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First game (9 innings): Warriors starter Jacob Kopra held the Thunderbirds scoreless for seven innings, and he left the game with a 1-0 lead. The eighth inning started with a walk by LF Mike Elias, a double by CF Blake Carruthers, and a single by 2B Alex White that scored Elias and tied the game. The next batter, 1B Bob Foerster, hit a sacrifice fly that scored Carruthers and the winning run.

The Thunderbirds added two more runs in the eighth on an RBI double by 3B Keaton Briscoe. Carruthers hit a three-run home run in the ninth to complete the scoring.

Danny Britton-Foster got his third win of the season in relief. He pitched the last three innings, allowed two hits, struck out two. Brandon Kaye pitched the first six innings, allowed one run on seven hits, struck out four. Carruthers was 4-4, and Briscoe was 2-3 with two RBI.

SS Jonathan Ramirez went 3-4 for the Warriors. Tyler Doornink got the loss.

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Second game (7 innings): A game that was close all the way. No errors by either team, and the Warriors out-hit the Thunderbirds 10-9. The winning run was scored with two outs in the top of the seventh. SS Sammie Starr hit a double, and DH Nic Lendvoy hit a single to bring him in.

Sheldon McDonald started, went five innings, allowed one run on seven hits, struck out four. Taylor King took over with the Birds leading 3-1, and the Warriors tied it 3-3 on a two-RBI single by RF Nate Hiebert. The Warriors got the tying run as far as second with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but King finished the game with a strikeout and a fly out to get his second win of the season.

Lendvoy hit a two-run home run (his fifth of the season) in the first inning to give the Birds the early lead, and was 2-4 for the game. Starr was 2-4 with two doubles.

Hiebert finished the game 2-3. Warrior starter Craig Baker got the loss.

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Story from UBC Athletics site: Winning streak hits 13 after sweep of Corban

First game (nine innings): The Thunderbirds led by only 4-3 going into the ninth inning, but SS Sammie Starr hit a bases-loaded double to bat in three runs, and Starr came home on a single by DH Nic Lendvoy. Lendvoy scored the winning run in the sixth inning, on a single by CF Blake Carruthers.

Mark Hardy got his third win of the season, went seven innings, struck out five. Shawn Hetherington went the rest of the way, and retired all six batters he faced. Corban starter Trevor Winsor was one out short of a complete game.

Lendvoy was 3-5 for the game, with three RBI and a double. 3B Steven Candelaria was 2-4 for the Warriors.

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Second game: (seven innings): The Birds lead this one 9-0 after four innings. 3B Keaton Briscoe batted in five of the nine runs (3-4 with a home run), and Eric Brown allowed two runs on four hits in six innings.

However, the most remarkable achievement of this game was by Miles Verweel, who pitched the seventh inning, and struck out all four batters he faced. The third strike on the second batter he faced was dropped by C Steve Bone, and his throw to first was off target. Four strikeouts in an inning is a school record, and ties the NAIA record.

Jake Balbas got the loss for the Warriors.

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These two games were played at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer, the home field for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League. Saturday's double-header will also be played in this ball park.

Story from UBC Athletics site: T-Birds win tenth and eleventh in a row

Story from Corban site: Warriors Drop Pair Against No. 13-Ranked UBC

SS Sammie Starr was 3-5 with two RBI. Brandon Kaye started, went five innings, allowed one earned run on three hits, struck out six. The game was tied 2-2 after four innings, but the Thunderbirds pulled away in the sixth inning when 3B Keaton Briscoe drew a bases-loaded walk to score a run, and Starr hit a two-RBI single.

Danny Britton-Foster got the win in relief. He pitched 2 2/3 innings, allowed one run on three hits. Taylor King got his third save of the season.

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Story from UBC Athletics site: Fourth straight win for T-Birds in conference play

The Thunderbirds and Red Hawks played three seven-inning games because of the rainout of a double-header scheduled for the previous day.

First game: Mark Hardy and Taylor King combined for the shutout; Hardy struck out seven during six innings. IB Bob Foerster singled in the winning run in the second inning; Foerster was the only Thunderbird with two hits. SS Sammie Starr had two stolen bases.

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Second game: Eric Brown started, went five innings, allowed one run on five hits, struck out four, got the win. The Birds trailed 1-0 after five innings. In the top of the sixth, DH Nic Lendvoy hit an RBI single to tie it, then 2B Alex White stole third and scored the winning run on a throwing error. LF Mike Elias singled in Lendvoy for the insurance run.

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Third game: Grand slam home run by 2B Andrew Firth,  three run home run by 3B Keaton Briscoe. Sheldon McDonald got the win, went four innings, allowed both Red Hawk runs.

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Story from UBC Athletics site: Three wins on busy Saturday for T-Birds

A home run by DH Nic Lendvoy won it for the Thunderbirds in the top of the tenth inning.

The Birds took a 6-4 lead in the fifth on a home run by 3B Keaton Briscoe (his first as a Thunderbird) and SS Sammie Starr scoring when LF Mike Elias reached on a fielder's choice. After that, the Birds were shut down for three innings by reliever Mike Rueda. The Poets tied it 6-6 on a two-run home run by LF Darby Weppner, off Cody Chartrand. The home run was followed by a triple by 1B Austin Straus. Shawn Hetherington came in to relieve Chartrand, and got two clutch strikeouts to strand Straus, and keep the game tied. Hetherington struck out two more batters in the eighth inning, and Taylor King pitched the final two innings, allowed one hit, struck out three.

Starr finished the game 3-4 with a two-run home run and two RBI, and Briscoe went 3-6 with three RBI. King got his first win of the season.

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Story from UBC Athletics site: Extra inning win ends UBC's pre-season on high note

This game was close for four innings, but the Thunderbirds put it away with five runs in the fifth inning, then added ten more runs in the sixth. The Bulldogs had used all their starters in a three-game series over the weekend.

Every Thunderbird who played got a hit except CF Christian Jolley, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the top of the ninth, and 2B Alex White, who still reached base on errors twice, and got an RBI. CF Blake Carruthers had the biggest day; he was 3-4 before being replaced by Jolley, hit a three-run home run, a double, had four RBI, a stolen base, and drew two walks.

Starter Danny Britton-Foster got the win. He allowed seven hits in five innings, but struck out seven. Mark Hardy was very sharp in pitching two relief innings; he retired all six batters he faced, and struck out three of them. Miles Verweel went the rest of the way, allowed a run on two hits, but struck out four.

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Story from UBC Athletics site: T-Birds improve to 5-1 on the season

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