(FRESNO, Calif.) No. 8 PLNU Baseball swept its fifth-straight PacWest series to open conference play, taking both games of Saturday's doubleheader at Fresno Pacific by scores of 15-5 and 14-5.
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Point Loma has now won 20-straight games to extend its NCAA-era program record winning streak, while the Sea Lions also set a new NCAA-era program best mark by scoring double-digit runs in six straight.
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PLNU combined for 36 hits across the two games, with
Owen May and
Tristan Moore each tallying four hits each in game one.
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Moore,
Ryan Ruch and
Hank Smith all homered in Saturday's opener, with Smith swatting a grand slam as part of a five-run ninth that extended PLNU's lead to double digits.
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Devin Norton earned the win on the mound, throwing six innings of one-run ball while striking out five.
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May then had three more hits in game two, including a homer, which followed a three-run shot from
Aiden Arriaga, who had five RBIs in the game. Arriaga's three-run blast in the first inning started a stretch of three-straight innings that the Sea Lions scored three runs in.
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Point Loma (24-3 overall, 20-0 PacWest) will look to continue making history when it returns home to host Azusa Pacific on Friday in a doubleheader beginning at noon.