PORTLAND, Ore.—For the second-consecutive day, Lewis & Clark College baseball and UMass Boston engaged in a pitcher's duel until the final innings at Jerry Gatto Field. 
 
THE BASICS
UMass Boston 1, Lewis & Clark 1
(Lewis & Clark 5-8-1) 
(UMass Boston 3-2) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The Pioneers pitchers and defense allowed one earned run over eighth innings, before UMass Boston blew the game open with six runs in the top of the ninth inning. 
 
Freshman Owen Eisen went six innings for the second time in his collegiate career. He allowed four hits, three walks and three unearned runs and struck out four. 
 
Freshman Shane Buchbinder was the first reliever out of the bullpen and posted his first collegiate scoreless outing. The righty went one inning and allowed one walk in his third appearance. 
 
Freshman Michael Aikawa led the Pioneers with two hits in four at-bats. He recorded a double and a run scored.
 
Junior Will Heron recorded a single and a walk and senior Jakob Ghammachi added a single. 
 
UMass Boston took advantage of three errors in the first three innings to jump out to a 2-0 lead. With one out, Justin Gouveia reached on an error and raced all the way home on an Aidan Blake double. Blake moved up to third base when the throw home was off line and then scored on a ground out to second base. 
 
The Beacons made it 3-0 in the second thanks to a single, a failed pickoff throw and a pair of groundouts. 
 
After going down 1-2-3 in the first two innings against Beacons starter Max Moss, Aikawa roped a double to right-center to open the third. He took third base on a strike three wild pitch that bounced back to the backstop. Freshman Gavin Mangano hit a cue shot grounder to first that was hit slowly enough to score Aikawa to make it 3-1. 
 
With Eisen settling in and keeping the Beacons off the scoreboard, Lewis & Clark had two great chances to tie the game in the middle innings. 
 
In the fourth, Brandon Gonzaga led off the walk and Heron followed with a one-out single through the right-side that sent Gonzaga all the way to third. Freshman Bret Potter followed with a walk to load the bases but Moss induced an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play. 
 
The Pioneers put multiple runners on again in the sixth. Ghammachi started the rally with a one-out single up the middle and Heron followed with a walk. After a fielder's choice put runners at the corners with two down, Justin Cavagnaro hit a fly ball to the deepest part of the ballpark and the ball was caught at the wall in center. 
 
UMass Boston tacked on a single run in the eighth thanks to a walk, a wild pitch and a pair of perfectly placed ground balls. The Beacons added six more runs in the ninth to put the game out of reach. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Aikawa's two-hit game was his second career multi-hit contest and his first since the team's second game of the season. 
• Eisen posted his second collegiate start allowing no earned runs. The freshman has recorded a 3.98 earned run average through his first 20.1 collegiate innings. 
• Heron posted at least one hit in every game this weekend and went 4-11 with two runs scored, a walk, two hit by pitches, a double and an RBI. 

WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will host Vassar College in their final weekend of non-conference action. The Pioneers will take on the Brewers beginning with a single game on Friday at 3 p.m.