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Winner Azusa Pacific APU 15-2, 7-1 GSAC
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Vanguard VUSC 1-9, 0-7 GSAC
Winner
Azusa Pacific APU
15-2, 7-1 GSAC
9
Final
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Vanguard VUSC
1-9, 0-7 GSAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Azusa Pacific APU 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 9 16 1
Vanguard VUSC 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 4 7 0

W: Gehle, Peter (2-0) L: CARLS (0-2)

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Azusa Pacific APU 15-3, 7-2 GSAC
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Winner Vanguard VUSC 2-9, 1-7 GSAC
Azusa Pacific APU
15-3, 7-2 GSAC
4
Final
7
Vanguard VUSC
2-9, 1-7 GSAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Azusa Pacific APU 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 7 1
Vanguard VUSC 0 1 0 6 0 0 X 7 6 0

W: ANDERSON (2-2) L: Gagné, Christian (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Joe Reinsch

Split To Be Tied

AZUSA, Calif. -- Juniors Brice Cutspec and Chris Feicht each homered twice as Azusa Pacific split its first Golden State Athletic Conference road doubleheader Saturday at Vanguard. Both players went deep once in each game, lifting the NAIA's No. 8-ranked Cougars to a 9-4 opening-game win before Vanguard came back for a 7-4 win in the nightcap.
 
Both teams used 6-run innings to solidify games they never trailed in. In the opener, Azusa Pacific took a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning, and Cutspec's 3-run shot to right capped a 6-run frame that pushed the Cougars' lead to 9-1. However, Vanguard snapped a 1-1 tie with 6 runs in the bottom of the fourth in the 7-inning nightcap, and despite scoring in 3 straight frames, Azusa Pacific ran out of innings to complete a comeback.
 
Cutspec and Feicht were a combined 11-for-15 on the day, scoring 4 runs and accounting for 8 RBIs in the doubleheader. Both went 4-for-5 in the first game, with Cutspec driving in 5 runs, while Feicht was 2-for-3 with a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the fifth inning in the second game.
 
Junior lefthander Peter Gehle earned the win after hurling 5 scoreless innings in Game 1, surrendering just 4 hits while striking out 6 Vanguard batters. Senior righthander Ben Jones slammed the door in a non-save situation, entering the game with 2 outs in the eighth inning while protecting a 9-4 lead with 2 runners on base. He retired 4 of the 5 batters he faced to help seal the opening-game win.
 
In the nightcap, a leadoff hit-batsman in the bottom of the second led to Vanguard's first score, an unearned run on an Azusa Pacific 1-out error. The Cougars answered in the top of the third, using a leadoff hit-batsman to equal the score at 1-1. However, a leadoff walk issued to Vanguard's Jason Schaniel marked the beginning of Vanguard's 6-run inning. Joshua Manzano's 1-out home run plated Schaniel, and senior righthander Christian Gagné put the next 2 batters on via hit-batsman, setting up a pair of runs on Nicholas Akins' 2-run double to left that gave Vanguard a 5-1 lead.
 
Jones came on in relief of Gagné, but 2 more run-scoring singles pushed the lead to 7-1 before Jones could get out of the inning with a pair of flyouts. Feicht homered to left-center in the fifth inning, and Cutspec went deep to right in the sixth inning to cut the lead to 7-3. Sophomore rightfielder Virgil Chavira led off the seventh inning with a double, 1 of his 3 hits on the day, and he scored on senior shortstop Shaun Lane's 2-out single that brought the tying run to the plate with 2 outs.
 
With the split, Azusa Pacific remains in what is now a 3-team tie for first place in the GSAC standings with a 7-2 conference record. The Cougars are now 15-3 overall on the year, while Vanguard improves to 2-9 overall, 1-7 GSAC. Azusa Pacific hosts La Verne in non-conference action on Tuesday, March 3, at 5 p.m., before returning to the conference schedule against Fresno Pacific on Thursday, March 5, at 2:30 p.m., the first pair of games in a season-long 8-game homestand.
 
 
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