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Joey Leavitt pitching baseball
Kyla McGuire
2
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 2-5
3
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 8-1
UC Colorado Springs UCCS
2-5
2
Final
3
Biola University BU-BASE
8-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 8 1
Biola University BU-BASE 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 X 3 1 0

W: Kindreich, Honus (1-0) L: Jon Sotto (0-2)

1
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 2-6
2
Winner Biola University BU-BASE 9-1
UC Colorado Springs UCCS
2-6
1
Final
2
Biola University BU-BASE
9-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
Biola University BU-BASE 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 2 3 3

W: Mead, Tyler (1-0) L: Creede Jeffers (0-1)

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

Week Off Well Earned

Even with a total of four hits on the day, Biola Baseball won both parts of Saturday’s doubleheader.

LA MIRADA, Calif. --- It may not have been the brand of hitting the Eagles go out intending to produce. But at the end of a long week the Biola Boys will take two more gritty wins to improve to 9-1 on the season and end their five-game week with a 5-0 record.

After the teams combined for 11 extra-base hits and rolled out starting pitchers who racked up strikeouts on Friday, all 17 innings of Saturday's action was unorthodox by comparison. Less brute force in favor of mental toughness and fortitude. 

That trend started with the six innings of work put in by both team's starters in game one. Eagles starter Joey Leavitt started the game with 1.2 perfect innings and retired 14 batters on three pitches or less to get through his first six frames on just 60 pitches. 

The senior righty needed just two strikeouts to complete his first quality start of the year. 

But from the other dugout, Colorado Spring starter Jonathan Cowles threw six no-hit innings and stranded three men in scoring position after giving up for walks. Then hard stuff from the reliever coming after Cowles forced Biola to score its first run of the day in the seventh without the benefit of a hit: Jacob Portaro advanced to third base on a productive out from Jackson Collins and scored on a sacrifice fly from Connor Kostecka to bring the game back even at 1-1. 

The Mountain Lions started to build a comeback in the next half inning with a leadoff double. But junior right-hander Honus Kindreich came into the ball game to face the next three hitters and stranded that runner on second base with a strikeout and two flyouts.

Kindreich earned his first win of the year after following Biola's two-run eighth inning with three more outs in the ninth. Jacob Portaro walked with the bases loaded to score the first run before RobertAnthony Cruz scored on a passed ball during the next at-bat.

The Eagles got their only hit of the ball game amidst that eighth inning. Designated hitter Ryan Gallegos smashed a ball to the left side that was too much for the third baseman to handle for the base knock, keeping his hitting streak alive that rests at seven games after Gallegos hit a solo homerun in the bottom of the first inning in game two.

Part two of the doubleheader was just as tight as game one thanks to another good day from Biola's relievers. Andrew Beauvais gave up a single unearned run as the Eagles' starter, but was otherwise sharp in his three innings of work. He showed good command of the fastball and allowed one hit in his second appearance of the week.

Anthony Villegas followed up with two scoreless and ended the fifth innings with a strikeout that stranded a man at third base. Johnathan Robinson got two quick outs before deferring to Tyler Mead for the final four outs of the game.

Mead started his appearance with a bases-loaded strikeout coming on Mead's big looping breaking ball. Then Cruz capitalized on the momentum in the bottom half of the sixth with a high flyball that just kept carrying over the left field fence that gave Biola a 2-1 lead.
That's when the sophomore right-hander came out to finish the game with back-to-back strikeouts with a runner in scoring position to wrap up the game for Biola. It's Mead's first win of his collegiate career.
 
The Eagles won't play another home game until March 13. They'll use the next week to recoup and prepare for a long Hawaii road trip during which Biola plays Hawaii Hilo and Hawaii Pacific.
 
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