BASEBALL PICKS UP SWEEP WITH TWO WINS AGAINST WHITMAN
Written by Jermaine Williams, UPS Athletics
TACOMA, Wash. - The Puget Sound Logger Baseball team earned a season sweep of Whitman following a pair of wins, 8-2 and 10-3, in a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at Logger Field.
In game one, it looked to be pitching duel as Whitman ace Pete Stadmeyer and Logger starter Tim Fogarty (Pacifica, Calif./Sacred Heart Cathedral) battled through two innings. The Loggers took an early lead in the first inning but Whitman picked up two runs in the third inning to take a 2-1 lead.
The Loggers would answer big in the bottom of the third capped off by Michael Olsen's (Niwot, Colo./Niwot) third home run of the weekend. The Olsen homerun plated two other Loggers, giving Puget Sound a 4-2 lead that they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game.
In the sixth inning, the Loggers added four more runs courtesy of three singles and a two-out double by Spencer Crace (Wilsonville, Ore./Wilsonville). Shaun Kiriu (Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou) sent a screamer into center field, scoring both Doug Cox (Kailau, Hawaii/Kalaheo) and Travis Hernandez (Burlington, Wash./Burlington-Edison) to help the Loggers picked up the win, 8-2.
Jarvis Nohara (Honolulu, Hawaii/Iolani) picked up the win for the Loggers in four and a third innings of work, giving up two hits and striking out a pair.
In the second game, the Loggers put up 10 runs in the series-finale with Whitman including three different three-run innings. Kiriu led off the first inning with a double down the right field line and Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash./Newport) and Olsen would both follow with singles of their own with Olsen's scoring Resnik. Taking advantage of a few Whitman errors, the Loggers took an early 3-0 lead.
Joe Newland (Tulalip, Wash./Marysville-Pilchuck) slugged his third home run of the weekend in the second inning, pushing the Logger lead to 6-0. In the fourth, the Loggers again scored three runs, assisted in large part by David Thirlby's (Seattle, Wash./O'Dea) two-run double to the center field fence. The Loggers would go on to win by a final tally of 10-3.
Logger freshman Cameron Duvall (Lakewood, Wash./Lakes) picked up his first win of the young season, giving up two hits and striking out seven.
The Loggers will next be in action on Friday when they play Claremont-M-S for the first of four games in California.
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