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16
Winner Biola BU-BASE 3-0
15
MSU Denver MSUD 1-3
Winner
Biola BU-BASE
3-0
16
Final
15
MSU Denver MSUD
1-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Biola BU-BASE 0 1 0 5 4 0 1 5 0 16 15 3
MSU Denver MSUD 4 2 4 0 0 1 0 4 0 15 9 3

W: Cody, Carson (1-0) L: Reichle Arcilise (0-1) S: Bennett, Caleb (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ethan McGarvey, Sports Information Director

A Wild Win

The Eagles took home the game one win on Thursday with a wild 16-15 victory at MSU Denver.

DENVER, Colo. --- The ups and downs of Thursday's game one was like a roller coaster. Biola (3-0) baseball overcame a 10-1 deficit, before staving off a MSU Denver (1-3) comeback attempt. The Eagles finished off the first game of the day with a 16-15 win, following a near four-hour contest.

Biola traveled to Denver for a pair of doubleheaders between Thursday and Friday at the Assembly Athletic Complex. The series opener did not disappoint with 31 runs, 24 hits, and four home runs combined between the two teams.

The early going did not favor the Eagles, who found themselves in a hole. 10 runs in the first three innings for the Roadrunners put the BU squad on the back foot. A single run in the second frame put BU on the board though, as the team fell behind by nine at 10-1.

The BU offense responded in the fourth and fifth, completely eliminating their deficit in the two at bats. 

In the fourth inning, the Eagles earned their way to first base by walk or hit by pitch five times on the way to five runs. AJ Ortiz, Andrew Lujan, and Gavin Ayers capitalized with RBI singles, as BU pulled their way back into the game. 

A hit by pitch began the team's next at bat but the top of the lineup kicked off a hitting spree. Bobby Brown doubled, setting up a two-RBI single from Ortiz. Wyatt Duncan came to the dish next and offered another BU double for another BU score. The game tying run stepped on home with a James Whitman single, resetting the game at 10-10 in the fifth inning.

MSU Denver retook the lead in the sixth with a triple but only held a mere 11-10 advantage heading into the final stretch.

Biola quickly responded in the top of the seventh. Whitman added his second hit of the day with a double down the left field line and was followed by Ayers with a single. The Eagles put on the squeeze play and worked it to perfection, as Taylor Justus brought in Whitman for the tying run.

The eighth frame saw the BU power take control. An Austin Carillo double was the appetizer before Brown, Whitman and Ayers all left the yard for home runs. Whitman and Ayers went back-to-back to help the Eagles to a 16-11 advantage.

The roadrunners were not out of juice just yet and answered with a four-run bottom of the eighth.

In came Caleb Bennett to shut it down on the mound. The righty recorded the final out of the eighth and maintained the BU lead with a scoreless ninth. He struck out the final two batters of the contest, one with the help of a pitch clock violation on MSU Denver for strike three.

Whitman continued his strong start to 2024 with another three-hit effort and a homer. The sophomore logged three RBI and a home run with a stolen base.

Ayers also tallied three hits to go along with multiple hit performances from Brown, Ortiz, and Luke Caruso. 

BU is right back on the diamond in the afternoon for game two in Denver on Thursday.
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