LINFIELD TAKES TWO FROM UPS

McMINNVILLE, Ore. - Taking on the preseason favorite to win the Northwest Conference title, the Puget Sound Loggers dropped a pair of NWC baseball games to the Linfield Wildcats, 4-2 and 8-1, on Friday afternoon at Roy Helser Field in McMinnville, Ore.

In the first game, Linfield scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take the early lead. The Loggers added a run in the third innings on a single by Dakota Resnik (Bellevue, Wash./Newport) that scored Sean Bayha (Arlington, Wash.). After field answered in the bottom of the inning, the Loggers narrowed the gap again in the top of the sixth on a solo home run to left field by senior Michael Olsen (Niwot, Colo.) but Linfield again answered back with a single run in the bottom of the eighth.

Tom Glassman (Tacoma, Wash./Biola) took the loss for Puget Sound, allowing four runs on nine hits with five walks and two strikeouts in seven and one-third innings pitched.

In the second game, it was all Wildcats as they cruised to a 8-1 win over the Loggers. Puget Sound got their lone run in the top of the ninth after Travis Hernandez (Burlington, Wash./Burlington-Edison) singled to score Devin Black (Evergreen, Colo.). Sophomore Dusty Kauflin (Boulder, Colo.) took the loss, allowing six runs on 12 hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings pitched.

The Loggers and Wildcats will go at it again on Saturday, playing two seven-inning games beginning at Noon in McMinnville, Ore.

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