AZUSA, Calif. –Just like the old ESPN baseball commercial—Biola digs the long ball, and it showed today.

The Eagles, who came into today with a whopping 26 home runs in just 18 games, put on quite a power display with 5 monstrous home runs to key their way to an 18-7 rout of Azusa Pacific in a GSAC game in Azusa.

Biola's Matt Parrish, the son of former major leaguer Lance Parrish, hit a grand slam with 2 outs in the fifth to break open what was a 5-3 game. The Eagles cruised in from there, scoring runs in all but 1 inning with the aid of 3 solo bombs and another 3-run shot.

Parrish finished 2-for-4 with a double, 2 runs and 4 RBIs. He made the Cougars pay for a costly error with his bomb to deep left center field after Cougar shortstop Shaun Beutner, who was filling in for an injured Robbie Lindsey, misplayed a routine popup to start the inning. After a foul-out and a walk, Cougar reliever Josh Breckley struck out Todd Stevenson for what should have been the third out. However, Breckley issued another walk, Parrish delivered the big blow, and the Cougars never recovered.

Eight of the Eagles' runs were unearned, including all 4 on the Parrish grand slam. The Cougars committed 5 errors, all of which led to Eagle runs.

Offensively, the Cougars had just 7 hits, 2 of them from Cameron Radonich, who continued his hot hitting. He is now 7-for-his-last-15. Shaun Beutner hit his second 3-run home run in as many games, lining a shot over the left field wall in the eighth. Ryan Marcos hit his third homer of the season in the ninth.

Rory Carrillo started and suffered his first collegiate loss despite allowing just a pair of earned runs in 2 innings. He was pulled in the third in favor of Breckley, who allowed the grand slam, but just 1 earned run and 3 hits in 2.2 innings.

Jonathan Grijalva (3-2) picked up the win for Biola tossing 5.1 innings and giving up just 5 hits and 2 earned runs.

With the loss, Azusa Pacific drops to 8-10 overall, 5-6 GSAC. Biola improves to 13-6, 6-4.