LA MIRADA, Calif. --- In addition to picking up four wins last week and returning from Hawaii on top of the PacWest standings, Biola Baseball will start its second conference series with a few more pieces of good news.

The Eagles picked up two wins on Monday without having to pickup a baseball or lace up their cleats, as Hope International was forced to forfeit the two games it played against Biola. As a result of the forfeits, the Eagles are now 9-4 overall and 3-0 at home. The two losses charged to Biola's pitchers in the games against the Royals have been removed, but all the other statistics from both games are still valid.

RJ Bates and Brayden Englert also earned weekly awards from the PacWest for their performances at the conclusion of the Hawaii trip, giving each man the first conference honor of his career. Bates was named PacWest Player of the Week after leading the conference in RBI's and total bases while right-handed pitcher Brayden Englert was named Freshman of the Week for his complete game win against Hawaii Hilo on Saturday.

Bates led the PacWest with 10 RBI's on eight hits this week and tied teammate RobertAnthony Cruz with 16 total bases. All four of Bates extra-base hits, two homeruns, and two doubles, drove in multiple runs while the junior had three multi-hit games. No other hitter in the PacWest had more than five RBI's. And speaking of Cruz, the sophomore infielder mashed at the plate last with with 11 hits and five doubles in six games. He had a .517 on-base percentage and struckout just once over that six-game span while outfielder Jerron Largusa struckout just twice and scored eight runs.

Englert also excelled last week, throwing a nine-inning complete game victory against Hawaii Hilo with a very efficient performance of 80 pitches. The Long Beach, California-native induced 15 groundouts during his complete game, the first nine-inning CG for Biola Baseball since April 21, 2017, and retired 19 batters in a row from the second inning to the eighth inning. He only allowed a two-out single in the second and a two-out single in the eighth after allowing a run in the first inning.

Out of the pen, Josh Ludeman allowed just one run and struck out seven in 7.1 innings of work while sophomore Anthony Villegas continued his stellar start to 2019 with a .156 batting average against in nine innings. Villegas was credited with two of Biola's four wins last week.

LAST WEEK: 10-6 W, 0-4 L at Hawaii Pacific; 4-7 L, 9-6 W/12, 4-1 W, 11-3 W at Hawaii Hilo (4-2 Weekly Record, 9-4 Overall Record)

THIS WEEK: vs HOLY NAMES: Friday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. & Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. (PT)

MULTIMEDIA: Live video and live stats will be provided free of charge for all Biola home contests. See links and cost for road contests in the previews below.

TICKETS: Biola home events are always free to Biola students, staff, faculty and alumni. Children 12 and under are also always free. General admission is $6 and discounted tickets for opposing school students, guests under 18 and seniors are $4. See ticketing information for road contests below each preview below.

BIOLA (9-4, 3-1 PacWest) at HOLY NAMES (3-10, 2-2 PacWest): Friday, March 8 at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.; Saturday March 9, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. \\ Live Stats \\ Live Video

Holy Names got off to a rough start to the season with eight losses in its first nine games. But the Hawks turned a few heads in the PacWest when they split a home-series with No. 11 Azusa Pacific 2-2, including a 2-0 shutout of the Cougars led by eight innings from Garrett O'Callaghan with 12 strikeouts. O'Callaghan has been a feast or famine pitcher for the Hawks in four appearances this season and will come to La Mirada with a 5.52 ERA even after the stellar performance against APU. O'Callaghan also went 0-1 against Biola last year after surrendering six runs on six hits and three walks in two innings at Eagles Diamond on April 14, 2018. At the plate, Holy Names is led by Carlos Cosio with 11 hits and a .407 batting average and William Ruiz with his 16 hits and .364-clip. The Hawks aren't a team that needs extra-base hits to score its runs, as they have just 20 extra-base hits in 13 games, 16 of which are doubles. But they do strikeout a lot more than they walk at 108 k's to 47 free passes, so the Eagles may take the chance of just pounding the strikezone to establish control in the series. This will be HNU's first roadtrip to Southern California this year and also Hawks' first competition in about two weeks, as rain prevented Holy Names from playing any games after hosting Azusa Pacific on the last weekend of February