Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 AZUSA, Calif. – Playing their first conference games against Westmont in 12 years, the Cougar baseball team probably wished it could wait a little longer before facing the Warriors, losing both halves of the Friday doubleheader at the Cougar Baseball Complex by scores of 9-4 and 11-3.

Game One:  Westmont 9, Azusa Pacific 4 (10 innings)

Home runs were the order of the day for the visiting Warriors in the opening game, as Westmont slugged five over the course of the contest, scoring all nine of their runs via the long ball.  A pair of homers in the second allowed the Warriors to jump out to a quick 4-0 lead.  The Cougars began clawing their way back into the contest in the fifth when George Christison drove in Omar Lopez with a sac fly.  In the bottom of the seventh, the first two Cougar batters were hit by pitches.  After a pitching change and a sacrifice bunt, Allan Camarillo drove in a run with another sac fly to make it 4-2.  Christison then doubled in another run to cut the lead in half before the Cougars left the bases loaded in the inning.

Cade Marshman opened the bottom of the eighth with a solo shot to left to tie the contest at 4-4.  But for the second consecutive inning, the Cougars left a runner on third, and that was the last chance they would prove to have in regulation.  In the 10th inning, the Warriors blew the game open with three home runs with a pair of walks in between, putting five runs on the board while the Warrior bullpen retired the final nine Cougar batters in a row.  Marshman and Lopez each had a pair of hits in the game, while Matthew Brock and Jake Vargas each threw a scoreless inning out of the bullpen to help send the game to extra innings.

Game Two:  Westmont 11, Azusa Pacific 3 (7 innings)

Azusa Pacific actually took the early lead in the nightcap, as Cade Marshman reached base and came around to score via a series of errors in the bottom of the first.  That advantage would be short lived as Westmont would put up three runs in the second, taking advantage of a second chance when what was initially ruled an inning-ending double play was instead overruled and changed to a run-scoring fielder's choice.

In the top of the third, the dam burst, as the Warriors sent 12 batters to the plate, coming up with five singles, two walks, one hit batter, one grand slam, and eight runs to take an 11-1 lead.  Meanwhile, the Cougars were kept without a hit until there were two out in the fifth inning.  Azusa Pacific would finally get back onto the scoreboard in the sixth via a Diego Frey RBI single, followed in the seventh by a pinch hit home run from Will Allen.  Four of the Cougars' five hits in game two came from pinch hitters, while the bullpen trio of Alfredo Frey, Brendon Cannings, and Aisea Ahokovi combined to keep Westmont off the scoreboard over the final 4.1 innings of the game.

Up Next:  Azusa Pacific (17-21, 12-9 PacWest)  will wait out the weather this weekend before making the trek north to Santa Barbara to complete this split series against Westmont.  First pitch for game one of Monday's doubleheader against the Warriors is scheduled for 12:00 noon.