Westmont Baseball (18-16, 9-14 GSAC) swept Saturday's Golden State Athletic Conference doubleheader at Biola (11-13, 19-15) by taking the first game 16-3 and the second 5-1. The Warriors tallied 28 hits in the two games.
Torin Shaikh (4-3) was awarded the win in the first game after allowing just two runs, both unearned. Shaikh scattered nine hits over seven innings and struck out five without surrendering a walk.
The Warriors scored three runs in the first inning on an RBI single by Tommy Hocutt and a two-RBI double by William Barring. Brandon Gildea supplied an RBI single in the second and Brent Fukushima did the same in the third. After three innings of play, Westmont led 5-2.
In the seventh inning, Westmont sent 13 men to the plate and pushed eight runs across the plate. The Warriors had only five hits in the inning but benefited from three Eagle errors, two walks and a wild pitch. Greylin Derke picked up two RBIs in the inning with a bases-loaded single and Chris Stroh posted three RBIs on a bases-loaded double to right field.
For good measure, the Warriors added three more runs in the ninth inning, two driven in by Derke on a double to right.
Derke was two for three in the game with four RBIs and a run scored. Kevin Hammer was four for five with two RBIs and a run.
J.P. Cohn (2-2) claimed a complete game seven-inning win in the second game, allowing just one run on seven hits. Cohn struck out three and walked one.
Westmont scored one run in the first on an RBI single by Tommy Hocutt and added a second run in the second inning on an RBI single by Gildea.
The Warriors made it 5-0 with three runs in the third. After Hocutt led off the inning with a single and took second on a wild pitch, Barring walked to give the Warriors runners at first and second. Hammer then reached on a throwing error that allowed him to take second, Hocutt to score and Barring to advance to third.
Derke grounded out to second base, scoring Barring and moving Hammer over to third. An infield single by Greg Ruggles brought Hammer in for the third run.
Next up for the Warriors is a home series with Vanguard (14-19, 7-13) beginning on Wednesday, March 27. The two squads will meet at 2:00 p.m. to complete a game that was started on February 11 in Costa Mesa but suspended due to darkness after nine innings of play. Thirty minutes after the conclusion of the extra inning game, the regularly scheduled game will begin. On Thursday, the Warriors will host the Lions in a doubleheader beginning at noon.
