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Andrew Buglino tagging out a runner at the plate
Kyla McGuire
13
Winner Biola BU-BASE 25-16
3
Concordia CUI 17-23
Winner
Biola BU-BASE
25-16
13
Final
3
Concordia CUI
17-23
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Biola BU-BASE 2 2 3 0 1 0 5 0 0 13 18 0
Concordia CUI 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 10 5

W: Villegas, Anthony (5-2) L: VANSANT, BRETT (5-5)

5
Biola BU-BASE 25-17
7
Winner Concordia CUI 18-23
Biola BU-BASE
25-17
5
Final
7
Concordia CUI
18-23
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Biola BU-BASE 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 3
Concordia CUI 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 1 X 7 13 1

W: ZALASKY, ALEX (5-5) L: Burk, Dallas (1-2) S: BRANNOCK, MORGAN (4)

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

Strong Starts On Friday

Biola Baseball scores early in both ends of Friday’s doubleheader before splitting with Concordia one game apiece.

IRVINE, Calif. --- The Biola Eagles scored 18 runs and smashed nine extra-base hits in two games in Irvine on Friday to start the series with Concordia University Irvine.

Head Coach Justin Duarte's group got a great start from Anthony Villegas in their double-digit game one victory and jumped out to another 4-0 lead in game two. But the home team rallied to take the lead and stranded the tying run in scoring position to end the game with the bases loaded for Biola.

Biola's hitters saw the ball well and made solid contact all day long, collecting a total of 29 hits in 18 innings. The Eagles had already collected six hits after their first trip through the order and were up 4-1 after two innings in game one. Doubles in the first from Joey Magro and Jackson Collins were part of the two runs in the first while two more doubles from Brandon Cody and Connor Kostecka accomplished the same result in the second.

Cody, Collins and Kostecka all had great days at the plate on Friday. Cody and Kostecka each had five hits over the span of the two games while Cody and Collins each had multiple extra-base hits to bring them to the top of the team leaderboard for big hitting categories. With his homerun in the ninth inning of game two, Collins tied RJ Bates for the team lead in homeruns with seven while Cody matched Jerron Largusa and RobertAnthony Cruz for most extra-base hits on the team with 18.

Although the Eagles would keeping pour it on in game one, their first four runs would be all Anthony Villegas and company would need for the win. Villegas allowed just one run in five innings of working for the win and stranded five men on base during his start. Villegas' appearance also ended with a lot of excitement as Jerron Largusa started an inning-ending double play. After making the catch on a flyball to left, Largusa's throw home beat Haloa Dudoit to the plate by a full two steps and retired the runner after Andrew Buglino applied the tag.

Honus Kindreich, Chris Despars and Tyler Mead carried the Eagles on the mound over the last four innings to keep Concordia at bay. Despars now has 6.2 scoreless innings over his last three appearances after pitching 1.1 hitless innings while Mead closed down the ninth on just seven pitches.

The Eagles finished game one with six players collecting multi-hit games, including Buglino, who went 3-for-4 with two ribbies, and had every player in the starting lineup score at least one run.

In game two, Largusa extended his hitting streak to nine by collecting the first hit of the game with two outs in the first. He would be driven home immediately as RJ Bates blasted the ball over the left field fence. As mentioned earlier, Bates now has seven homeruns this season and all of them have been hit during road games.

Production from the bottom of the order put Biola up 4-0 as Caleb Watson and Andy Van Antwerp each drove in a run in the second. But Concordia came back by scoring seven unanswered runs to take control of the game.

The offense woke up for BU in the ninth as Collins homerun to inject some life early in the inning. Then Buglino singled in his only at-bat of game two before Cole Beemer was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Unfortunately, Concordia's closer induced two flyouts to strand the tying run in scoring position and finalize the doubleheader split.

The teams will return to Irvine to play another doubleheader that will begin at 12 noon on Saturday.
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