AZUSA, Calif. -- NAIA All-American and GSAC Player of the Year candidate Carl Galloway blasted a 1-out, 3-run home run to cap the NAIA's No. 8-ranked Biola's 6-run seventh and lift the Eagles to a 13-12 GSAC win over Azusa Pacific Tuesday.

The win moves Biola to 33-9 overall, 19-7 in the GSAC and coupled with Vanguard's 14-1 win over No. 4 Point Loma Nazarene, it gives Biola a half game lead over the Sea Lions in the sprint for the GSAC title. The Eagles, who are looking for their fifth GSAC crown in the past 7 years, host Point Loma Saturday in a doubleheader.

It is also the first time since 1968 that Biola has swept a season-series from Azusa Pacific.

And as big as the win is for Biola, the loss is just as devastating for the Cougars, who fall to 27-18, 12-13 with their third straight loss. Coupled with Concordia's 8-5 win over California Baptist, the Cougars' loss drops them to 2 games behind Concordia for the fourth and final playoff spot with 3 to play. The Cougars must now win each of their final 3 games and hope Concordia loses each of their final 3.

What makes Galloway's bomb, which was his tenth of the season and a Biola-record 44th of his career, even bigger is the fact that it not only completed a 6-run inning, but it also turned a 12-7 Eagle deficit into a 13-12 lead. And that came just one inning after the Cougars erased a 7-3 hole of their own with 9-run sixth.

Biola scored a pair of runs in the sixth to open up a 7-3 lead, but Azusa Pacific answered with 9 unearned runs in the sixth, taking advantage of 3 Biola errors. After Stephen Vogt extended his hitting streak to 27 games with a 2-RBI double that gave the Cougars an 8-7 lead, Mike Casserly (5-0) relieved Justin Angevine and intentionally walked Robbie Lindsey to set up a force, before Billy Gwinn reached on the Eagles' third error of the inning to load the bases. Glenn Hedgpeth then delivered his GSAC-leading 14th home run of the season well over the centerfield fence to give the Cougars their 12-7 lead.

The Eagles answered with 3 straight singles to open the seventh, and after reliever Josh Grant induced Anthony Manuel into a lineout and a near double play, Phillip Ward smacked a 2-RBI single to center. Brandon Sisk (4-3) then relieved Grant and his first pitch went to the backstop putting runners at second and third. Matt Parrish, who was 5-for-6, then singled to center to drive in Ward and set up Galloway's heroics.

In each of the final 3 innings, the Cougars put the tying run on base and moved it to second in the seventh and ninth, but failed to deliver as Sal Poti closed the door for his single-season Biola record tenth save.

Cameron Radonich was 3-for-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBIs. Lindsey had 2 hits, including his eighth home run of the season that gave the Cougars a 2-0 lead in the first, and 2 RBIs. Hedgpeth, Ryan Marcos and Jake Haaker each had 2 hits.