PORTLAND, Ore.—Junior Noah Ferruggia put together the best outing of his collegiate career, to lead Lewis & Clark College baseball to a doubleheader conference split with visiting Linfield University. 

The southpaw threw 5.2 innings of scoreless relief and the Pioneers bats went off behind him in an 11-5 game two victory. 

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KEY MOMENTS GAME ONE: LINFIELD 11-9 (10 INNINGS) 

The two teams resumed their halted game from February 26 with the Pioneers leading 8-4 in the bottom of the fourth inning. 

The lead wouldn't last long, as Linfield scored four unanswered runs to tie the game, scratched across another un in the eight to tie it again and added two in the tenth to hand the Pioneers a deflating 11-9 loss. 

Justin Cavagnaro (two runs), Jack Savant (one run) and Brennen Davis all finished with two hits and an RBI for the Pioneers in the loss. Jakob Ghammachi tacked on a run scored and two hits. Senior Jack Thomson finished the contest 1-3 with two runs, a team-high three RBI, a home run, two walks and a hit by pitch.

On the mound, Tyler Shimabukuro and Anthony Clerici combined to pitch three innings of one-run relief. Luke Ritter pitched 1.1 innings on the day and finished the contest allowing 15 hits, eight runs (four earned) over 5.1 innings. 

The game started off positively for the Pioneers back in February. Luke Bass (two-run) and Jack Thomson (three-run) each hit home runs and Lewis & Clark was leading 8-4 before the rain started coming down to hard to continue. 

Linfield came out hot with the bats on Tuesday and registered 15 of their 24 hits across the six innings played. They scored two runs with two outs in the fifth to cut the deficit to 8-6 and tied the game with two unearned runs in the sixth. 

Lewis & Clark scored their lone run of the game on Tuesday in the seventh. Cavagnaro doubled to put himself at second with two outs and Davis followed with an RBI single to left center.  

The Wildcats answered back with a suicide squeeze bunt in the top of the eighth inning to tie the game at nine.  

The hosts put runners on in the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings, but couldn't scratch across a run against Colton Meyer. 

Linfield scored a pair of runs with one out in the top of the tenth to take control. It could have been worse, but Brayden Nomura induced a fly ball to center and Davis' throw to first base beat the runner back to the bag-on what could have been a sacrifice fly. 

Lewis & Clark brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom half of the inning but the Wildcats turned two to end the game.  

KEY MOMENTS GAME TWO: LEWIS & CLARK 11-5  

Brett Pierson and Ferruggia limited the visitors to just two hits over 7+ innings and the Pioneers scored 11 runs in that span to earn a blowout NWC win. 

Ferruggia threw a season-high 5.2 innings and posted his longest career shutout outing. The junior allowed just one hit and one walk and struck out three to pick up his second collegiate victory. 

Pierson (1.2 innings) and Kyle Wilsie (one inning) also had scoreless appearances for the Pioneers. 

Casey Parsons led five Pioneers hitters who finished with two hits. The freshman shortstop went 2-4 with two runs, two RBI and a double.  

Mason Lee hit a two-run home run and Savant scored twice and added an RBI. Thomson and Ghammachi each posted two hits, a run scored and an RBI. 

The Pioneers scored single runs in the third and fourth, three runs in the fifth and then blew the game completely open with a six-run seventh. 

Blake Tellinghusen gave the hosts the lead for good with a sacrifice fly in the third that scored Parsons. 

Ghammachi made it 2-0 in the fourth when he ripped a double over the third-base bag to score Thomson from third base. 

In the fifth, Savant partially blew the game open with a two-run double to right-center. Savant scampered home two batters later when he scored from second on a fielder's choice and a throwing error. 

The hosts made it a laugher in the seventh. Lewis & Clark scored six runs on six hits in the inning. Thomson started the scoring with a single off the top of the wall in right field that plated Davis. Bass followed with an RBI single and Parsons made it 9-0 with a two-run double to left field. Lee capped off the inning with his second home run of the season, a two-run blast over the tall fence in right. 

Linfield finally got on the board in the eighth inning with a solo home run and added on four runs in the ninth to account for the final 11-5 score.  

DEEPER LOOK 

• Both of Ferruggia's collegiate victories have come against Linfield. Last season, he started and went six innings and allowed seven hits and one earned run in a 6-1 win at Linfield. 
• Savant and Ghammachi each had two hits in both ends of the doubleheader. 
• The Pioneers 13 hits in game two are their most hits in a conference home game this season and their most since the opening weekend of conference play when they posted 22 hits in a 20-2 win over Whitman. 
• With the win, the Pioneers now have the most wins (13-11) since the 2008 team finished 16-24. 
• Lewis & Clark sits in a tie for sixth in the NWC standings at 7-8. The Pioneers are just a game back of fourth-place Linfield (6-5) who took the conference series (2-1). The two sides split the season series 2-2, with the Pioneers winning a non-conference game at Linfield. 

WHO'S NEXT 

Lewis & Clark will have three days off, before they return to conference play this weekend against league-leaders Pacific Lutheran University. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at Noon.