The Loyola Marymount Lions (19-11, 8-3 WCC) dropped a tough West Coast Conference game 3-2 against San Francisco. The loss, only their third in conference play, was fought hard all the way till the last out but ultimately LMU couldn't produce any more runs and suffered the setback. 
 
Josh Agnew took the hill for head coach Jason Gill and he responded with 6.0 innings of six hit baseball, striking out six and surrendered three runs.  
 
Agnew gave up runs in the first two innings to the Dons. The first came off the bat of USF's Riley Helland who's single to left field scored Tyler Villaroman. The second run came in the form of Brandon Greim's home run to right field. 
 
LMU cut the Dons lead in half in the top half of the fourth with clutch two out hitting and base running. Senior Brandon Shearer drew a six-pitch walk and following that Trevin Esquerra hit a soft grounder to USF's Scott Parker and beat the throw for the infield hit. With two men on freshman Tommy Delgado sent a shot through the right side, plating Shearer for the RBI single. 
 
The Dons got the run back in the bottom of the fourth when Robert Emery scored off the single from Greim giving USF their third and final run on the day.   
 
The Lions got their second run, again with two outs, in the visiting half of the fifth when the speedy Dylan Hirsch beat the throw at first for the infield hit. Nick Sogard singled through right center sending Hirsch to third and with runners on the corners Cooper Uhl hit the first pitch from Parker past the second basemen driving in Hirsch for the RBI single. 
 
Redshirt junior Kyle Mora was superb in relief of Agnew on the mound not allowing a hit to the Dons while striking out three on 23 total pitches in his 2.0 innings worth of work.
 
Hirsch continued his hot-hitting going 2-for-4 with a double and a single giving him five hits for the series and an on base percentage of .750.
 
The Lions put men on base in the seventh and ninth innings but couldn't produce the game-tying score and ultimately fell by one run.
 
The Lions and Dons wrap up their three-game weekend series tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 pm with the rubber match as LMU is looking to bounce back and claim the series against USF.