Los Angeles, CA— Oxy baseball hosted the Whittier Poets on Friday afternoon at Anderson Field for game 1 of a 3 game set. 

In the 1st inning, the Poets were threatening to score with runners on first and second base but Oxy starter Declan Sklut escaped the jam with a huge strikeout for the third out of the inning. The Poets would break through to score one run on two hits and an error in the 2nd inning to take a 1-0 lead. 

Both teams would not score again until the top of the 5th, when Whittier scored one more run after a double and a single allowed them to have first and third with one out and a RBI fielder's choice brought in the run. 

Oxy would bounce back and tie the game in the bottom half of the inning, as Tyler Kubo and Nick Gonzalez were on base after drawing walks, and Jackson Short delivered the clutch two out, two-run double to tie the game at 2-2. 

The Poets would hit a 2-run home run in the top of the 6th to take the lead back and one more run would come in to score on an error to make it 5-2 Poets. The game would go on to finish by that score as the Poets secured the game 1 victory. 

The Tigers and Poets will be back in action in Whittier on Saturday for games 2 and 3 of the series.