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Michael Aikawa jumps and throws the ball to first base
Siena Flock '28
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Linfield LINFIELD 15-10
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Winner Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 13-10
Linfield LINFIELD
15-10
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Final
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Lewis & Clark LEWIS &
13-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Linfield LINFIELD 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 9 1
Lewis & Clark LEWIS & 2 4 0 0 2 1 1 0 X 10 15 1

W: Eisen, Owen (4-1) L: Wyatt Hurley (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Seth Orensky

Baseball Dominates Linfield In Non-Conference Win

Michael Aikawa hit a grand slam in the second inning to blow the game open

PORTLAND, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College baseball jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings and nine River Otters pitchers combined to limit visiting Linfield to two runs in a 10-2 non-conference win. 
 
THE BASICS 
 
Lewis & Clark 13-10
Linfield 15-9

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
In a rare non-conference game against a conference foe, Lewis & Clark racked up 15 hits and scored in five of the first seven innings, to earn a convincing win over the Wildcats. 
 
Head coach Matt Kosderka elected to use Tuesday's contest as a bullpen game with each pitcher throwing an inning. Junior Owen Eisen earned the start and threw a scoreless first inning to earn the win. Sophomores Sam Burchi and Dillon Foster followed and first year Vaughn McCrea followed with a scoreless fourth in his collegiate home debut. Juniors Austin Watkins, Felix Gibeault (one run) and Connor Broschard (one run) followed McCrea. Sophomore Matt Stanislavsky struck out the side in the eighth and Bret Potter pitched a scoreless ninth. In total, the River Otters posted 11 strikeouts and gave up nine hits and nine walks. 
 
Junior Michael Aikawa and sophomores Will Michelman and Jacob Shannon-Wilkerson all posted three hits. Aikawa went 3-5 with a run scored and four RBI on a grand slam in the second inning. Michelman finished 3-4 with two runs, two RBI and a solo home run. Shannon-Wilkerson chipped in three hits in three at-bats, a run scored, two RBI, a walk, a double and a stolen base. 
 
Juniors Eli Steinhaus (two runs and a walk) and Bret Potter (one run) added two hits apiece. 
 
Lewis & Clark grabbed control of the game from the outset. Steinhaus led off the bottom of the first with a double off the right-field wall and took third base on an Aikawa single that one-hopped the wall in right. Potter made it 1-0 when his groundout plated Steinhaus. Michelman made it 2-0 just four batters in, when he hit a home run over the high-fence in right. 
 
Lewis & Clark tripled their lead in the second. With one down, juniors Evan Maury and Shannon-Wilkerson recorded back-to-back singles. The River Otters loaded the bases when Shannon-Wilkerson beat the shortstop to the second-base bag on a Steinhaus ground ball and the first baseman couldn't hold on to the throw for the third out. Aikawa made Linfield pay with a grand slam over the left-field fence for a 6-0 lead. 
 
The visitors would put runners on in every inning and loaded the bases in the fourth, fifth and ninth innings. Linfield would ultimately leave 18 runners on base. 
 
In the fourth, McCrea loaded the bases with a pair of walks and a hit by pitch but induced a pop up to second base to get out of the jam. Watkins faced bases loaded with no outs in the fifth but recorded a strikeout and a 6-4-3 double play to get out of the inning unscathed. Linfield loaded the bases with one out in the ninth but Potter posted a strikeout and a foul out to Aikawa at third base to close out the game. 
 
Lewis & Clark added their final four runs across the fifth-seventh innings. In the fifth, Michelman and senior Ryan Sanderson opened the frame with singles. With two down, Shannon-Wilkerson ripped a double to left-center field to score both runners. 
 
The River Otters added a two-out run in the sixth. Potter kept the inning going with a two-out single and Michelman doubled to center field to make it 9-1. Senior Brandon Gonzaga capped off the scoring in the seventh with a sacrifice fly to left field to plate Evyn Lewis. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS 
  • Stanislavsky (three), Potter (two), Broschard (two), Eisen, Foster, McCrea and Watkins all recorded strikeouts in the win. 
  • McCrea and Broschard each made their first appearances for Lewis & Clark since the opening weekend of the season. 
  • Aikawa had driven in 10 runs across his last four games. The junior is currently riding an eight-game streak and has posted at least one RBI in seven of the eight games. 
  • Michelman is now hitting .400 on the season, after his third three-hit game in his past six contests. The junior has hit safely in six-straight games and 14 of his 17 appearances this year.  
WHO'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will kick off a three-game, non-conference series against #12/17 Pomona-Pitzer on Friday at 3 p.m. 
 
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