{"id":89293,"date":"2025-03-22T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89293"},"modified":"2025-03-22T22:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T05:16:21","slug":"cougars-slugged-in-seventh-split-with-biola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=89293","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Smacked in Seventh; Split With Biola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jacob Hayes hit a two-run shot for the Cougars in the third inning to tie it at two. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Azusa) – Azusa Pacific had a one-run lead heading into the seventh inning but gave up four runs on back-to-back home runs and fell to Biola 9-6 Saturday at the Cougar Baseball Complex. With the loss the Cougars split a doubleheader as well as the four game series with the Eagles. <\/p>\n\n\n

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In the seventh inning with APU leading 6-5, Tyler Herges, who was the third pitcher for Azusa Pacific in the game, walked the first batter Johnny Tewinkle. He got the next hitter on a ground ball but then walked the next batter Nick Madole as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabe Jacobs came on to relieve Herges. Noah Ruiz then hit the first pitch he saw from Jacobs and belted it over the left field fence for three-run shot. For good measure Isaiah Leon followed with another tape measure bomb to left and just like that it was 9-6 Eagles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first pitch thrown by Gabe Jacobs in the seventh inning was hit for a three-run home run by Biola’s Noah Ruiz. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars did manage to get two runners on in the bottom of the seventh but left them stranded and the Eagles came away with the victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars had taken a 6-5 lead in the fifth when Mikey Easter hit a sacrifice fly to score Diego Frey who led off the inning with a single. APU held the Eagles scoreless in the sixth before the roof caved in in the seventh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biola jumped on Azusa Pacific starter Blake Hagerty for four hits and two runs in the first inning. Luke Caruso and Tewinkle had run-scoring singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars tied it in the third inning when Easter reached on an error and Jacob Hayes hit a two-run home run to right field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh McAninch homered in the fourth to give Biola a 3-2 lead but the Cougars immediately responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APU came up with three runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-3 lead. Antonio Lujan delivered the big hit with a two-run pinch hit single. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biola scrapped for two runs to get even in the fifth on three hits, a hit batter and an error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blake Hagerty started and worked into the fourth inning for the Cougars. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another lead change came in the bottom of the fifth when Azusa Pacific went up 6-5 before the Eagles iced it in the seventh with the consecutive shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biola used four pitchers overall. John Iacono started and went three and two-thirds innings. Dylan Alanis finished up for the Eagles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azusa Pacific also used four hurlers. Hagerty went the first three and two-thirds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the loss the Cougars dropped to 13-15 overall and 11-11 in the PacWest Conference. Biola improved to 13-14 and 10-10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Tim Peterson (Azusa) – Azusa Pacific had a one-run lead heading into the seventh inning but gave up four runs on back-to-back home runs and fell to Biola 9-6 Saturday at the Cougar Baseball Complex. With the loss the Cougars split a doubleheader as well as the four game series with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89317,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89293\/revisions\/89317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}