Boxers Drop Pair At NWC-Cascade Challenge
Pacific/Corban Box Score |
Pacific/Linfield Box Score
McMINNVILLE, Ore. – A four-hit day for freshman
Walker Olis (Fr., Burlington, Wash.) was not enough to lead Pacific to their first win of the season Saturday as the Boxers dropped both of their games in the NWC-Cascade Challenge at Roy Helser Field.
Pacific could not hold off a Corban comeback in the opener as the Warriors tied the game in the top of the ninth and then scored the winner on a Boxers' error in the 10th for the 5-4 victory. Olis had two of just three Pacific hits in the nightcap as tournament co-host Linfield posted a 4-0 shutout of the Boxers.
Olis had two hits in both games.
Anson Arakaki (Sr., Hilo, Hawaii) had three hits and a RBI in the opener while
Trux French (Sr., Kennewick, Wash.) had two hits against Corban. With the losses, Pacific dropped to 0-5 on the season.
CORBAN 5, PACIFIC 4
Corban opened scoring in the top of the first as two of the Warriors' first three batters got hits off of
Rob Dittrick (Sr., Mililani, Hawaii). Marc Gallegos led off the game with a double and scored on Jordan Johnansen's single to right.
The two teams combined for just two hits over the next three innings before Corban scored two more in the fifth. Gallegos led off the frame with a single and later scored when he crossed home on a double steal attempt that saw Johansen tagged out at second. Lance Foster then reached base on an error and scored two batters late on Matt Hamlin's single up the middle.
Charlie Gaff (Fr., Stockton, Calif.) and
Dan Jaffe (Jr., Las Vegas, Nev.) accounted for Pacific's two runs in the fifth. Jaffe reached on a one-out single, Gaff walked and both scored by way on an error. Arakaki scored the Boxers' lone run in the seventh, leading off with a bunt single and scoring on
Nick Tasaka's (Sr., Hawaii Kai, Hawaii) single down the left field line.
Pacific then used some power to take the lead in the bottom of the eighth when Olis homered to left center field, the Boxers' first of the year.
The Warriors (8-1) tied the game in the top of the ninth as pinch-hitter Andy Hill led off with a double off Pacific reliever
Nick Morton (Fr., Burbank, Calif.) and scored when Hamlin singled off of closer
Quin Moore (Jr., Bellingham, Wash.). Gallegos plated the winning run in the 10th as he singled, advanced to third on a failed pick-off move and scored on a one-out single by Johansen.
Storm Ransom earned the win for Corban, allowing one run on three hits in three innings of relief. Moore took his second loss of the season, allowing one run on two hits with a strikeout in two innings. Dittrick allowed three runs, two earned, on nine hits with a walk and three strikeouts in five innings. Johansen went 4 for 6 with two RBIs to lead the 16-hit Corban performance.
LINFIELD 4, PACIFIC 0
Pacific could get little offense together against Linfield, managing just three hits in a preview of their Northwest Conference season-opening series next weekend.
Linfield opened the game with a bang as Tim Wilson smashed a triple down the right field line to lead-off the bottom of the first and scored on Nate McClellan's sacrifice fly. Jake Wylie made it a 2-0 game in the fourth when he singled and scored on Clayton Truex's single up the left side of the infield.
Wilson hit his second double of the game in the fifth, which allowed Nick Fisher to score in the fifth. The Wildcats scored their final run in the sixth when McClellan double to open the frame and scored on Kramer Lindell's single up the left side.
Olis had Pacific's first hit in the second. The Boxers put two men on the fifth on singles from Olis and Jaffe, but could not advance a runner past second base. Pacific had two more base runners the rest of the game, coming on walks in the seventh and eighth.
Starter Zach Manley earned the win for Linfield, allowing just three hits and striking out two in five innings.
Kyle Treadway (So., Phoenix, Ore.) took his third loss of the season, allowing four runs on nine hits with a strikeout in six innings of work. Wylie and Wilson each went 3 for 4 to lead the Wildcats offensively.
Pacific will conclude their run at the NWC-Cascade Challenge on Sunday as they face George Fox in Newberg.
