FOREST GROVE, Ore. – The Pacific University baseball team dropped the series to Whitman University despite a convincing 12-1 victory on Saturday. 

Top Performers

• Kahi Bisho tossed six innings on Saturday tallying three strikeouts and allowing only one run. 

• Tyler Quinn went four for five on Saturday leading the Boxers in hits on the weekend. 

• Hunter Edwards pitch a season-high four innings on Sunday holding the Blues to just two hits. 

Game 1

The visiting Blues tallied the first runs of game one in the bottom half of the second hitting three consecutive singles to take the 4-0 lead. 

The Boxers were held to just two hits in the first four innings before CJ Colyer smashed a double to left center field plating Ty Yukumoto and Dawson Tokishi in the fifth. 

Whitman would extend their lead to seven in the seventh and would hold the hosts hitless in the final four innings to earn the 9-2 victory. 

Game 2

The Boxers got things started early in game two, Tyler Quinn's single to right field advanced Tokishi to scoring position before a hit from Colyer would push Tokishi across the plate. Walker Matthews stepped up to the plate and would find a hit to drive in Quinn.  

Matthew Gibbs would extend the lead to three for the Boxers blasting a solo home run in the second inning, his second of the season. 

Whitman would cut the deficit to two in the third but the Red and Black would quickly respond with a homer from Lovings and a single from Yukumoto that would add three more runs to the scoreboard for the Boxers. 

Kahi Bisho had a solid outing on the mound holding the visiting Blues to one run in his seven innings pitched to earn the win before handing the ball over to Joey Harmon who closed out the seventh inning with back-to-back strikeouts. Aiden Kerns pitched the final inning for Boxers holding the Blues hitless, tallying another pair of back-to-back strikeouts. 

A pair of fielding errors advanced Andrew Thomas and got Gibbs on base before a single from Quinn would extend the Boxer's lead to seven. A pair of RBI doubles from Koester and Quinn would put the game away for the Boxers in the bottom half of the seventh. The Boxers would add one more run in the eighth to take the 12-1 victory into day two. 

Game 3

After a scoreless six innings, the visiting team would tally the first run of the game in the top half of the seventh. An inning later Colyer would tie up the game with a single to left-center but a big final inning for the Blues would extend their lead to four to earn the game-three victory, 5-1.

Up Next
The Boxers play George Fox in a single game on Wednesday, March 29th at 1 P.M. 

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