Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 TACOMA, Washington – Three Loggers homered – including Dylan Joyce's 10^th blast of the season – as the Puget Sound baseball team split a Northwest Conference doubleheader against Lewis & Clark on Logger Field Tuesday afternoon. The three-game series was originally scheduled for April 2-3. A date for the third game is TBD.
 
Puget Sound 4, Lewis & Clark 11
Clayton Waltz homered and Makana Murashige drove in three runs, but the Loggers lost the first game, 11-4.
 
Murashige gave Puget Sound a 2-0 lead in the first inning when he ripped a double that scored Jacob Ota and Shane Himeda. The Loggers held that two-run lead through the fourth inning, but Lewis & Clark tied the score in the fifth.
 
Murashige drove in the Loggers' third run in the bottom of the fifth inning, but the Pioneers quickly evened the score in the top of the sixth.
 
Waltz crushed his second home run of the season to left-center in the sixth inning, but his solo home run was the final run scored for the Loggers. The Pioneers rallied for five runs in the seventh inning.  
 
 
Puget Sound 15, Lewis & Clark 1
Shane Himeda set the tone with a solo home run in the first inning, and Puget Sound totaled a season-high 17 hits in its 15-1 win over the Pioneers.
 
The Loggers erupted for seven runs in the fifth inning – including Dylan Joyce's 10^th home run of the season – as Puget Sound ran away with a 15-1 win in the second game against Lewis & Clark.
 
The big rally started with a leadoff walk by Jonas Kim, and a single by Mitch Nebata put runners on the corners. Kim then came in to score as William Gross reached base with a bunt single.
 
Three batters later, Joyce blasted an opposite-field home run to give Puget Sound a 9-1 lead.
 
Kim hit a two-run double to finish the fifth-inning rally, and Kyle Strash added a two-run double the very next inning.
 
Jackson Dinkel earned his first win of the season by pitching four shutout innings out of the bullpen, striking out four.
 
Joyce, Himeda, and William Gross each finished the game with three hits.
 
The Loggers are on the road this weekend at Whitworth, April 9-10.