Biola Sports Report 3-31-06

Let’s get right to the good stuff, Biola baseball’s first baseman, Nick Dietzen is GSAC player of the week as he went ten for twenty-one with five runs, four doubles, two home runs and eight RBI, Helping the eagles to win four out of five games last week.

Looking back this week, at a busy schedule for the baseball team taking two w’s away against rival Azusa Pacific on Monday. In Game one Jonathan Young started the game and went for five innings giving up only two runs on five hits. Travis Lange finished pitching duties allowing one run and striking out three. Final score was seven to three. In game two Biola was lead by catcher Eric Bowman and center fielder Chris Foreman. Both finished the game going two for three at the plate and scoring three of the five runs bringing the sweep to a close at five to one. On Wednesday the eagle’s earned a fifth straight victory at Cal Baptist. Star players were Jimmy Johnson, Jack Creighton and Mike Casserly. But On Thursday tables turned as the eagles played a tough game against the Lancer’s from Cal Baptist again. Biola jumped out to an early lead but a couple big hits had the lancers leading for the rest of the contest with a final score of three to seven.
The Eagles are currently twenty-one and six overall and second place in conference with fourteen and six. And the Eagles play a doubleheader on Saturday at home against Vanguard University starting at eleven.

On Tuesday the Biola softball team competed at Cal Baptist and endured a goose egg in both games. In game one the offense was able to scrape out only two hits as Lindsay Nuckolls and Amanda Rudolph both went one for three. In game two Emily Gray pitched 4.2 innings and allowed only five runs. Next The Lady Eagles play a doubleheader on Saturday at Vanguard University. Their current record is twenty-three and eight overall and five and seven in GSAC.

Back on the court, the tennis team plays at home today against Point Loma at 2:30 then travels to my hometown of Santa Barbra to play Westmont College on Saturday.

Last but not least, the track team sent one player to nationals this week. Kristi Hook finished fifth in the pole vault event with a mark of 3.65 meters.

That’s it for sports, have a great weekend!!