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Jakob Ghammachi leading off second base
Julie Ward Jones
6
Bushnell University BUSHNELL 12-9
8
Winner Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 16-7
Bushnell University BUSHNELL
12-9
6
Final
8
Lewis & Clark LEWIS &
16-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bushnell University BUSHNELL 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 6 11 1
Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 8 8 0

W: Clerici, Anthony (1-1) L: T. Hammond (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Brian Hauge

Thomson Walk-Off Homer Lifts Baseball Over Beacons

Junior Jakob Ghammachi hits 3-4 with home run and two RBI.





PORTLAND, Ore. – Lewis & Clark College baseball hit three home runs, including a walk-off, two-run home run from senior Jack Thomson, to win the rubber match over Bushnell University in non-conference play Sunday afternoon.
 
THE BASICS
Lewis & Clark 8, Bushnell 6
(Lewis & Clark 16-7, 6-5 NWC)
(Bushnell 12-9, 0-0 CCC)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Junior Jakob Ghammachi, senior Dylan Moore, and Thomson each hit a two-run home run to score six of the Pioneers' eight runs, while senior Kris Wuelfing pitched 5.2 innings allowing six hits, three runs, and four strikeouts, to lead Lewis & Clark to their fifth three-game series victory of the season.  
 
For the third game in a row, Bushnell started the scoring in the first inning, this time with a left-field RBI single by Cade Crist. The Pioneers answered back with Ghammachi's homer into left-center in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead.
 
Crist tied the game in the fourth inning with a solo shot over the left-field fence. In the bottom of the inning, sophomore Justin Cavagnaro doubled to left-center and drove in Moore to retake the lead. The Pios' next batter, freshman Brandon Gonzaga hit an RBI sacrifice fly to center field, as fellow freshman Ryan Sanderson tagged up third and then safely slid into home to go up 4-2.
 
Bushnell's Kyle Caperson hit an RBI single in the sixth inning to pull the Beacons within 4-3, ending Wuelfing's longest outing of the season, where he faced 26 batters and threw 97 pitches. Junior Tyler Shimabukuro entered the game and closed out the inning when the Beacons' Daniel Furman fouled out to sophomore first baseman Will Heron.
 
The Beacons took the lead for the first time in the seventh on back-to-back RBI singles to go up 5-4. The Pioneers regained the lead in the bottom of the eight on Moore's two-run shot over the left field fence.
 
In the top of the ninth inning, down to their last strike, Bushnell's Dylan Carson hit a solo home run over the right-center field fence off Pioneer closer Anthony Clerici to tie the game at six.
 
The Pios top of the order started it off in the bottom of the inning. Senior Jack Savant connected on his first hit of the game, a single to right center, to bring up Thomson. Down 1-2 in the count, Thomson ripped his first collegiate walk-off homer over the fence in right-center, underneath the scoreboard to secure the 8-6 win.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
  • Thomson's walk-off home run was his 12th of the season, and he leads all of Division III. He is now one home run shy of tying the program record for career home runs (39) and three homers shy of tying the program's record for home runs in a season (15). 
  • Ghammachi was a triple shy of hitting for the cycle in Sunday's game, finishing 3-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.
  • The Pioneers handed the Beacons their first series loss of the season.
  • Moore finished 2-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.
  • Lewis & Clark is off to their best start in over 30 years.
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark travels to McMinnville for a Northwest Conference doubleheader against Linfield at Noon and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday  
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