The Loyola Marymount Lions (14-8, 5-1 WCC) had a tough time figuring out Pacific's Ryan Shreve but fought hard to the very end and fell to their West Coast Conference foes 5-2. The setback was only the third at Page this season and snapped LMU's eight game win streak.
 
The Lions used four pitchers throughout the game with head coach Jason Gill giving the Sunday start to freshman Alexander Burge and he produced 3.0 innings of work conceding one run, three hits and one walk on 47 pitches. He was relieved by Holden Christian who threw 2.0 innings, allowing three hits, two runs, one walk and one strikeout. The trio of Kyle Mora, Josh Robins and Nate Madole pitched the final four innings giving up just two runs and two hits.
 
LMU managed two hits off Shreve in the form of singles in the bottom half of the eighth inning from the bats of Alex Lambeau and freshman Ethan Patrick who's hit was the first of his career as a Lion. 
 
Pacific scored in three of the nine innings but that proved to be the difference in the game. The first run was delivered off the bat of Kevin Sandri who singled in James Arakawa in the top half of the third. The Tigers got two more runs in the top of the fifth off the squeeze bunt from Keaton Glover scoring Arakawa followed by Sandri's RBI single bringing home Wyatt Hoffman. The final two runs for Pacific were provided by Arakawa with a single to right field scoring two and pushing their final run total for the game to five.
 
The Lions first of their two runs were scored in the bottom half of the sixth. Freshman Ben Grunberg reached on an error by Sandri and eventually scored when Nick Sogard grounded out to the second basemen. The other LMU run was brought in off the bat of Grunberg when he delivered a sacrifice fly to center field plating Alex Lambeau who began the inning off with a single. Those two runs proved to be the final tally for the Lions as they went down in order in the bottom of the ninth putting an end to their win streak and second straight sweep against WCC competition.
 
The Lions return to Page Stadium for a Monday matinee when they welcome the Washington State Cougars from the Pac-12 with first pitch slated for 2:00 p.m.