REDLANDS, Calif. – The University of Redlands baseball team (16-14, 7-10) won both games of their home Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) doubleheader with Whittier College on Saturday as they took game one 8-1 and game two 10-8.
Game 1 (Redlands 8 – Whittier 1)
Starter Miles Lu threw seven one-run innings as he allowed only four hits.
After scoring once in game one of the series, Luke De Vries, Jared Anderson, and Tyler Preece quadrupled it as they led the way during their four-run third. De Vries started it was an RBI single that scored Mason Chetcuti. Will Cell then scored on a wild pitch before an RBI triple from Anderson and a groundout from Preece.
In the fourth Chetcuti scored Jake Burgess with a single through the left side for a 5-0 lead. Later in the inning Anderson had a sacrifice fly to right that allowed Sebastian Mejorado to score.
Nathan Miller had an RBI single in the fifth, as did Anderson in the sixth.
Anderson finished with three RBI and reached base three times while Mejorado had a 2-for-5 game and Chetcuti was a perfect 3-for-3 with three runs scored.
Jakob Russell threw the final two innings and struck out three Poets.
Game 2 (Redlands 10 – Whittier 8)
Whittier got off to the fast start, leading 4-0 after an inning and a half. Redlands, though, got all four back in the bottom half of the second as Chetcuti hit a two-run home run to left, his first as a Bulldog, De Vires walked with the base loaded, and Anderson grounded out and scored Sean McCance.
The Poets responded with two runs in the next inning on a pair of singles.
De Vries brought the Bulldogs within one in the fourth on an RBI double that brought home Cell. De Vries then scored on a balk to tie the game at six. The lead run came on a Nathan Miller RBI single to right as Mejorado scored.
Following the third tie of the game in the fifth, Redlands put the game away in the bottom half with an RBI triple from McCance and an infield RBI single for Mejorado as they led 10-7 after five.
The key for the Bulldogs win was their relief pitching, Nathan Buchan came in and threw 5.1 innings with only two earned runs and four strikeouts for his third win while Patrick Perez got a five-out save.
Redlands will now prepare to start their three-game series with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps next Friday, April 12 at 3:00 p.m. at The Yard.