-10, 12-3 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Biola University BU-BASE 11 0 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 17 16 2
Azusa Pacific APU 1 0 2 3 5 0 4 0 0 15 18 3

W: Carrillo, Kenny (4-1) L: Estrella, N. (5-1) S: Ludeman, Josh (2)

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

Slugfest: Chapter Two

Biola Baseball fends off No. 13 Azusa Pacific for a 17-15 win after scoring 11 runs in the top of the first inning.

AZUSA, Calif. --- This year's Cornerstone Cup Series with No. 13 Azusa Pacific officially became so outrageous that it will be remembered for a long time to come. After the teams combined for 37 runs in game one of the series, Biola and APU scored 32 more runs in game one of Saturday's doubleheader and went through a rollercoaster of emotions to get there.

The Eagles came out on top of the 17-15 contest after scoring 11 runs in the first inning and never lost the lead in the contest. But they had to hold off two rallies from the Cougars that made the game 12-11 and 17-15 in the four-hour, nine-minute ordeal. Kenny Carillo earned the win for Biola after allowing no earned runs in four innings while Josh Ludeman gets the save after closing out the win with a strikeout.

The Eagles released all of their frustrations related to Friday's results with a big first inning that chase the Cougars' starter after he allowed 10 earned runs in two-thirds of an inning. Seven-straight Eagles reached safely to make it a 5-0 game after Nick Estrella started the game with an out. After Estrella got the second out, the next four men also reached safely to make in 8-0 before RJ Bates provided the big blow with a three-run bomb that made it 11-0.

The homerun was Bates' sixth of the season and his third in the last four games. He and Jackson Collins tied for the team lead with five RBI's in the contest as the duo collected all three of Biola's extra-base hits.

BU's 11 runs in the first inning is most the Eagles have scored to open up a ballgame since they set a new program record with 14 in the first inning of a 23-5 win at Fresno Pacific on March 15, 2018.

But you could feel that the Cougars wouldn't take a loss lying down after that big inning to blow things open. After scoring one in the bottom of the first, APU would add two in the third, three in the fourth to force Biola to go to the bullpen, and five runs with two outs in the fifth to really make the game nerve-wracking.

But Justin Duarte's group proved their mettle with their response to the middle innings. Kenny Carillo closed out the inning for Biola in the fifth and then threw a scoreless inning that was crucial for the Eagles to create more distance on the scoreboard. A throwing error from the Cougars with the bases loaded gifted the Eagles two runs in the sixth before Collins hit a bases-clearing double in the seventh to push Biola up to 17 runs.

Like Bates, Collins went 3-for-5 in game one with five RBI's and two runs scored. And those hits also preserved Biola's unblemished mark when it holds a lead going into the late innings. The Eagles are now 10-0 on the year when leading after six innings and 8-0 when leading after seven.

As one might expect, the Cougars came back with four unearned runs against Carillo in the bottom of the seventh to make it a two-run game. But the Montebello, California-native retired the 9-1-2 batters for APU in order in the eighth and then go two quick outs in the ninth before Ludeman recorded a swinging strikeout.
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