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Kyla McGuire
5
Fresno Pacific FPU 9-17, 5-8 PacWest
11
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 16-12, 8-9 PacWest
Fresno Pacific FPU
9-17, 5-8 PacWest
5
Final
11
Biola University BU-BASE
16-12, 8-9 PacWest
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fresno Pacific FPU 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 9 0
Biola University BU-BASE 0 1 0 4 0 3 2 1 X 11 11 2

W: Englert, Brayden (2-2) L: Boatman, Nic (1-5)

11
Winner Fresno Pacific FPU 10-17, 6-8 PacWest
9
Biola University BU-BASE 17-13, 8-10 PacWest
Winner
Fresno Pacific FPU
10-17, 6-8 PacWest
11
Final
9
Biola University BU-BASE
17-13, 8-10 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fresno Pacific FPU 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 11 10 1
Biola University BU-BASE 0 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 14 3

W: Lackey, Andrue (1-0) L: Ludeman, Josh (2-2) S: Anton, Kobie (1)

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

Offense Continues To Smash

Biola Baseball scores 20 runs across a doubleheader split with Fresno Pacific to open up the four-game series.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Friday's doubleheader at Eagles Diamond only added to the storied history between the Fresno Pacific Sunbirds and Biola Eagles. It's been a matchup that has seen record-setting accomplishments on both sides and general zaniness since the teams started meeting since 2006, and the trend continued on both counts with FPU and Biola splitting the first two games of the series.

Biola scored a total of 20 runs over the first half of the series and chased Sunbirds' starter Nic Boatman in the sixth of a 11-5 win in the series opener. But Fresno Pacific responded with an unlikely nine-run comeback in the second part of the doubleheader to take the second game 11-9.

After Friday's action, Biola is 17-13 on the season and 8-10 in PacWest play. But the Eagles also set a new program record by hitting a homerun in both games on Friday, giving them a streak of 12 games where they've hit at least one homerun. That mark bests the 11-straight games that the 2006 team hit a homerun to conclude its season, which was the previous program record using available information that dates back to 2004.

Fresno Pacific actually started the series with a 3-0 lead after an inning and a half in game one and was up 3-1 through three innings. But the Eagles turned the tide of the game with great relief pitching from Brayden Englert and a four-run fourth that gave Biola the lead.

Englert earned his second win of the year after throwing 90 pitches in seven innings of relief of Larson Kindreich. Englert created a lot of week contact over his appearance, inducing eight groundouts and 10 flyouts while allowing just two runs and walking none.

Biola's hitters picked Englert up by collecting five hits through the first six batters of the fourth inning to go up 4-3. Jackson Collins and Joey Magro both had run-scoring hits to take the lead before Andrew Buglino delivered an excellent squeeze bunt to score the fourth run of the inning. The hits for Collins and Magro were the beginnings of very good days at the plate for both men.

The duo recorded the only multi-hits games for Biola in game one as Collins went on to reach safely four times on Friday while Magro mixed in a triple and a homerun among his five hits. Collins will start Saturday's doubleheader a team-best .473 on-base percentage and 19 RBI's to come alongside Magro's team-best .356 batting average and 21 RBI's. Magro's average just clipped Jerron Largusa's .355 mark after the outfielder had three hits on Friday.

The Eagles put game one out of reach with three two-outs in the sixth coming off an Anj Bourgeois double, a single from Brandon Cody and a wild pitch. Then Ryan Gallegos hit a two-run bomb on a 1-2 offspeed pitch in the seventh for his third homerun of the season.

Biola took a big advantage in game two with a bevy of scoring in the early innings and another great start from left-hander Troy Stainbrook. Although the Sunbirds comeback left Stainbrook with a no-decision, there was no question from fans on both sides that the senior was dominant over his five innings of work. Stainbrook stacked up eight strikeouts and 14 empty swings over 68 pitches while allowing just two hits and an unearned run.

The left-hander eclipsed his strikeouts total of 52 from 2018 on Friday, lowered his ERA to the second-best mark in the conference at 2.18 and raised his rate for strikeouts-per-nine-innings to 11.5.

After each of the first three hitters in the second reached for Biola, Magro singled to bring in the first two runs of the game against Justin Fuson. Fuson clawed back by getting two outs, but the Eagles got three more hits, including a triple from Brandon Cody that banged off the centerfield wall, to push their lead 6-0.

A homerun from Magro in the third and back-to-back doubles from RJ Bates and Collins made it a 9-0 lead for Biola and rested the Eagles scoring average at home to 12.4 runs per game over the past four weeks at Eagles Diamond. Biola also has 50 extra-base hits in the 12 games its played over that span.

Not to be lost in the shuffle of the Sunbirds ninth-inning comeback was three innings of excellent relief from Joey Leavitt that held Biola's 9-2 lead through eight innings. Leavitt threw the first nine pitches of his outing for strikes and allowed just one run over three innings, his longest relief appearance of the season.

The teams will start Saturday's doubleheader at 12 noon.
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