SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Lewis & Clark Pioneers ended their 2021 season with a pair of wins in the final doubleheader of the year against the Whitworth Pirates on Friday at Merkel Field.

Zack Kon went 3 for 4 and three Pios had two RBI apiece in an 8-7 win to open play. The Pios scored three runs in the eighth inning on their way to the win.

Luke Bass and David Schmidt went deep, Tyler Gannon finished 4 for 5 with three RBI and Tyler Shimabukuro picked up his first collegiate win in a 13-10 victory to end the day.

Lewis & Clark ends the season with a 9-23 overall record.

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Key Moments | Game 1

Lewis & Clark held several leads throughout the game before the eighth-inning rally led to the win. Dylan Moore hit a lead-off home run to give the Pios a 1-0 edge early. Jack Savant's RBI double in the second extended the Pios lead to two. Kon's fifth homer of the season brought in two during the third inning and boosted the Pios advantage to 4-1.

Beginning with the second inning, Whitworth scored at least one run in four straight innings. Dawson Warner's fourth-inning home run put the Pirates ahead 5-4. Gannon evened the game with an RBI single in the fifth. 

Trailing 7-5 into the eighth, Henry Goodier led off with a single, Justin Bailey hit a one-out single and Moore reached on a fielder's choice to score one. Jack Thomson hit a home run to give the Pios the lead, his career-best sixth homer of the season.

Cristian Panaro earned the pitching win for the Pios. He threw two innings, allowed one hit and one walk. Stephen Baker picked up the save with two scoreless innings and a strikeout.

Key Moments | Game 2

Shimabukuro threw four innings, allowed four runs on six hits and struck out two as the Pioneers totaled 13 runs on 17 hits in the finale. Lewis & Clark only trailed after an RBI single by the Pirates in the first inning.

Michael Contreras, Sam Helms and Kon each had a double, while Gannon picked up two in his 4 for 5 hitting performance with three RBI. Bass finished with three RBI, while Contreras and Schmidt had two RBI apiece. Sammy Benbow went 1 for 2. 

Moore earned the save after Whitworth scored two in the seventh inning.