The Trail

Issue date: 3/9/07 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Daniel Adler Sean Bayha stretches for the throw as he covers first base. The Loggers secured two victories over the Wildcats on the weekend.

It was indeed a captivating and successful weekend for the UPS baseball squad as they completely swept the Lindfield Wildcats, three games to none. For Saturday's doubleheader, the Loggers threw two of their top pitchers, Evan Scandling and Ryan Gustafson, in a one-two combo that knocked Linfield off their feet and secured two wins, 2-1 and 8-3.

The first game was slow to get off the ground as both pitchers showed dominance and ownership of the plate. It was not until the bottom of the third inning when the Loggers took the lead off a single up the right side, hit by Michael Olsen, which would score the speedy Timothy Staggall.

"Its like pimpin" said Steggall, "You either got [speed], or you don't and you know I got a lot of both."

The game would go on to be run-less until the seventh, when Linfileds Kearns singled into the left side to advance and score Stanly.

However, this attempt at a comeback did not faze the focus of the Logger squad.

The following inning, Olsen, walked to get on base and was advanced to second when Joseph Newland was hit by a pitch. Douglas Cox pinch ran for Olsen, whose blood pressure is higher than his batting average. Cox would score off a bonehead throwing error by the Linfield third baseman to seal the deal.

The key player in this win was pitcher Evan Scandling. He pitched the full nine innings with two hits and one run allowed. Newland took a beating with two hit by pitches.

The second game of the double header was the opposite of the defensive battle in the first game. The Loggers proved to Linfield that they not only had the bullpen to shut them out for eight innings, but that they also had the offensive dynamism to tear the cats a new one.

The Loggers started off strong with an RBI from Newland to score the one and only, Timothy Steggall.

In the second inning, Linfield responded with three runs. Details about these events are not necessary because the Loggers easily tied the game in the following inning, and would pour salt in their wounds by posting up five more runs.
Ryan Gustafson threw an amazing eight scoreless innings and stuck out five.

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