PASADENA, Calif. (April 17, 2010) – Fifteen runs on 17 hits were just what the Occidental College baseball team needed on Saturday afternoon at Caltech as they got back on track with a 15-5 victory after falling Friday afternoon to Cal Lutheran University, 7-2 in Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.

Five different players had multi-hit games with Jacob Lee and Dale Garrett each collecting three-hit apiece. The duo were 3-for-3 and 3-for-4, respectively, each driving in a run and scoring twice. Garrett, Daniel Kelley and Tyler Eyrich each doubled in the game.

Also recording two-hit days were Logan Allen, Casey Harms and Jacob Coleman. Oxy second baseman Kyle Spaulding reached base five times, scoring three runs for the Black and Orange. Anthony Salsedo started in centerfield, singling and walking, scoring both times he reached.  

On the hill Andrew Millian got the win after throwing three innings, scattering three hits, allowing no runs and striking out a pair. Jacob Blodgett and Ross Pomerantz tossed an inning apiece and did not allow a hit between them. Pomerantz struck out two of the three batters he faced.

Friday afternoon, the Kingsmen snapped a four-game Tigers' win streak at Ullman Stadium on George “Sparky” Anderson Field.

Oxy jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but were unable to score again until the ninth while CLU put up a pair in the first inning, pushing the ultimate winning run across the plate in the third. The Kingsmen scored four runs in the eighth, three by way of a long ball off the bat of leadoff batter Chris Hertz.

Eyrich kept the Tigers in the game, allowing three runs (two earned) on nine hits in 6.2 innings, but was tagged with the loss.

Occidental (12-21, 9-14 SCIAC) will return to Anderson Field tomorrow for a 1:00 p.m. first pitch against the University of Redlands.