The Concordia baseball team dropped both games on Friday in Riverside against the #7 California Baptist Lancers 7-4 and 6-5.

Concordia 4, California Baptist 7

Concordia had seven hits and one error.

Starting on the mound for the Eagles was Collin Orellana.  He pitched through the second and allowed seven runs, six earned, on four hits and recorded a strikeout.  Following the loss, his record fell to 4-3 on the season.  Spencer Moran pitched the third inning and finished the game.  He allowed just three hits and no runs.

The Lancers scored four runs in the first inning after the first three batters reached on a hit pitch and two walks.  Cal Baptist put the ball in play to score four runs and take a 4-0 lead.

In the second, the Eagles responded with two runs of their own.  John Bornhop hit a leadoff double to right field and Spencer Nielsen singled to center, advancing to second on an error, which allowed Bornhop to cross home.  Joey Thompson hit a base hit to center and drove in Nielsen to cut the lead to 4-2.

The Eagles started the bottom of the second with a throwing error which put leadoff batter Jake Gallaway on first.  After a sac bunt and a single up the middle, the Lancers extended their lead to 5-2.

The Lancers continued to hit the ball in the outfield and scored two more runs to take a 7-2 advantage.

In the third, Spencer Nielsen and Tino Leite both had RBI's to score Brett Barker and Chad Whiteaker.  The Eagles trailed 7-4.

Neither teams were able to bring anyone across the rest of the game and the Lancers won, 7-4.

Concordia 5, California Baptist 6

The Eagles had seven hits and recorded an error.

Morgan Brannock was the starting pitcher and threw until there were two outs in the fourth.  He allowed three runs on seven hits.  Garrett Kraemer came in with two outs in the fourth and a runner on first.  Kraemer allowed four hits and three runs, while recording two strikeouts.  He picked up the loss and his record fell to 2-1 on the season.

The Eagles scored in the first on an RBI ground out by Brett Barker to score Ryan Land. 

They led 1-0 until the third, when Ryan Land scored to put the Eagles ahead, 2-0 lead.  Nielsen singled with John Bornhop on first and Chad Whiteaker on third to record the RBI and extend the lead, 3-0.

In the bottom of the third, the Lancers rallied and had runners on second and third.  A single up the middle by Brian Ruhm scored two runs and Ruhm later scored on a single by Stephen Lohr to tie the game, 3-3.

In the fourth Hunter Holland hit an RBI single to regain the lead for the Eagles but the Lancers responded in the fifth after Stephen Lohr homered to tie the game at four.

The Eagles loaded the bases in the sixth following two walks and a hit batter.  Cal Baptist pitcher, Jeremy McDonald, threw a wild pitch and Luke Hussung came home for the go ahead run.  The Eagles led 5-4.

In the seventh, the Lancers had runners on first and second with two outs with a chance to tie or win the game.  Garrett Kraemer walked Antonio Chavarria to load the bases and bring up Mark Sanchez, who hit a walk off single to score the go ahead run and take down the Eagles, 6-5.

From Eagles head coach Joe Turgeon:

"California Baptist is a great team and it was a battle back and forth all day. 
Coach Fahey and Coach Benjamin have been developing our offense extremely well and that showed.  Our defensive effort helped keep us in the game and everyone did well playing in the wet weather.

Giving up free bases through walks and hit batters hurt us, and at times offensively we weren't able to take advantage of having runners in scoring position.

There aren't any moral victories when you go down 3-0 in a series but I don't believe it takes away from our season and where we.  We continue to be together and play well as a team even though we came up a little bit short.  I am proud of our guys for competing and keeping their fight.

We've been playing with the right effort, competitiveness, and belief that we will be successful and tomorrow we plan to be positive and ready to play."

Following the doubleheader, the Eagles record drops to 19-21 overall and 15-12 in the PacWest.

The final game of the four game series with the Lancers is tomorrow, April 9^th at 10:30 am in Riverside.