GAME ONE

GAME TWO

PARKLAND, Wash. - In two polar opposite games, the Lewis & Clark baseball team dropped both games on its Northwest Conference double-header against the Pacific Lutheran Lutes on Saturday afternoon in Parkland, Wash. The Lutes earned a 23-2 victory in the first game, before battling the Pioneers through 11 innings to pull out a 4-3 win.

The Pioneers fall to 9-23 on the season and 6-17 in conference play. The Lutes improve to 29-7 overall and 17-3 in the NWC.

Game one was never close with the Lutes scoring five runs in the first inning. The Pioneers earned a run back in the third inning on a sacrifice fly by Parker Dane that brought Guiseppe Bafarro into score. Unfortunately for the Pioneers, the Lutes would go onto score 18 runs over the next six innings, including three runs each from the fourth through seventh frames.

Game two was drastically different than the first, with the two teams battling through 11 innings in order to find a victor. Junior pitcher Alex St. Pierre had a tremendous showing on the mound for the Pioneers, pitching 10 innings, allowing just three runs on eight hits, while striking out five.

The Lutes held a 3-0 lead before the Pioneers were able to get on the board. Bafarro and Michael Ball came around to score for the Pioneers in the top of the eighth inning, pulling the Pioneers within one run, on a single by Eliot Smith.

Roland Greene tied the game in the ninth inning, after reaching base on a double. St. Pierre and the Pioneers were able to retire the Lutes in the bottom of the ninth sending the game to extra innings.

Pacific Lutheran was able to get the deciding run in the 11th inning after the lead-off batter came around to score.

The Pioneers and Lutes will battle again on Sunday, April 25 at noon in the final game of the three game Northwest Conference series.