4/13/2008 – GEORGE FOX 2-9, WHITMAN 0-1: Wyckoff Homers Twice as Bruins Sweep Missionaries
Box Score Game 1
Box Score Game 2
WALLA WALLA, Wash. - Matt Wyckoff homered in each game and the George Fox University Bruins got stellar performances from their pitching staff as they completed a four-game sweep of the Whitman College Missionaries with 2-0 and 9-1 wins in a Northwest Conference baseball doubleheader Sunday afternoon here at Borleske Stadium.
Mark Putney (4-1) out-dueled Pete Stadmeyer (0-8) in the opener as the two battled through five scoreless innings before the Bruins broke through. Putney allowed only four hits in going the seven-inning distance, fanning eight and walking none. Stadmeyer was almost as tough, scattering six hits over six innings while striking out nine and walking one.
The Bruins finally scored in the 6th as Wyckoff slugged a two-out home run to right-center, his third of the season, to break the deadlock. They added an insurance run in the 7th off reliever Trygve Madsen as Kyle Seymour was hit by a pitch, was balked to second, sacrificed to third by Taylor Hunter, and scored on Pat Bailey’s sacrifice fly to center.
In the nightcap, Shane Dalgleish (6-0) picked up his sixth win with five strong innings for the Bruins, allowing only two hits and one run with a pair of walks. The only run he permitted came in the 4th on an Erik Korsmo triple and a sacrifice fly by Austin Shackelford. Brady Rhodes and Brian Davis finished up as each worked a one-hit inning with one strikeout apiece. Sean Day (0-7) took the loss for the Missionaries as he was roughed up for seven hits and six runs through two-plus innings.
The Bruins put up five in the 2nd to take control. Jason Brown scored the first run on Nate Brown’s suicide squeeze bunt, and Todd Siler scored from second on the play when Day threw the ball away at first. Kyle Kuenzi tripled in Brown, Hunter’s sacrifice fly scored Kuenzi, and Wyckoff drilled his second home run of the day and fourth of the season to left.
Wyckoff picked up another RBI in the Bruins’ two-run 3rd when he walked with the bases loaded to force in Jason Brown. The Bruins added single runs in the 5th as Nate Brown scored on a wild pitch, and in the 6th when an error in right allowed Joey Bianco to score.
George Fox (23-9, NWC 19-5) moved within one game of first-place Linfield College when the Wildcats split at home with Lewis & Clark College. The Bruins host the University of Puget Sound next weekend with twinbills Saturday and Sunday at 12:00 noon. Whitman (2-30, NWC 0-24) visits Pacific Lutheran University next weekend for four, same time and dates.