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6
Winner Whitman WHITMAN 5-15
5
Occidental OCCIDENT 17-6
Winner
Whitman WHITMAN
5-15
6
Final
5
Occidental OCCIDENT
17-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Whitman WHITMAN 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 6 12 0
Occidental OCCIDENT 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 5 8 1

W: Moody, Hawthorne (3-1) L: Griffen Rogers (2-1)

2
Whitman WHITMAN 6-16
7
Winner Occidental OCCIDENT 18-7
Whitman WHITMAN
6-16
2
Final
7
Occidental OCCIDENT
18-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Whitman WHITMAN 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 1
Occidental OCCIDENT 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 0 X 7 11 0

W: Riley Holcomb (2-0) L: Peterson, Ryder (0-1)

Garen Geoghegan
Whitman Communications

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Splits Twinbill At Occidental

LOS ANGELES - Whitman College wrapped up its three-game set at Occidental with a doubleheader split on Saturday, taking the opener 6–5 before falling 7–2 in the finale.

Game 1: Whitman 6 Occidental 5
Behind a balanced lineup and a clutch bullpen effort, Whitman edged Occidental 6–5 in the opener and move to 6–15 on the season. The Blues finished with 12 hits and did not commit an error, using a late surge to erase a one-run deficit in the eighth.​

Sam Mieszkowski-Lapping jump-started the offense with a solo home run to center in the fifth that tied the game at 2–2, one of two extra-base hits for Whitman in the contest. Christopher Nobrega and Luke Malzewski each added doubles, while designated hitter Nate Petz turned in a three-hit day and drove in a run to pace the attack. Landon Runyan chipped in two hits and a run scored, and nine of Whitman's starters recorded at least one hit.​

On the mound, Russell Petersen worked six innings and allowed three runs while striking out five before handing the ball to the bullpen with the game tied. After Aidan Okano fired a scoreless seventh, Hawthorne Moody earned the win by recording the final six outs, striking out two while navigating a pair of late Occidental runs. The Tigers pulled within one in both the eighth and ninth, but Whitman's defense held, turning in an error-free performance and stranding the tying run on base in the final frame.​

Game 2: Occidental 7 Whitman 2
Occidental answered in the second game, using a six-run outburst across the sixth and seventh innings to pull away for a 7–2 win and the doubleheader split. Whitman again put runners on throughout the afternoon with eight hits, but the Blues left 10 on base and were limited to single runs in the fourth and fifth.​

Jordan Montemayor starred at the plate, going 3-3 with a double, a triple, a sacrifice bunt, and two runs scored to lead the Blues' offense. Noah Braunel added two hits and an RBI single in the fourth, while Petz brought home Montemayor with a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Luke Malzewski contributed two hits, including a bunt single, and stole a base as Whitman again generated traffic against the Occidental staff.​

Starter Garen Geoghegan turned in five and one-third solid innings, allowing just one run on four hits while striking out one before the Tigers finally broke through against the bullpen. 

Occidental strung together six hits and capitalized on a Whitman error in a five-run sixth, then added an insurance run in the seventh to create separation. Cole Kreber closed the game with one and two-thirds innings of one-hit, scoreless work, but the Blues were unable to mount a late comeback in the final two frames.

Whitman closes out its California with a single game at La Verne on Sunday, March 29 at 11:00 a.m.
 
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