PORTLAND, Ore. – Lewis & Clark College baseball earned their first sweep of the season with two wins over Vassar College on Saturday afternoon at Jerry Gatto Field.  
 
THE BASICS
 
Lewis & Clark 5, Vassar 1
Lewis & Clark 11, Vassar 6
(Lewis & Clark 8-8-1)
(Vassar 2-9)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Eight Pioneers recorded RBI on Saturday, with freshmen Bret Potter, Connor Broschard, and sophomore Ryan Sanderson leading the team with multiple RBI. Potter had two RBI in each game and finished the day with a run scored, a double and two walks. Broschard hit his first career home run in the sixth inning of game one to record his two RBI. All three of Sanderson's RBI came in game two while he played designated hitter.  
 
Sophomore Nate Kerr earned his first win of the season after entering game one early in the second inning. He threw four innings with just one earned run on three hits and two strikeouts. Senior Tyler Shimabukuro earned his first career save with two hitless innings and three strikeouts to close out the first game.
 
GAME ONE RECAP
 
Lewis & Clark and Vassar agreed to play only seven innings in game one of Saturday's doubleheader earlier in the week.
 
The Pioneers struck first in the bottom of the third inning. Senior Jack Savant singled through the right side to start the inning. Then, with one out, Brewer pitcher Addison Lee walked senior Jakob Ghammachi and junior Will Heron to load the bases. Potter chopped the 0-1 pitch back to the mound and Lee's through back home was high and wide, scoring Savant. Lee then walked sophomore Joaquin Sandoval to score the second run of the inning.    
 
Vassar cut the deficit to one in the fifth inning, as Jaden Millstein hit a double to right center. The next batter, Reid Lapekas, ripped one to the same spot for an RBI single.
 
Lewis & Clark were able to get that run back in the bottom of the inning. Lead-off hitter Ghammachi was walked, then advanced to second when the pitcher overthrew the ball to first and out of play. Ghammachi advanced another 90 feet when Heron grounded out to the shortstop. Potter hit the 2-2 pitch right at the second baseman, whose throw home was not in time to get Ghammachi, and the Pioneers took the 3-1 lead.
 
An inning later, freshman Gavin Mangano hit a one-out double to right field to put a runner on for the Pioneers. In his first collegiate start, Broschard stepped to the plate and sent the first pitch sailing over the left-center field fence for his first career home run on his first career hit.
 
Shimabukuro ended the game in the seventh with a groundout, strikeout, and flyout against the Brewers' bottom half of the order.
 
GAME TWO RECAP
 
The Pioneers played from behind through five innings for the first time all weekend. The Brewers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead on a two-run homer by Jack Silvera in the top of the first inning.
 
Sanderson earned his first RBI of the day in the bottom half of the first when he was walked with the bases loaded and two outs, cutting the lead to 2-1.
 
Vassar responded in the second with two more runs as Millstein hit a two-out, two-RBI single up the middle.
 
Lewis & Clark scored two of their own with two outs in the second when sophomore Brandon Gonzaga singled up the middle to score Savant from second. Two batters later Herron single to right center and scored Gonzaga to make it 4-3 Brewers after two.
 
Vassar extended their lead with an RBI double in the third inning and a lead-off home run to left center in the fourth inning. Lewis & Clark were held scoreless in both innings and were down 6-3 after four were completed.
 
Freshman Owen Eisen had his best inning of the start, retiring all three batters on flyouts.
 
Heron hit a long ball to centerfield to lead off the fifth inning. With the centerfield under the ball, it bounced out of his glove and Heron advanced to third on the error. Potter grounded out on the next at-bat but scored Heron in the process. Sanderson doubled to right field with only one out. Sandoval entered the game as a pinch hitter for starting catcher Justin Cavagnaro and singled through the left side. After a pitching change, Sandoval advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then freshman Tommy Valero hit a sacrifice fly to right center field, advancing Sandoval and scoring Sanderson for his first career RBI. Mangano took first after being hit by a pitch. Then, in a rare baseball double steal, Mangano safely took second, and Sandoval stole home to tie the game at six.
 
Junior Ryan Harvey entered the game to pitch in the top of the sixth inning. He retired the first four batters he faced, striking out two of them. He gave up only two hits, no runs, and walked one in his three innings.
 
With a new Brewers pitcher on the mound in the bottom of the eighth inning, Gonzaga hit a lead off double to right center for the Pioneers. Ghammachi then started the Lewis & Clark scoring run with an RBI single to left field to give the Pioneers their first lead of the second game. Heron hit another single and advanced Ghammachi to third to put runners on the corners. Potter then recorded his fourth RBI of the afternoon with a double down the right field line, scoring Ghammachi and advancing Heron to third. Sanderson recorded the first consecutive hit of the inning for Lewis & Clark with a two-RBI single up the middle. Valero was walked two batters later with two outs after Sandoval struck out swinging, and Sanderson was picked off. Mangano then hit the Pioneer's second triple of the afternoon and scored Valero to cap off a five-run, six-hit inning for Lewis & Clark.  
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Mangano recorded his first collegiate double and first career triple in back-to-back games on Saturday. He also had his first career steal in game two.  
• Shimabukuro earned his first career save in 39 career appearances. He has a 0.82 ERA in 11 innings this season.
• In game one of Saturday's doubleheader, Savant hit his first triple of the season and the second of his career.
• Gonzaga and Sanderson both recorded their first doubles of the season in game two.

WHO'S NEXT
 
The Pioneers will host Linfield next week at Jerry Gatto Field. The two teams will start with a doubleheader on Saturday, with the first pitch scheduled for noon.