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Cal Lutheran CAL LUTH 5-3
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Winner Whittier WHITTIER 4-3-1
Cal Lutheran CAL LUTH
5-3
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Final
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Whittier WHITTIER
4-3-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cal Lutheran CAL LUTH 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 5 11 2
Whittier WHITTIER 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 X 6 7 1

W: L. Long (1-0) L: Frazier, JJ (0-1) S: T. Barrett (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Kingsmen Fall to Whitter 6-5 in Late Innings

WHITTIER, Calif. — Four Kingsmen had a multi-hit game, but Cal Lutheran baseball ultimately fell to Whittier 6-5 after the Poets took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning on Sunday afternoon. 

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Poets (4-3-1, 3-2 SCIAC) got on the board early with a run in the bottom of the first, but the Kingsmen (5-3, 2-3 SCIAC) tied it up in their half of the second inning and took the lead with a two-run fourth inning. 

In the second, Lucas Danielewicz doubled for the first of his two hits on the day and Sebastian Smith drove him in with a double of his own, the beginning of his 3-4 performance. Danielewicz got the fourth inning started the same way as the second with a double to left center and Troy Anderson worked a walk to follow it up. Smith knocked in Danielewicz again for his second RBI, and, with two outs, Carlos Vega singled through the right side to push across one more making it 3-1 Kingsmen. 

After giving up the game's first run in the first inning, starting pitcher John Frazier (2-1) sat down the Poets for the next four innings. He held the Poets scoreless over that stretch and went one-two-three in the second, third, and fourth innings. 

In the sixth inning, Danielewicz walked, worked his way to third, and was driven in by Noah Matsumoto for his team-leading third run of the game to add on some insurance, pushing the Kingsmen lead to 4-1. 

But the Poets quickly answered back with two runs in the bottom half of the sixth inning to make it 4-3 and took the lead with a three-run homer off of Frazier in the bottom of the eighth. 

Joshua Kim pitched in relief and got the Kingsmen out of a jam in the eighth, but down 6-4, the Kingsmen left the bases loaded in the top of the ninth and were unable to complete the comeback. 

THE NUMBERS
- Frazier (L): 7.0+ IP, seven hits, two walks, six earned runs, three K's
- Kim: 1.0 IP, no hits, no walks, no runs
- Smith: 3-4, 2B, two RBI's
- Danielewicz: 2-4, three runs, two 2B's (extended hitting streak to eight games) 
- Vega: 2-4, one RBI
- Wink: 2-4, two 1B's

UP NEXT
The Kingsmen look to take the last game of their three-game series against the Poets on the road, tomorrow, Monday, March 4 at 2:30 p.m.

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