PORTLAND, Ore. - Senior Mark Rockey (Mountlake Terrace, Wash./Univ. of New Mexico) used a three-run home run in the top of the first to set a new career home run mark as the Puget Sound Loggers beat the Lewis & Clark Pioneers, 12-6, in a Northwest Conference baseball game on Sunday in Portland, Ore.

After Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash./Newport) singled to start the game and Chaz Kramer (Boulder, Colo./Silver Creek) drew a walk, Rockey stepped to the plate and hit his 24th career home run over the wall in left-center to climb past Michael Olsen for the top spot on the career home runs list as the Loggers took the 3-0 lead.

Senior Jason Powell (Redwood City, Calif./Sacred Heart Prep) led off the top of the second with a solo home run and then Kramer singled down the left field line to score Stephen Kelsey (Seattle, Wash./Ballard) as the Loggers built the lead up to 5-0.  A two-RBI double by Resnik in the top of the third to put the Loggers up by seven.

Lewis & Clark finally got the bats going in the bottom of the fifth as they put four runs on the board to cut the Logger lead to 7-4.  Puget Sound hit double-digits on the scoreboard in the seventh as three runs put them up, 10-4.  The Loggers got anotherl run in the eighth on an RBI double by Matt Cox (Salem, Ore./South Salem) that scored Rockey from third.

After two L&C runs in the bottom of the eighth, the Loggers got their final run in the top of the ninth as Kelsey scooted home following a Pioneer error as Puget Sound collected the 12-6 win.

Rockey finished the game two-of-three from the plate with two runs scored and three RBIs, also drawing a pair of walks.  Resnik was three-for-six on the day with three RBIs and two runs scored while Kramer picked up two RBIs on two-of-five from the plate.

The Loggers return home this weekend for a three-game series against Linfield.  First pitch with the Wildcats is set for Noon on Friday at Logger Field in Tacoma.