For the second straight night the Loyola Marymount Lions (17-9, 7-1 WCC) came into Joe Etzel Field and got a strong pitching performance, this time in the form of junior Josh Agnew, and production from up and down the lineup to the tune of tying their season high in hits with 14 to take the second game of the weekend set 10-3 over the Portland Pilots.
 
Agnew gave head coach Jason Gill 5.1 innings, throwing a total of 83 pitches against 23 Pilot batters. He surrendered three hits, three walks, one run while striking out one and picking up his third win on the season.
 
The Lions didn't waste any time getting on the board as they scored in each of the first three innings and four of the first five for the game. LMU's first two runs came courtesy of junior Trevin Esquerra who sent a 3-2 Cameron Richman offering over the wall in right center. The Lions next loaded the bases in the top of the second but only came away with one run as Nick Sogard was hit by a Richman pitch, his second of the game, bringing in Alex Lambeau. 
 
The top of the third inning saw senior Brandon Shearer lead off with a double then get pushed to third off the bat of freshman Tommy Delgado who singled to center field. Gill called on Lambeau to lay down the sacrifice and the sophomore delivered making the only play Portland's Nate Packard could make to first. 
 
LMU kept the pressure on the Pilots in the top of the fifth with Delgado sending a single through the right side, the second of his three hits on the night, and Lambeau blasting a Packard pitch down the right field line for his first triple of the season plating Delgado for the RBI. Freshman Ethan Patrick grounded out to the shortstop bringing in the speedy Lambeau for the Lions sixth run of the night.
 
The Lions extended their lead in the top of the eighth on some aggressive base running by Sogard. He singled off Portland's Morgan White then promptly stole both second and third to easily score off the RBI single by Cooper Uhl. The next two Lion runs were manufactured as Delgado sacrificed to center scoring Uhl and Shearer scored when Esquerra was caught on a rundown. 
 
LMU pushed through their last run of the game in the top half of the ninth when Kenny Oyama reached on a fielder's choice scoring Matthew Piotrowski who pinch ran for Patrick. 
 
Gill called on Giuseppe Benedetti in relief and the redshirt sophomore gave LMU 1.2 innings of no-hit baseball with four strikeouts and one walk. Gill next called on Alexander Burge and the freshman gave him 1.1 innings surrendering two runs, two hits and three walks while striking out two. Kyle Mora got the call to get the last two outs and the redshirt junior was up to the task by striking out the first batter he faced then got the last out on a groundout to third ending the game and securing the Lions second victory of the series.
 
The Lions look to complete the three-game sweep of the Pilots as the wrap up their weekend series on Sunday with first pitch slated for 12:00 p.m.