FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Whitman College scored twice in the top of the tenth inning to take a 6-4 win over Pacific in Sunday afternoon baseball action at Chuck Bafaro Stadium, avoiding a series sweep.

Pacific, who won the first two games of the the series and secured a Northwest Conference tournament berth on Saturday, moved to 23-14 on the season. They ended NWC play with a 14-10 record, in a three-way tie for third place with Linfield and George Fox. Whitman finishes the year at 13-25 overall and 8-16 in conference action.

The Boxers earned the four seed in the four-team NWC Tournament and will play the top seed and host Whitworth at noon on Friday (April 22) in the double elimination format.

Whitman pieced together four hits, a sacrifice fly and a sacrifice bunt to plate two runs in the tenth to take the 6-4 lead. Reliever Milo Mincin, who pitched 3.1 very effective innings, fanned the final batter of the contest to end the game. He gave up just one hit to improve to 1-1 on the year.

It was Senior Day at Pacific, and appropriately record-breaking senior Walker Olis scored his team's first run in the first inning. He drew a two-out walk, his 39th of the season (school record) and then scored on Kurtis Kloke's double. Olis' 51 runs scored also pads his single-season Boxer record in that category. Kloke would hit another two-bagger in the third inning, putting his name in the record books as well (see below).

But Paul Heywood's two-run single gave Whitman a 4-2 lead in the third inning, chasing PU starter Nate Montgomery. That lead would stand until the sixth inning when J.T. Francies singled home Tanner Mansell to make it a 4-3 count.

Meanwhile, Kyler Knieriem pitched brilliantly out of the bullpen for the Boxers, going six innings, allowing only two hits, no runs and he fanned four. He pitched through the eighth inning, which by then Pacific had tied the game at 4-4 when Olis singled home Nathan Suyematsu.

Whitman starter Nick Johnson left the game at that point, bringing Mincin into the contest, shutting down the hosts the rest of the way and setting up the winning tenth inning for the visitors.

Kloke led the Boxers at the plate with a 3-for-5 performance, and his two doubles put him in the Boxer single-season record annals. He now has 19 on the season, breaking the previous mark of 18 set by Kaeo Lau Hee in 2010.

Francies and Ryan Sohn had two hits each for the Boxers, who had ten base knocks on the day. Anthony Lim led Whitman with three hits.

The nine Boxers playing in their final games at Chuck Bafaro Stadium were Suyematsu, Olis, Ben Duerr, Mansell, Francies, Justin Strayer, Mike Thomson, Sohn and Montgomery.