POMONA, Calif. - The Whitman College baseball team kicked off the season on Friday but were unable to scratch a run across home plate in a 6-0 series-opening loss to Pomona-Pitzer at Alumni Field.
Jack Hilton (3-0) had his way with the Whitman order in picking up the win. He allowed only four hits over six scoreless innings with five strikeouts. Julien Hernandez (0-1) battled through five complete innings, allowing four earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts, and Billy Wall tossed an impressive two scoreless innings of relief
Garrett Runyan led the Blues (0-1) with two hits, and Beck Maguire and Brandon Ting each added a hit.Â
JC Ng and Nate Jakobs led the Sagehens both with two hits and one run, and Matthew Nishimura added two hits and two runs.
The game was a pitchers duel through three innings with Pomona-Pitzer scratching the lone run across on a sac fly in the second. The Sagehens finally got to Hernandez on his second trip through the order. After a lead off walk, Kade Morihara and Nishimura produced run-scoring hits to push the lead to 3-0.
Pomona plated two more runs in the fifth and and another in the eighth which proved to be more than enough.
The series concludes on Saturday with a doubleheader beginning at 11:00 a.m.
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