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Cal Baptist pitcher Andrew Bernstein threw seven strong innings in Thursday NCAA Division II West Regional game against Azusa Pacific but took a 3 1 loss.
Unfortunately for California Baptist, the Lancers offense was held in check for most of Thursday NCAA Division II West Regional opener and host APU launched a pair of home runs on the way to a 3 1 victory.
Despite a park with dimensions of 305 feet to right field and 310 to left, the game was essentially a pitching dual between APU Billy Oxford and the Lancers Andrew Bernstein.
Michael Staudinger home run in the second inning staked No. 2 seed APU (41 10) to a 1 0 advantage. Oxford didn wholesale nfl jerseys allow a hit until the fourth when Bryce Macy launched a solo shot to right to tie the game.
That was the first hit of the game for fifth seeded CBU, but the Lancers couldn add on and stranded runners over the final four innings.
APU Justin Gomez broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth with a two run homer and Oxford closed it out, finishing with a complete game, six hitter.
created opportunities late, we just didn get the swing, CBU Coach Gary Adcock said. started to put more pressure on in the eighth and ninth. We were just one hit away from a different ballgame. loss overshadowed a solid performance from Bernstein, who gave up five hits in seven innings and struck out seven.
During the regular season meeting between the Lancers and Cougars on April 14, CBU jumped on Oxford for six runs in the first inning on the way to a 10 3 victory. That wasn the case Thursday as Oxford struck out seven and held the 3 1 lead late in the game even as the Lancer lineup started to get runners on base. CBU also failed to take advantage of two Cougar errors.
just need to rely on our offense a little more, Macy said. were a little slow until we picked it up in the eighth and ninth innings. Lancers brought Authentic Jerseys NFL Store: China Wholesale Jerseys Cheap & Quality the tying run to the plate twice in the eighth, but a 4 6 3 double play killed any rally attempt. They also put runners on first and second in the ninth, but Oxford struck out Ryan Williams to end the game.
Oxford improved to 11 1 with the lone loss to CBU the only blemish.
The loss also snapped a four game winning streak by CBU at the Cougar Baseball Complex.
think we go into the next games with the same mentality and same focus, Bernstein said. same relaxed, loose energy because I think that what going to bring us out of the loser bracket and into the championship on Monday. Although we do not pre screen comments, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and cheap authentic jerseys to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.