WALLA WALLA, WA – Lewis-Clark State Baseball trailed 4-1 after three innings of play on Wednesday but quickly bounced back for a 11-4 victory over NCAA Division III Whitman. The Warriors set a single-game record with nine different pitchers and scored 10 unanswered runs in the contest.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Ike George led off the game with a single to right and Charlie Updegrave drove in the game’s first run with a double. Jackson Cloud tossed a scoreless first inning.
Whitman tallied two runs in both the second and third innings to take a 4-1 lead over the Warriors. LC State responded with 10 unanswered runs to put the game away.
Jakob Marquez and Noah Weintraub got the offense going with back-to-back singles in the top of the fifth and both moved into scoring position on a groundout by Dominic Signorelli. Brandon Cabrera brought the Warriors within one with an RBI base hit.
Jake Green allowed no runs in the home half of the fifth and LC State blew the game open in the top of the sixth. Abe Affholter walked to lead off the frame and George doubled to put two on. Jack Sheward stepped to the plate next and drilled a three-run home run to left to put LC State up 6-4.
Updegrave kept the inning going with a double to left before Marquez and Weintraub both walked. A sacrifice fly by Signorelli plated a run before a base hit by Cabrera pushed the score to 8-4. After a Whitman pitching change, a wild pitch brought in a run and George singled to bring in two more for an 11-4 advantage.
Tucker Grote struck out two in the bottom of the sixth and Zak Sullivan fanned three in the eighth. Jace Taylor set the LC State record as the ninth pitcher in the game in the ninth inning and struck out the side.
STAT RECAP
George went 4-for-4 while Sheward and Cabrera each drove in three runs.
LC State’s nine pitchers combined to strike out 13 batters with Joey Estrada, Sullivan and Taylor each striking out three. Cloud, Landon Webb, Levi Anderson, Estrada, Green, Grote, Zachary Ediger, Sullivan and Taylor all had time on the mound.
UP NEXT
The Warriors host Warner Pacific (Ore.) in a four-game Cascade Conference series Apr. 5-6 at Harris Field.
