WALLA WALLA, Wash.  Home runs from Jake Wishart and Adrian Vela paced Whitman in a 10-6 win Saturday in the opening game of a Northwest Conference doubleheader with visiting University of Puget Sound, and a pair of tying runs in the bottom of the ninth followed by a walk-off RBI single from Lucas Thrun in the 10th capped a rally from a five-run deficit in the Blues' 6-5 victory in the nightcap at Borleske Stadium.

The twinbill sweep lifts the Blues' league mark to 8-9 while moving their overall record to 14-15. The Loggers drop to 6-10 and 10-15, respectively.

Wishart lofted a solo shot high over the left-field fence in the bottom of the second inning in Game 1, lighting up the scoreboard for the first run of the game. The dinger was his first as a collegian.

Puget Sound scratched out a run against Whitman starter Nick Johnson in the top of the third, only to watch the Blues leap back in front in the bottom of the frame.

Brett Williams led off the frame with a single to center, then moved up a base when Loggers starting pitcher Joshua Zavisubin hit Thrun.

A single into center from Joseph Zimmerman loaded the bags and set the table for Vela who bashed his sixth of the season, also clearing the fence in left, for the grand slam.

The same four batters figured in four more runs in the fourth as Williams and Thrun singled, Zimmerman tripled, and Vela doubled. A foul pop by John Lyon near first base turned into the fourth run of the inning when his throw home to ensure Vela stayed at third was badly in the dirt, skipping away allowing Vela to score anyway.

Nick Johnson had settled in on the mound by this time and only allowed a run in the sixth before getting into a bigger jam in the seventh. The Loggers picked up three runs in the inning, all charged to Lyon who had given way to reliever Steven Ainsworth, but the hefty run support from his teammates allowed Johnson to pick up the victory, elevating his season mark to 3-1.

Vela finished the opener with five RBI and two runs on two hits, but his stellar day wasn't over yet.

Puget Sound starting pitcher Merle Rowan-Kennedy did a good job of keeping the hot bats of the Blues silent in the opening innings of Game 2. The only trouble he had to work out of came in the fourth when the Blues loaded the bases with two outs. Rowan-Kennedy was able to end the threat by inducing an easy ground-out to second base for the final out of the frame.

Meanwhile, the Logger bats were making noise against Whitman starter Eric Ma, pounding out 10 hits in six innings. They scored four runs off Ma in those six frames, but only one was an earned run. Puget Sound added another unearned run in the top of the seventh, prompting a pitching change to reliever Patrick Stanton.

Rowan-Kennedy took a 5-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh but finally reached his limits. He registered an out against the first batter but hit the next two, ending his outing.

Reliever Eric Crispell was greeted with an RBI-single by Thrun, and after picking up out number two surrendered a two-RBI single to Vela.

A Wishart single put he and Vela at the corners but the Blues would have to settle for just three runs, but that crooked number on the scoreboard made things a whole lot tighter for the Loggers.

Crispell pitched a 1-2-3 eighth to put his Loggers three outs away from a split on the day, but a pitching change altered those hopes.

Michael Warn took over to start the ninth and picked up the first out with an easy grounder to second. Then the wheels wobbled.

Thrun dropped a single into short center field and moved to second after Warn hit Zimmer. Vela then added a single to jam the bags full.

Warn worked for a strikeout of the next batter, but that brought up Nick Johnson in a pinch-hitter role.

The winning pitcher from the opener delivered in the nightcap from the batter's box with a single up the middle that brought home Thrun and Zimmer to tie the score at 5-5.

Though Warn finally picked up the third out the Blues were on fire after being held down early by Rowan-Kennedy.

Stanton had given way to Garret Atkinson to start the eighth, and Atkinson gave way to Jimmy Smiley at the start of the 10th. Smiley allowed a short single into right but otherwise through a clean inning to provide the Blues with a chance to complete the epic come-back.

And that they did as Anthony Lim's lead-off walk against Matthew Hicks, the fourth Loggers pitcher, continued the momentum built from the ninth.

David Johnson's sacrifice bunt moved Lim 90 feet, and then a wild pitch by Hicks allowed Lim to stroll into third, putting the winning run only 90 feet away.

A fly-out to center for the second out wasn't deep enough to allow Lim, chomping at the bit like a stallion in the gate at the Preakness, to traverse those final 90 feet. But that distance was easily covered when the next batter, Thrun, lined a single past a diving first baseman for a walk-off single, igniting a race to Thrun by his teammates leaping out of the dugout.

Smiley (3-2) gained the win on the mound after pitching the scoreless ninth, but he, Stanton and Atkinson combined to allow just one hit and one walk in their 3 2/3 innings of relief work.

Vela's two RBI in the dramatic victory gave him seven for the day, coming from five hits including his four-bagger in the opener.

The Blues and Loggers are back at Borleske Sunday for the final game of the three-game set, with first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m.