Stockton, CALIF. - LMU scored nine runs and collected ten hits but could not overcome a rough start and a costly sixth inning, dropping a 15-9 decision to Pacific on Saturday afternoon at Klein Family Field to fall to 12-36 on the season.
LMU struck first in the top of the first when
Jaxson Wall doubled and came home on a
Zion Williams single up the middle, giving the Lions a brief 1-0 lead. Pacific answered emphatically in the bottom half, sending nine batters to the plate and plating five runs off starter
Adam Behrens. Jake Tandy and Grant MacArthur each drove in a run with singles, Braeden Schnabel added a run-scoring double, and JT Shank and Rylan Evans followed with back-to-back sacrifice flies to put Pacific ahead 5-1 after one inning.
The Lions clawed back in the second, as
JD Dunn drove in a run with a ground-rule double to right-center, trimming the score to 5-2. Pacific responded in the bottom half with two more runs, capped by a two-run home run from Brendan O'Sullivan off Behrens, who was lifted after just one inning having allowed seven runs on seven hits.
LMU continued to chip away in the third. Wall tripled to lead off the inning and scored on a Williams double, and
Andrew Mhoon followed with an RBI groundout to make it 7-4. Pacific answered again with a run in the bottom half on an unearned run that scored on a Moreno error, extending the lead back to 8-4.
The Lions went scoreless in the fourth and fifth but came alive in the sixth, loading the bases with two outs against Ethan Shaver on back-to-back hit-by-pitches and a Moreno single. Ghiorso drew a bases-loaded walk to score a run, Wall was hit by a pitch to force in another, and Williams added an RBI walk to cap a three-run inning that made it 11-7. Pacific countered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth off
Alec Johnson and
Jacob Fried, pushing the margin back to 14-7.
LMU added two more in the eighth on a Rylan Evans RBI double and a Brendan O'Sullivan sacrifice fly, but the Pacific bullpen shut the door from there, and the Lions went down in order in the ninth to finalize the 15-9 defeat.
Williams led LMU offensively with a 3-for-4 afternoon including a double and four RBI. Wall contributed a 2-for-4 effort with a triple, a double, and two RBI. Dunn also had a strong day, going 2-for-3 with an RBI double.Â
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