LCSC bounces back with 17-6 win

 5-2-07

The Lewis-Clark State College baseball team got back into the swing of things Wednesday night, collecting 15 hits en route to a 17-6 triumph over the University of British Columbia at Harris Field. 

LCSC, 45-4 overall, picked up its first win against UBC this season in three game by rediscovering its offensive stroke. 

Averaging 10 runs a game this season, the Warriors had seen that cut in half during its last five games, including losing by a rare shutout at home on Tuesday night. 

LCSC, however, used eight extra-base hits, including three home runs, to score 15 runs in the sixth through eighth innings to roll to the victory. 

UBC, 19-16, was looking to make it three straight over the Warriors this season and had a 5-2 lead entering the bottom of the sixth. LCSC, however, scored four times in the sixth, four more in the seventh, and then seven in the eighth.

British Columbia currently trails Albertson by two games in the Region I standings and plays host to the Caldwell school this weekend in a three-game series that will decide who is the host team for the Region I tournament. With that, UBC is either only using its top pitchers for a couple of innings or saving them for the weekend. That caught up with the T-Birds Wednesday night when the final three pitchers were roughed up. 

Lewiston junior first baseman Kyle Greene (shown above) did most of the damage for the Warriors. He went 2-for-5 with a double and a home run, and drove in five runs. Paul Martin added three RBI, while Jessie Mier and Zach Evangelho had two each. 

Mier had a solo home run in the second while Brent Wyatt added an RBI triple in the third to tie the game at 2-2. 

After UBC took the lead, LCSC used an RBI singles by Beau Mills, Martin, and Mier to tie the game in the sixth. LCSC then took the lead when Martin scored on a passed ball. 

In the seventh, Jesse Roehl hit a solo home run to left field and an error brought in the second run. Greene capped the inning with a two-run double. 

The Warriors used six hits and an error to score seven runs in the eighth inning. Martin's RBI single started the scoring, while Greene hit a three-run homer to center field. Evangelho added a two-run double, while an error allowed the final run to score. 

Brad Schwarzenbach, the third LCSC pitcher, picked up the win to improve to 5-0 on the season. He went 3 1/3 innigns and allowed four hits, two walks and a run. He also struck out four. Starter Mike Miller allowed four hits, four runs and three walks in his four innings, while Matt Duryea was touched for three hits and a run in his 1 2/3 innings of work. 

The two teams wrap up the three-game series with a noon contest on Thursday.