RIDGEFIELD, Wash. --- The Pilots combined for eight home runs overall, Travis Turney and Tracye Tammaro both homered twice, and Portland easily took both ends of a double header from the Nevada Wolf Pack in the baseball season opener played on Friday at the Ridgefield Outdoor Recreation Complex. The Pilots won the first game 14-1 before blanking the Wolf Pack 13-0 in game two.
 
The Pilots (2-0) jumped out an early lead in game one when Jake Holcroft led off the bottom of the first inning with a solo home run to deep left field. It's the first career home run for Holcroft, a redshirt-freshman seeing his first collegiate action.
 
In the bottom of the third inning, the Pilots pushed their lead to 5-0 when they plated four runs during the frame. With runners on the corners, Chad Stevens lifted a double into the right field corner that scored Christian Cooney. Tammaro followed with a line drive home run to right field, giving the Pilots a 5-0 cushion.
 
That's all the run support starter Eli Morse would need as the junior right-hander was dealing. He limited the Wolf Pack to just two hits during the first six innings.
 
In the fifth inning, Turney belted his first home run of the game when he turned on a fast ball and left the yard to right field. The blast came with two runners on, and it made it an 8-0 ballgame.
 
The Pilots added two more runs in the seventh inning, and in the eighth Turney, Dutton Elske, and Jake Tsukada hit back-to-back-to-back jacks as the Pilots put the game out of reach. Turney's was a two-run homer, and the homers from Elske and Tsukada were both solo shots.
 
Morse (1-0) went 7.0 innings for the win, yielding just one run on four hits, and he struck out four. Reliever Brett Gillis struck out the side in the top of the eighth, and he worked the final 2.0 innings.
 
The loss goes to Nevada starter Owen Sharts (0-1), who allowed seven runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings. Jordan Jackson took care of the final 3.2 innings, and he surrendered seven runs on nine hits. Nevada's lone run came on a solo homer by Dillan Shrum in the seventh.
 
Turney finished with five RBI's on three hits, and Holcroft and Elske also collected three hits.
 
The Pilots picked up game two where they left off the first game and hit two more home runs in the bottom of the first. With on a runner on, Tammaro hammered his second homer of the day to right, and freshman Sean Mulcare followed with a solo blast to give the Pilots the early edge.
 
The game remained 3-0 until the seventh inning when the Pilots pushed four more across. Tammaro drew a bases loaded walk in the frame, and Mulcare sent a one-run double down the left field line. Nich Klemp provided an RBI single up the middle as the Pilots took control of the game, up 7-0.
 
Meanwhile on the mound, starter Christian Peters was masterful. He scattered only four hits in 7.0 scoreless innings, fanned a career-high 12, and he struck out the side in the seventh, his final inning of work.
 
Portland added two more runs in the bottom of the seventh, courtesy a wild pitch with the bases loaded and a sac fly from Tammaro. Four more runs came across an inning later when Gabe Skoro was plunked with the bases loaded, Gillis sent a sacrifice fly to center, and Cheney hit a two-run single to right.
 
Tammaro combined for seven RBI's in the two games, and Portland combined for 32 hits. Stevens registered three hits in the second game.
 
Peters (1-0) earns his first win in his first start, and reliever Caleb Franzen struck three in 2.0 innings.
 
Starter Jake Jackson (0-1) is saddled with the loss, and he was one of six pitchers used by the Wolf Pack (0-2).
 
The four-game series is scheduled to continue tomorrow, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. at the RORC.