Game 1 Boxscore | Game 2 Boxscore
SAN DIEGO - Point Loma Nazarene University swept a non-conference baseball doubleheader from the Savannah College of Art and Design 14-3 and 10-2 at Carroll B. Land Stadium Saturday (Jan. 30) afternoon.
PLNU improved to 3-0-1 while the Bees fell to 0-3-0. SCAD returns home to face Flagler College Tuesday (Feb. 2) at 4 p.m. in the Bees' home opener at Historic Grayson Stadium.
In the opener, the second-ranked Sea Lions jumped on SCAD starter
Nick Iuni (0-1) as they took a 9-0 lead through three innings. Wes Kartch, who went 2-for-3 with 4 RBI in game one, had a three-run homer to right field to highlight a five-run third inning. SCAD scored their first run on a leadoff homer in the fifth by
Eduardo Acosta, but Point Loma Nazarene answered with three more runs in their half of the inning.
SCAD got its final runs in the ninth on a
Patrick Braswell RBI double and a RBI ground out by
Carson Parker.
Point Loma Nazarene jumped on the Bees at the start of game two as the Sea Lions took a 4-0 lead through two innings off SCAD pitcher
Stephen Shackleford (0-1). SCAD cut the lead in half as the Bees pushed across two runs in the top of the fourth on back-to-back sacrifice flies by
Michael Imbriale and
Scott Shambaugh.
The Sea Lions pushed across single runs in the fourth and fifth innings before breaking the game open with a four-run sixth. Allen Boyer had a solo homer for Point Loma Nazarene in the fourth while teammate Rashad Taylor added a two-run shot in the sixth.