PORTLAND, Ore. – Davis Franklin scored the Puget Sound baseball team's first home run of the season in the second game of a non-conference doubleheader loss to Lewis and Clark College on Saturday.
Puget Sound 2, Lewis and Clark 5
Davis Franklin threw for five innings, striking out eight batters and only allowing three earned runs.
The game was scoreless in the first two innings, but that all changed in the bottom of the third. The Pioneers Luke Bass scored a three-run homer followed by Jakob Ghammachi who scored a home run shortly after.
Brennen Davis scored one more before the Loggers
Nathan Blocher scored in
Makana Murashige and
Preston Crockett in the top of the eighth with a double to left center. Murashige singled up the middle, while Crockett singled to right center.
Puget Sound 4, Lewis and Clark 5
Davis Franklin picked up his first multi-hit game of the season, going yard to start the game with a home run to right field scoring in
Drew Kamihara who singled to the right side. Kamihara went 2-for-3 from the plate and scored in
Aidan Sullivan who singles to the left side.
The Pioneers took a gradual lead, tying the game up in the bottom of the third with a double base hit from Bass. The Pioneers took the lead when Will Heron homered to left field scoring in Bass in the sixth inning and then a home run from Joaquin Sandoval in the seventh inning that stood alone as the winning run.
Brett Harvey pitched for six innings allowing only three earned runs on five hits and struck out six.
The Loggers meet the Pacific Boxers for a two-game non-conference series Sunday, February 25 at 11 a.m.