AZUSA, Calif. -- For the most part, all it took was 2 pitches to put an end to this one.

Coba Canales and Johnny Soberal made sure of that. Jason Ray then sealed it.

Canales and Soberal hit the first 2 pitches of the game for back-to-back home runs, Ray backed them up with 7 solid innings, and Azusa Pacific was off and running to an eventual 9-2 GSAC win over The Master's Friday night in Azusa.

The Cougars finished with 14 hits, 4 of them home runs, but none were bigger than the first 2. Canales hammered the first pitch of the game from Jacob Ebner over the left-center field fence for his second homer in as many games, and Soberal followed with his fourth bomb of the season down the left field line on Ebner's next delivery, and the Cougars were quickly up 2-0.

In the second, Philip Seston got one right back for the Mustangs with his fourth round-tripper of the season, a monster blast to deep left-center, but Ray settled in and was virtually untouchable after that. He finished by scattering 7 hits, and allowing just 2 earned runs. He didn't allow a walk and struck out 9 to move to 5-2 on the season.

Jeff Staniland finished 3-for-5 with 5 RBIs, and he made the Mustangs pay after they intentionally walked a red-hot Stephen Vogt in the second. With runners at second and third and 2 outs, the Mustangs elected to give Vogt a free pass. Staniland responded with a 2-RBI single back up the middle to give the Cougars 4-1 lead. The Mustangs got no closer.

Ebner (2-3) lasted just 3 innings, giving up 9 hits and 5 earned runs.

Jonathan Dravecky pushed the lead up to 5-1 with his first career homer in the third. The Mustangs made it 5-2 with a pair of doubles in the fifth of Ray. Daniel Flores led off with a double when Canales seemingly made a spectacular running catch in deep left-center, only to have the ball jarred loose when he ran into the fence just one step after making the catch. Then, with one out, Zane Jensen hit a ball up deep in the hole behind second that deflected off a lunging Soberal's leg and into left field. Without hesitation, the speedy Jensen raced around first and into second for an RBI double. Ray, though, induced back-to-back flyouts by Brett Jaime and Tom Barrington to end the inning.

Vogt, who earlier in the game extended his hitting streak to 17 and his streak of reaching base safely to 83, had an RBI groundout in fifth to give the Cougars a 6-2 lead before the game was delayed after the sixth for a half hour because of an electrical failure. After play resumed, Staniland buried the Mustangs with a 3-run bomb to left-center top complete the scoring.

The damage could have been much worse as the Cougars stranded 13 runners on base, twice leaving the bases loaded.

Kelly Strickland came on and threw a scoreless eighth and ninth to close the door.

Canales, who is 11-for-17 in the past 4 games, finished 3-for-5, scoring 3 times. He had an infield single to short and a bunt single to third. Soberal was 2-for-2 with a pair of runs. He also had 2 of the Cougars' 10 walks. James O'Neill had 2 hits as all but one Cougar starter had at least one hit.