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LOS ANGELES, Calif. --- After the Portland Pilots led for most of the night, the Loyola Marymount Lions scored six runs in the seventh inning before holding on for a 10-8 win in a West Coast Conference baseball game played on Saturday night at Page Stadium. Portland freshman Ryan Littlefield had four RBI's and hit his second career home run in the loss.
 
The Pilots (5-13, 0-2 WCC) did get the potential tying runs on base in the top of the ninth after LMU's (11-8, 2-0 WCC) Bret Dahlson struck out the first two batters to begin the inning. Littlefield kept the frame alive with his third hit of the night, and pinch hitter Kevin Farley followed with a double to give Portland runners on second and third with two outs.
 
Ryan Barr then sent a hard-hit line drive to left field, but Kyle Dozier was there to make the grab and preserve the win.
 
The game began with a four-run first inning by the Lions, but Portland's Turner Gill, Cody Lenahan and Littlefield each knocked in a run in the top of the third inning to pull the Pilots within a run. Gill's RBI came on a double, while Lenahan and Littlefield each had a run-scoring single.
 
An inning later, Portland exploded for five runs to surge into the lead. After Chet Thompson drew a walk to lead off the inning, Bo Cornish sent a double down the left field line that scored Thompson all the way from first to tie the game at 4-4. Moments later Caleb Whalen brought home the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly before Littlefield came to the plate with two outs and two runners on.
 
The freshman designated hitter then left the yard in left-center field to make it an 8-4 game.
 
The Portland lead would stand all the way until the seventh inning when the Lions greeted new pitcher Brandon Synder with three straight singles and a run to pull within 8-5. Davis Tominaga then replaced Snyder and recorded the first out of the inning, courtesy a sacrifice bunt, before Jimmy Jack drove in another run with another RBI single.
 
Now down just two and facing new pitcher Colin Feldtman, Ted Boeke drove a two-run single to left-center field that tied the game. On the same play, Brice Savage scored the go-ahead run on a Portland error to make it 9-8 in LMU's favor.
 
Austin Miller then capped the inning with single up the middle that scored Boeke.
 
Reliever Carlos Fuentes (2-1) earns the win for LMU, while Tominaga (0-1) is saddled with the loss after facing just one batter. Dahlson records his second save of the year.
 
Portland starter Kurt Yinger was able to recover after that rocky first inning. He lasted 6.0 innings, scattering eight hits and allowing just those four runs. He was replaced by Snyder to begin the bottom of the seventh.
 
Both teams had 14 hits, and Cornish joined Littlefield with a team-best three hits. Miller and Tommy Cheek each had three hits for the Lions.
 
LMU and Portland next conclude their three-game series with the finale tomorrow at 1 p.m.