Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 AZUSA, Calif. – Chalk up another successfully doubleheader for the Cougars.

Azusa Pacific swept their sixth doubleheader of the season by taking a pair from Hawaii Pacific. The 18th ranked Cougars improve to 21-8 overall and 11-7 in PacWest games while Hawaii falls to 12-10 and 9-8 respectively.  

Game One – Azusa Pacific 6, Hawaii Pacific 2

The consistent efforts of Josh Staumont and Jordan Brower paid their dividends during the victory. 

The Cougars put their first two runs on the scoreboard during their first trip to the plate. Mitch Dergazarian singled then scored two batters later on wild pitch. On the next pitch Adrian Tovalin drove the ball deep to centerfield for a triple which scored Brower. 

The Sharks tied the score in the third inning with a hit, two walks an Azusa Pacific error. That brief hiccup for the Cougars was wiped clean on a single swing of the bat by Brower. The senior lifted an opposite field two-run homerun that clear the fence in left field.

Staumont continued his mastery of the Hawaii Pacific in the middle innings as the score remained 4-2 Azusa Pacific. In the seventh inning Brower hit his second big fly of the day with another opposite field two-run homerun to give his team a comfortable four-run cushion.  

Brower ended the contest with a hit in three of his four at-bats. He had nine total bases with four RBIs and three runs scored. He now had 19 games this season with at least two hits. 

Staumont continued his solid season by going 7.0 innings where he struck out six and gave-up just two hits. The junior upped his PacWest leading strikeout total to 63.

Jonny Reid got the next four outs before Josh Grajeda closed out the game by getting the final two outs. Reid has yet to allow an earned run this season in 10.0 innings.

Game Two – Azusa Pacific 6, Hawaii Pacific 3

Similarly to the opener the Cougars jumped out early. During the first stanza, the home team crossed the plate four times on three hits highlighted by a two-run single by Ryan Santana. 

Azusa Pacific built on the four-run lead in the third inning as Santana led off the frame with a double to deep center field then scored three batters later on a sacrifice bunt by Joe Huthsing. Dergazarian manufactured a run in the fourth inning after a leadoff walk he stole second base before eventually scoring on a wild pitch to lift the Cougars edge to 6-0. 

Hawaii Pacific starting pitcher Harley Holt, who came into the game with a microscopic 1.47 ERA, was touched up for all six earned runs in the defeat.

William Leskovec hit a solo homerun with one-out in the seventh inning to break the Sharks scoreless stretch. Hawaii Pacific scratched across two more runs and chased Cougar starter Jacob Cage to trim their six-run deficit in half.

Jonny Reid came in for the second straight game as he worked a perfect eighth inning with three strikeouts to preserve the lead. Josh Grajeda got his second save of the day, and sixth of the season, by working the ninth inning. 

Cage struck out four and scattered eight hits during his 6.2 innings of work.

Offensively Degazarian recorded a three hit effort in four plate appearances while scoring twice. Santana went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.