PORTLAND, Ore. – The bats exploded in the late game after a pitching duel to start the day as the Puget Sound baseball team split a doubleheader at Lewis & Clark on Saturday. After dropping game one 2-1, the Loggers (12-19, 7-10 NWC) cam to life for a 10-run sixth on the way to a 15-4 win in the late game.

Game 1 – L, 1-2

The Loggers' Matt Robinson and the Pios' Aaron Landecker traded blows on the mound but it was Landecker who came away with the win. He rode two early runs all the way through 8.1 innings of work to capture the win.

Eric Hyun and Andrew Traver had RBI hits in the first to put the Pios on top 2-0 early in the contest. That would be all the Pios would manage off Matt Robinson as he went on to toss seven shutout innings after the two-run first.

Robinson had six strikeouts in the game and allowed eight hits.

After two runs to start the game for the Pios, neither team could scratch out a run over the middle seven frames.

In the ninth, the Loggers finally got on the board and nearly tied the game. Lucas Stone doubled to lead off the inning and moved up to third when Christian Carter fouled out to right. A Kaulana Smith double brought in Stone for the Loggers lone run and kept a runner in scoring position with one out. Smith would move up to third but was left there when the game ended on a fly out.

Game 2 – W, 15-4

Lewis & Clark again put up two runs in the first while the Logger bats remained silent over the first two frames. In the third, they finally came to life.

Nick Funyak doubled to lead off and later scored on a JB Eary single. Stone's groundout brought home Eary later in the inning and Connor Savage plated Nick Alarcio with a two-out single for a 3-2 Logger lead.

Traver stepped up in the bottom half of the inning with a single that scored Hyun to tie the game back up at 3-3.

Both teams went down silently in the fourth and fifth but the Loggers sounded off a sonic boom in the sixth. The Loggers sent 14 batters to the plate to bring in 10 runs on nine hits and a pair of Pio errors.

Addison Melzer hit a two-run homer during the outburst while Christian Carter and Kaulana Smith each plated a run in each of their two respective turns at the plate. When the rally finally came to a close, the Loggers held a comfortable 13-3 lead.

Melzer drove in another run in the seventh and yet another in the eighth for a four-RBI day. The Pios got one back in the bottom of the sixth but couldn't scratch much more out against Steve Wagar. Wagar went eight innings on the mound and allowed just three earned runs while striking out five Pios. to earn the win. Zach LaBorde tossed a scoreless ninth.

The Loggers and Pios square off in the rubber match tomorrow at noon.