McMINNVILLE, Ore. - Seniors Jarvis Nohara (Honolulu, Hawai'i/Iolani) and Mark Rockey (Mountlake Terrace, Wash./Univ. of New Mexico) each hit a pair of home runs but the Puget Sound Loggers dropped a pair of games on Saturday at the Jim Doran Auto Classic at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. The Loggers fell to Corban, 9-6, in the opener before falling to host Linfield, 6-3, in the nightcap.

In the opener, neither team found a way to get a run across in the first three frames but the Loggers were able to open up the scoring in the top of the fourth when Will Mentor (Seattle, Wash./Seattle Prep) singled through the right side to score Nohara from second. Corban answered back with two runs in the top of the fourth and then exploded for five runs in the fifth to take a 7-1 lead.

Nohara led off the top of the sixth with a home run to pull the Loggers within five runs but Corban again answered with a pair to pull ahead, 9-2. The Loggers bats came alive again in the eighth inning when Rockey homered to center and then Jason Powell (Redwood City, Calif./Sacred Heart Prep) singled through the right side to score Matt Cox (Salem, Ore./South Salem from third).

The Loggers added two more run in the top of the ninth on a two-run home run by Nohara, his second of the game, that also scored Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash./Newport) as the Loggers got within three but it was too little, too late as the maroon and white took the 9-6 loss. Senior James Lane (Silverdale, Wash./Central Kitsap) took the loss, allowing seven runs, five earned, on eight hits in five innings with a pair of strikeouts and a pair of walks.

In the nightcap, the Loggers found themselves in a bit of a pitcher's dual as the two teams combined for just four hits in the first three innings. Linfield broke open the scoring in the top of the fourth with a solo home run by Rhett Fenton. The Wildcats broke the game open in the top of the sixth, scoring four runs on four hits with an error to pull ahead by five runs.

The Loggers got on the board in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run home run by Rockey that also scored Nohara as Puget Sound tightened the gap to 5-2. Linfield used a home run in the top of the seventh to put the score at 6-2 but the Logger answered in the bottom of the frame as Casey Coberly (Boise, Idaho) scored from second on a throwing error but the Loggers wouldn't touch home plate the rest of the way as they fell to the 'Cats, 6-3.

Senior Tim Fogarty (Pacifica, Calif./Sacred Heart Prep) took the loss, allowing five runs, four of them earned, on seven hits in six innings pitched. Nohara finished the day five-of-nine from the plate with four runs scored and three RBIs.

The Loggers will be back in action on Sunday afternoon when they take on Pacific Lutheran at Noon and then Whitman at 3:00 p.m.