CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Whitman College baseball team had hoped to close its Southern California road trip on a winning note, but instead fell at Pomona-Pitzer 16-4 on Sunday at Alumni Field.
Beck Maguire posted three hits and AJ Romero added two hits and a run for the Blues who suffered their largest margin of defeat this season. Teague Conder (1 H, 1 R, 3 RBI) crushed a three-run homer in the sixth inning for Whitman's largest offensive spark.
Whitman (9-4) threw six pitchers on the mound with starter Jack Hostetler suffering the loss. He allowed six runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts over four complete innings. Jake Albro earned the win for the Sagehens (8-7), working five and one-third innings and allowing three earned runs on six hits with five strikeouts.
Pomona jumped on the board quickly with a two-run homer in the first inning from Nate Jakobs. Hostetler did post three strikeouts in the inning and settled down until the fourth inning. Ben Parker's sacrifice fly in the third gave Whitman its first run, but a bases-clearing double from David Bedrosian (3 H, 1 R, 6 RBI) one inning later put Pomona up 5-1.
The middle innings proved to be unkind to the Whitman pitching staff as it scattered 14 runs over the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. JC Ng (2 H, 2 R, 3 RBI) delivered a two-run homer and Bedrosian knocked in another pair of runs as part of Pomona's five-run sixth inning.
The Blues start Northwest Conference play next weekend when they open up a three-game series at Lewis & Clark on Saturday, March 11.
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