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Joey Magro celebrating with RJ Bates
George Rodriguez
5
Holy Names HNU-BASE 3-11, 2-3 PacWest
9
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 10-4, 4-1 PacWest
Holy Names HNU-BASE
3-11, 2-3 PacWest
5
Final
9
Biola University BU-BASE
10-4, 4-1 PacWest
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Holy Names HNU-BASE 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 3 0
Biola University BU-BASE 3 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 X 9 15 1

W: Kindreich, Larson (1-1) L: Duyao, Makaio (0-1)

10
Winner Holy Names HNU-BASE 4-11, 3-3 PacWest
7
Biola University BU-BASE 10-5, 4-2 PacWest
Winner
Holy Names HNU-BASE
4-11, 3-3 PacWest
10
Final
7
Biola University BU-BASE
10-5, 4-2 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Holy Names HNU-BASE 2 0 0 3 0 2 2 1 0 10 13 1
Biola University BU-BASE 0 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 0 7 9 0

W: Hill, Jeff (2-1) L: Carrillo, Kenny (1-1) S: Guerrero, Jay (1)

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

Hitting The Right Buttons

Several Eagles take on new roles to help Biola make a lot of noise on Friday and earn a doubleheader split.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- It didn't take very long for the Biola to get settled back into the comforts of home on Friday. The Eagles built on their strong finish to the Hawaii trip by scoring 16 runs across two games against the Holy Names Hawks to open up their first conference series at home with a doubleheader split.

Biola scored eight runs across the first three innings of game one and got a commanding eight innings from Larson Kindreich to win game one 9-3 before Holy Names slugged its way to a 10-7 victory in game two. The doubleheader split kept the Eagles in first place in the PacWest with a 4-2 conference record and pushed them to their 10th victory of the year in 15 games.

The abiding theme throughout the day for Head Coach Justin Duarte's group was the Eagles delivering over and again in roles they had not taken previously in the year. Even after BU scored 11 runs against Hawaii Hilo in the final game of the roadtrip, Duarte still shook the order up and made three key changes: Miguel Abascal started the game at DH while Brandon Cody hit leadoff with Joey Magro three spots behind Cody in cleanup.

All those moves worked out great for Biola, particularly in game one as that trio combined for six extra-base hits and all got involved in the Eagles' three-run inning in the bottom of the first.

After Cody smashed the second pitch of the game from Makaio Duyao off the top of the centerfield wall for a leadoff double, Magro and Abascal also doubled in the inning to help Biola take the early lead.

Senior Jerron Largusa also collected the first of his three run-scoring hits on the afternoon in that first inning with an RBI single. The left-fielder ended the day with four RBI's, two in the first game and two in the second, to give him a team leading 14 RBI's heading into Saturday's doubleheader.

He and Abascal combined to drive in three more runs the very next inning to push Biola's lead to 6-2 and cement the statement that the Eagles were all about the double to start off the series. The home team had six doubles after three innings in game one, with three coming in the third inning to score two more runs, to help push Biola's number of extra-base hits to 11 on the day.

In the meantime, freshman starter Larson Kindreich shook off two early homeruns on a windy day at Eagles Diamond to strikeout nine over eight innings and finish his outing by recording 11 outs in a row. The lefty only allowed four men to reach base safely and had just four three-ball counts during his 107-pitch start. But the final three innings were really Kindreich's best, as he delivered a seven-pitch sixth, struckout the side in the seventh on 14 pitches and didn't even throw two balls in a row during an eighth inning that he started with 95 pitches.

Joey Magro drove in the final run of game one in the fifth inning with his first homerun of the season and finished the game 3-for-4 with four extra-base hits. As the leadoff hitter, Cody reached safely in his first three plate appearances and score twice. And Abascal had the best hitting line in game one after he went 4-for-5 with two doubles and a team-best three RBI's.

Fast-forwarding to the fifth inning of game two, Duarte made another great adjustment with his lineup that seemed as if it might help the Eagles get a comeback victory. After Holy Names scored three runs on five hits in the fourth to take a 5-1 lead, five-consecutive Eagles reached safely in the fifth to close the gap to 5-3 and load the bases for Jackson Collins.

Duarte responded to the Hawks' call for a left-handed reliever by pinch-hitting Ryan Gallegos for Collins to get the platoon advantage, but at the risk of using Gallegos in a big spot after not seeing live pitching since February 28.

Gallegos rewarded that decision by pulling a double down the left-field line to tie the score at 5-5 with one out. But the Eagles weren't able to capitalize during the rest of the inning to take the lead and the Hawks responded by slugging their way to five more runs in the game, two of which came on solo homeruns the very next half inning.

RobertAnthony Cruz had the only multi-hit game for the Eagles in game two after hitting two doubles while Largusa led the team with two RBI's. Cruz carries a five-game hitting streak into Saturday and leads the team with seven extra-base hits on the season, all doubles.

These two teams return to Eagles Diamond on Saturday for another doubleheader scheduled to start at 11 a.m.
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