McMINNVILLE, Ore. - Taking on the defending Northwest Conference
champs and the favorite to win the 2009 crown, the Puget Sound
Loggers fell to the Linfield Wildcats, 12-2, in a non-conference
baseball game on Saturday at the Jim Doran Auto Classic in
McMinnville, Ore.
The Loggers got on the board first in the top of the first
inning when freshman Matt Cox (Salem, Ore./South Salem) doubled to
score Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash./Newport) to give Puget Sound a
brief 1-0 lead.
Linfield answered back with a run of their own in the bottom of
the inning and then exploded for six runs in the third inning to
open up a 7-1 lead. The Wildcats added two more runs in the
fifth inning to push the lead to 9-1.
Puget Sound scored again in the seventh inning when Will Mentor
(Seattle, Wash./Seattle Prep) singled in Mark Rockey (Mountlake
Terrace, Wash./New Mexico) but three more Linfield runs in the
eighth gave them the eventual 12-2 win.
Logger starter Cameron Duvall (Lakewood, Wash./Lakes) took the
loss for the Loggers, allowing five runs on seven hits with one
walk and one strikeout in two innings pitched. Spencer Crace
(Wilsonville, Ore.) pitched well in relief, throwing four innings
with three strikeouts and just one walk. Robert Vaughn
collected the win for Linfield, allowing just one run on six hits
with five walks in five and two-thirds innings pitched.
The Loggers, who fell to 1-1 on the weekend after having
defeated Concordia (Ore.) by a score of 9-6 on Friday, will
conclude the three-game weekend on Sunday when they take on
Whitman. First pitch with the Missionaries is set for 11:00
a.m. at Roy Helser Field in McMinnville, Ore.
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