PORTLAND, Ore. – An early lead was erased in the sixth as the Puget Sound baseball team fell 11-6 to Concordia on Sunday. The teams traded high-scoring frames as the Loggers (5-5) opened the game with a four-run first but the Cavaliers (7-7) responded with a seven runs in the sixth.

Two Concordia errors immediately put the Loggers in business with the bases loaded and no out. Nate Backes cashed in the Loggers first run and later scored the third run on a balk. Nick Funyak hit a sacrifice fly in the opening inning and Jeff Walton capped the scoring with run-scoring double.

Walton finished the game with three hits to lead the Loggers.

After the Cavaliers got two back in the bottom first, Connor Savage led off the second with a triple and scored on Kaulana Smith's groundout. Smith's double in the fourth pushed across another run and put the Loggers comfortably out in front with a 6-2 advantage.

The Cavaliers bats exploded in the sixth to erase the deficit and gain the lead. Three double did the trick as they put up seven runs in the inning. Elliot North doubled in three runs, Blake Drake cashed in two more on a double to gain the lead and Jared Young padded it with another two-run double.

Three pitchers kept the Loggers off the board over the final three innings to preserve the win but Austin Hadley's five inning effort out of the bullpen earned him the win.

Jarrod Beiser was solid for five innings as the Loggers took a lead but the Cavaliers big sixth inning turned the tables on his outing. He had allowed just two runs and three hits through the first five innings.

Next up is the Loggers home- and conference-opener. Whitman visits for a three-game series starting with an 11 a.m. doubleheader on Saturday.