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Box Score 2 TACOMA, Washington – Owen Shellhammer finished with a career-high nine strikeouts, and three Loggers hit home runs as the Puget Sound baseball team won both ends of a doubleheader at Lewis & Clark Friday afternoon.
Puget Sound 14, Lewis & Clark 3 (7 inn.)
Shellhammer pitched all seven innings and struck out nine batters to earn his fourth win of the season. He allowed seven hits and walked only one. After allowing just two earned runs, Shellhammer's ERA improved to 3.10, which ranks fourth in the Northwest Conference.
The Puget Sound offense set the tone in the first inning, when five batters reached base and three runs scored – all with two outs.
Jonas Kim got the two-out rally started with a double to left field, and he scored on a single by Jesse Awa.
Mitchell Nabeta plated Awa with a double, and then Jacob Ota followed with an RBI single but the middle. Davis Miller drew a walk and Makana Murashige hit a single, but the Loggers left the bases loaded after scoring three runs.
The Loggers pushed three more runs across the plate in the second inning. Kyle Strash and Dylan Joyce hit consecutive doubles to account for a run, and then Awa belted a home run down the right-field line. It was Awa's third homer of the season.
Kim, Nabeta, Miller, and Murashige each had a three-hit game.
Puget Sound 9, Lewis & Clark 3 (7 inn.)
Joyce hit his seventh home run of the season, and Clayton Waltz hit his third round-tripper during the Loggers' second win Friday.
Just like the first game, the Loggers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Strash led off with a walk, and Joyce drove him home with a double down the left-field line. Awa followed with an RBI double of his own, and then he came in to score on a single by Ota.
Joyce launched a three-run bomb in the second inning, and Waltz hit a leadoff home run in the sixth.
Andrew Matsueda earned his second win of the season after allowing three earned runs in 5.1 innings. Joyce locked in his third save of the season.
The Loggers and Pioneers play two more times Saturday, April 24, starting at 12 p.m.
