WALLA WALLA, Wash. – The home season finished up Sunday afternoon as Whitman College hosted Linfield College in a game three slugfest. The Whits had the lead a couple times during the contest, but was unable to stifle the Wildcats' bats, falling 15-11 in Northwest Conference action.
 
Before the game started, the team honored their three seniors, Paul Heywood, Jackson DeStefano and Robert Maislin in their final home game at Whitman. Heywood collected a hit and RBI, while DeStefano drove in two runs in a 1-for-4 performance. Joseph Zimmer caught fire at the plate after a sub-par day yesterday; the sophomore went 4-for-six with four RBIs, two runs and a home run. Adrian Vela and Anthony Lim both were 2-for-4 at the plate and scored a combined four runs.
 
In the top of the first inning Linfield scored two runs on an Eric Lawson home run to left field. After the Whits held the Wildcats scoreless in the second, Linfield added four runs in the third. In the bottom half of the third, Whitman's bats came alive as the Whits erupted for six runs.
 
Lim walked to start the inning and Joseph Zimmer crushed a line drive home run over the left field wall. Even after the Wildcats made a change on the mound, Whitman's comeback continued. Heywood sent a double to down the left field line that scored Vela and Lucas Thrun followed with a single that scored Nick Johnson.
 
DeStefano tied the game in his second at-bat with a single to left that scored Heywood and Thrun. Milo Mincin, who relieved Garrett Atkinson in the third inning, threw a brilliant fourth inning, retiring the Cats with just seven pitches.
 
Opportunity knocked again for the Whits in the bottom of the fourth, with Lim and Zimmer on and no outs. However, no outs quickly became two and it looked as if a chance at the lead may slip away. Whitman, however, was not going to allow it; after Heywood walked to load the bases, Thrun delivered, sending a line drive base hit into left field, scoring Lim and Zimmer and lifting the Whits to their first lead of the game 8-6.
 
In the top of the sixth, the game swung in favor of Linfield who regained the lead, 12-8 with six runs. Heywood nearly brought the Whits back again in the bottom half of the inning, with one out and two runners on base he drove a fastball to deep left center field that was caught against the fence for the second out. 
 
Although, the Whits were not able to bring in any runs in the sixth, the outcome was different in the seventh. Whitman entered the inning trailing by four, but a three-run inning brought the game back to within a run. Lim doubled, scoring DeStefano and Zimmer followed suit with a double of his own, driving in two RBIs and cutting the Wildcat lead to 12-11.
 
John Lyon took over on the mound midway through the sixth and held Linfield in check until the eighth when the Wildcats tacked two more runs on to their lead. After surrendering another run in the ninth, Whitman faced an uphill battle in the bottom half of the ninth. With two on and two out, the Whits were unable to bring a run in, falling 15-11.