WALLA WALLA, Wash.—Whitman starting pitchers Julien Hernandez and Jack Hostetler combined to allow three runs over 15 innings and struck out 20 to help the Blues earn a doubleheader sweep of Lewis & Clark College baseball on Saturday afternoon. 

THE BASICS
Whitman 7, Lewis & Clark 5
Whitman 3, Lewis & Clark 1
(Lewis & Clark 17-18-1, Northwest Conference 8-12)
(Whitman 23-13, NWC 14-6) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Lewis & Clark outhit the hosts in both games but the NWC league-leaders used three multi-run innings to earn the sweep. 
 
Senior Jakob Ghammachi stayed red-hot with three hits and three RBI. The reigning NWC Position Player of the Week went 3-8 with a run scored, three RBI and his 10^th home run of the season. 
 
GAME ONE RECAP 
 
Whitman used a pair of run scoring triples and a three-run homer in the seventh to jump out to a 7-2 lead and the Blues held off a late Lewis & Clark charge to secure the game one win. 
 
Junior Will Heron led the Pioneers offense with three hits, a run scored and an RBI. Junior Justin Cavagnaro tacked on two hits, a run scored and an RBI. Senior Jack Savant chipped in two hits and a run scored and Ghammachi drilled a three-run homer. 
 
Senior Brett Pierson went 4.1 innings and allowed five hits, five walks and four runs scored. The senior added one strikeout. Sophomore Nate Kerr went the final 3.2 innings. He struck out three and allowed three hits and three runs. 
 
Hernandez, the reigning NWC Pitcher of the Year, went seven innings and scattered eight hits, four walks and two earned runs. The senior struck out six. 
 
Both teams put four runners on through the first three innings but neither team could scratch across a run. The Pioneers turned an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play in the first and used a line drive to second in the second to turn another double play. 
 
Lewis & Clark took their lone lead of the day in the fourth. Heron led off the frame with a double. With two down, Cavagnaro singled to left field to score Heron from second. 
 
Whitman responded with three runs of their own in the fourth. With one down and two runners on, Sam Mieszkowski-Lapping tied the game with an RBI single to center-field. Nate Korahais made it 3-1 with a two-run triple to right field. Pierson got out of a bases-loaded jam later in the frame with a pop-up to short. 
 
The Pioneers got back within one in the fifth. Brennen Davis opened the inning with a single and moved to second on a groundout. With two outs, Heron recorded his second of three hits against Hernandez to make it 3-2. Lewis & Clark loaded the bases with a Bret Potter walk and an error, but Hernandez induced a pop up to second. 
 
Whitman answered in the bottom of the inning. With one out and a runner on second, Halen Otte tripled to extend the advantage back to 4-2. With two on and out, Lewis & Clark posted their third double play of the game when Heron snagged a line drive and ran back to the bag for the third out.
 
The hosts blew the game open in the seventh. The first two batters reached on a single and a hit by pitch. With one out, Mieszkowski-Lapping hit a three-run home run to make it 7-2 Whitman. 
 
Lewis & Clark got to the Blues bullpen in the eighth. Cavagnaro opened the frame with a single and moved to third on a one-out Savant single. After Whitman reliever Russell Petersen recorded the second out, Ghammachi hit his fourth home run in the past three games to make it 7-5. Luke Bass walked to bring the game-tying run to the plate but Petersen retired the final four batters he faced to close out the win. 
 
GAME TWO RECAP 
 
Freshman Owen Eisen pitched extremely well but Hostetler struck out 14 and allowed just one run to finish off the sweep. 
 
Eisen limited the hosts to six hits, no walks and three runs over seven innings. He added four strikeouts. Junior Kyle Wilsie worked around a one-out walk to throw a scoreless eighth inning. Wilsie notched one strikeout. 
 
Hostetler threw a career-high eight innings and scattered seven hits, three walks and one run. He added a career-high 14 strikeouts to move to 6-1. 
 
Sophomore Brandon Gonzaga and Ghammachi each posted two hits for Lewis & Clark. Gonzaga went 2-4 with a run scored and a double and Ghammachi added a pair of hits. Bass went 1-2 with a pair of walks and Savant added an RBI single. 
 
Whitman grabbed the lead in the second inning. Brandon Ting doubled to start off the inning, took third on a ground out and scored on Mieszkowski-Lapping's RBI ground out. 
 
The Pioneers had their best chance to score early in the game in the fourth. Ghammachi led off with a single to center and stole second. Bass followed with a single to right field to put two on with no outs. Hostetler struck out the next batter and then induced a 5-4-3 inning-ending double play to get out of the jam. 
 
The Blues made it 3-0 in the fourth. Jack Bickerton kicked off the inning with a single and Garrett Runyan followed with a two-run homer. 
 
Lewis & Clark broke up the shutout bid in the seventh. With two down, Gonzaga doubled to left field and Savant followed with an RBI single to right to make it 3-1. 
 
The Pioneers put runners on in each of the final two innings but couldn't come through with the big hit. In the ninth, Lewis & Clark had two runners on with one out but Whitman reliever Wyatt Adams retired the final two batters to end the game. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Ghammachi is riding a five-game hitting streak (10-21) and has racked up five runs, eight RBI and four home runs. 
• The Pioneers recorded double-digit runners left on base in both games and finished the day with 22 left on base. 
• Savant is riding a five-game hitting streak of his own. The senior is 8-21 over the past five games with four runs and three RBI. 
• Ghammachi moved into a tie for sixth place in program history for career home runs (22) in game one. 
• Eisen's seven innings pitched in game two were the second most of his collegiate career. He went eight innings in a 3-2 win over Linfield on March 23. 

WHO'S NEXT 
 
The Pioneers will look to salvage the series on Sunday when they take on Whitman at Noon.