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Steve Gibbons
9
Winner Portland POR 11-42, 6-20 WCC
5
Pacific PAC 14-36, 10-16 WCC
Winner
Portland POR
11-42, 6-20 WCC
9
Final
5
Pacific PAC
14-36, 10-16 WCC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Portland POR 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 10 2
Pacific PAC 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 5 10 2

W: Yinger, Kurt (3-9) L: LYDON, Will (1-10)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Gill and Lenahan Each Drive in Three as Pilots Pound Pacific

STOCKTON, Calif. --- Seniors Turner Gill and Cody Lenahan each had three RBI's and the Portland bats provided starter Kurt Yinger all the run support he would need as the Pilots cruised past the Pacific Tigers 9-5 in a West Coast Conference baseball game on Saturday afternoon at Klein Family Field. Gill had one double, Lenahan had two and the Pilots used a six-run second inning to take control of the game.
 
Yinger (3-9) lasted 8.0 innings to notch his third win of the year. The senior right-hander scattered nine hits, struck out a season-high six and walked just one. Four of the five runs he let in were earned, and Billy Sahlinger pitched a scoreless ninth to complete the win.
 
The Pilots (11-42, 6-20 WCC) jumped ahead early with two runs in the first inning, courtesy an RBI single by Gill and an RBI double by Lenahan. Portland then broke the game open with that big second inning, during which the Pilots combined for six hits. Gill drove in two with a base hit, Kevin Wade followed with a run-scoring single and Lenahan registered his second straight RBI double.
 
Devin Kopas added a two-run single and just like that the Pilots were ahead 8-0. Portland added an insurance run in the fourth inning on an RBI double by Gill.
 
Pacific (14-36, 10-16 WCC) tried to climb back into the game but the deficit was too large. One bright spot for the Tigers came in the bottom of the sixth inning when J.J. Wagner hit a two-run, inside-the-park home run down the left field line. The ball took a funny hop in the corner to get past Gill, Portland's left fielder, which allowed Wagner to come all the way around to score.
 
Pacific's starter Will Lydon (1-10) is saddled with the loss after lasting just an inning-and-a-third. He was followed by a pair of relievers out of the bullpen.
 
Gill was 3-for-5 overall, and his two doubles give him 55 for his career, which is just two shy of matching the all-time record for career doubles at UP. Lenahan went 2-for-4 and the Pilots had 10 hits as a team.
 
Pacific won the three-game series opener 2-0 on Friday night, setting up the rubber match tomorrow at 1 p.m. The series finale is the final game of the 2015 season.
 
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