The Pacific baseball team will play for the 2025 Northwest Conference title.
The Boxers defeated Puget Sound 7-2 Friday afternoon to advance to Saturday's championship game.
Pacific fifth-year senior
Davis Koester delivered the first blow, hitting a towering two-run homer to left field to give the Boxers a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning.
After the Loggers tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the fourth,
Vincent Lagatta gave the lead back to Pacific in the bottom of the inning, scoring on an RBI double to deep center field by
Riz Collado, who then scored on a fielder's choice ground ball by
Binyam Gebhardt.
Benjamin Lewis added a two-run homer in the fifth inning to extend the Boxers lead to 6-2.
Governor Aufranc earned the win for Pacific, allowing seven hits and two runs over six innings.
William Merriott shut out the Loggers over the final three innings to record the save.
Koester went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs to lead the Boxers at the plate.
Pacific, the 2025 NWC regular season champions and 2021 and 2022 tournament champs, will play in the championship game for the fourth time in five years.
The Boxers will play Whitworth at noon after the Pirates battled through the loser's bracket Friday with wins over Linfield and Puget Sound.
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