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The first-ever game between the Thunderbirds and Redhawks was a good one. The Redhawks outhit the Birds 8-5, but two of the five hits came in the fourth inning. DH Nic Lendvoy got a single, and CF Blake Carruthers was hit by a pitch. Lendvoy and Carruthers moved up on a wild pitch, and Lendvoy scored on a single by RF Sean Pisarski. Carruthers came home on a ground out by 2B Alex White, and the Birds had a 2-0 lead. The Redhawks made it 2-1 in the sixth inning on a sacrifice fly by Josh Kalalau off Miles Verweel. The Birds left the bases loaded in the eighth, and sent out Shawn Hetherington in the ninth inning to preserve that one-run lead. Hetherington was met with a double and a single, and he walked the next batter on four pitches to load the bases with no outs. The next batter, pinch-hitter Mike Malland, got ahead in the count 2-1, hit four foul balls, then hit a line drive that was snagged by Hetherington. Hetherington threw to third base for the double play. He struck out the next batter to get the save. The Thunderbirds used six pitchers. Eric Brown pitched the first two innings, and struck out four of the seven batters he faced. Sheldon McDonald pitched a hitless third inning. Taylor King took over from Verweel in the sixth, and pitched the seventh and eighth innings, allowed one hit, struck out two. McDonald got the win.
Lendvoy finished 2-4. The other Thunderbird hits belonged to White and C Greg Densem.
This game was taken seriously by the Redhawks. Starter Arlo Evasick, who was expected to do great things for the Redhawks, went 7 1/3 innings, and he was replaced by their best reliever, Max Whieldon. Both of them were sharp; Whieldon didn't allow a hit, and Evasick struck out five, allowed only one earned run. A humourous note: Seattle U.'s webcast guys noted that 3B Andrew Firth wears number 37, the same number that Redhawks Assistant Coach Fletcher Vynne wore when he was a UBC undergraduate. "What? They didn't retire his number?" The Thunderbirds defeated both Division I teams they played this season.
Box score and play-by-play
Story from Seattle U. site: Seattle University Baseball Held Off by UBC Thunderbirds, 2-1
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