Baseball drops series to George Fox

ORANGE, Calif. – The Chapman University baseball team fell in both ends of a doubleheader to visiting George Fox on Saturday at Hart Park. The Bruins took the first game 12-7 before rallying in extra inning to win the nightcap 12-6.

Game 1 – L, 12-6

A pair of first inning homers gave Chapman a 3-1 lead to start the game. Senior Drew Littwin hit a solo home run to tie the game at 1-1 and junior Davis Mieliwocki followed with a two-run shot – his second homer of the year.

Mieliwocki ended the game with three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored while freshman Cole Minato went 4-for-4 with an RBI.

After Littwin squeezed in a run in the second, the Bruins rallied for four in the fourth to take a 5-4 lead. It was short-lived as the first five batters in Chapman's half of the third singled to tie the game at 5-5. A one-out single from Mianto reclaimed the lead at 6-5 and chased the Bruins' starter.

Graduate student Nick Kondo welcomed the bullpen with a sacrifice fly to make the lead 7-5. The Bruins bats responded with one run in the fifth, three more in the sixth to take a lead, an RBI-single in the seventh and two more runs in the ninth.

The Bruins' bullpen kept Chapman off the board over the final 6.2 innings, limiting the Panthers to five hits.

Game 2 – L, 12-6 (12 innings)

The Bruins rallied late to force extra innings and put up six runs in the 12th to take the series. After the Bruins put up two in the eighth and two in the ninth to take a 5-4 lead, Littwin drove in the tying run in the bottom of the ninth with an infield single to push the game into extras.

George Fox scored once in the 10th and Chapman answered with an RBI-groundout from AJ Anzai. However, the Panthers couldn't match the six-run rally from the visitors in the 12th.

The Panthers were in control after a two-out rally in the third put them up 3-1. Mieliwocki singled in a run for his 11th RBI of the season, followed by an RBI-single from Kai Osaka and an RBI-double from AJ Anzai.

Freshman Max Banks put together another brilliant performance on the mound. He struck out eight and allowed just one run on five hits over 6.2 innings. Anzai had three hits and three RBIs to lead the Panthers offensively.

Chapman hosts  Bridgewater on Tuesday before playing the Panthers play their first conference series next weekend against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

By Steven Olveda
Sports Information Director

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