Six home runs land Warrior win over Concordia

4-12-08

PORTLAND, Oregon –The Lewis-Clark State College baseball team clubbed a season high six home runs and collected 20 hits as they rolled to an 18-10 win over Concordia University on Saturday.  

LCSC seniors, Kyle Greene and Ikaika Lester did the most damage to Concordia pitching as they combined for a 7-for-11 day with three home runs—two from Greene and one from Lester. 

Paul Martin, Zach Adam, and Justin Speer also had a home run apiece. 

For the Warriors it was the fourth time this season that they have knocked 20 or more hits in a game, and for Kyle Greene it was the third time he has hit multiple home runs. 

Greene has hit .528 going 21-for-29 with six home runs and 24 RBI in the last nine games.  

After winning the first two games of the three-game series, the Warriors now hold a 34-4 record going into Sunday’s 1 p.m. game. Concordia, now 11-16, will look to avoid being swept by LCSC for the second time this season. 

In contrast to the Warriors 4-0 win over Concordia on Friday, Saturday’s game saw a run scored in every inning, with the Warriors scoring a run in every inning but the second. However, LCSC needed heavy offensive support as its pitching staff gave up its second highest run total of the season.  

Warrior starter, Michael Guerrero, who had pitched three straight complete games coming into Saturday, went 4.2 innings giving up five earned runs and six hits. Justin Mace, coming on in relief, picked up the win as he threw 4.1 innings with two earned runs and seven hits. Both teams committed three errors. 

Martin blasted the Warriors to a 2-0 lead the first inning, but a Warrior error and two Concordia hits brought a 2-2 tie by the end of the second.  

Between the third and sixth innings Concordia almost matched LCSC run for run.  

Greene hit a solo homer in the third, and Concordia answered with a run scoring double. The Warriors then strung four hits together to score two runs in the fourth, and Concordia’s Josh Mandin answered with a two run home run. 

In the fifth, Lester led off with a long ball, and after a Josh Ashenbrenner walk, Zach Adam launched his first home run of the year. However, Concordia bounced back with two runs of their own to make the game 8-7 by the bottom of the fifth. 

In the sixth, both teams used singles to bring another run to the plate, but in the seventh a home run from Justin Speer followed by a two-run blast from Kyle Greene finally started put some distance between the two teams. 

The Warriors then used one double and six singles to bring three insurance runs home in the eighth and three in the ninth.