La Grande, Ore. - The College of Idaho baseball team started its final regular season weekend with a doubleheader sweep of Eastern Oregon, winning game one by a 7-5 margin and taking game two by a 16-3 margin in seven innings.
Game one saw
Skyler Sadora hit his team-leading 10th home run - a three-run shot - in the top of the ninth to lead the visitors to the come-from-behind win. Down 5-4 to start the inning, EOU reliever Jeter Larson came into face
Dillon Danner at the No. 9 spot and the top of the order of the Yotes. After a flhyout to start the inning, Tristan Garland walked and
Jonah Hultberg singled to right center to put runners on the corners for Sadora. The Lihue, Hawaii native brought jubilation to the C of I dugout with a three-run blast.
Sadora was one of five Yotes with two hits in the win.
Ben Gaff and
Kris Kirkpatrick drove in a pair in the win. Reliever
Nate Vidlak pitched the final two innings, in relief of starter, Nick Elason, for the win to raise his record to 2-3. Vidlak allowed three hits and a run in the win.
The momentum from game one carried over into game two as College of Idaho scored in six of the seven innings on its way to a 16-3 win over EOU. The Yotes plated three in the first and fourth innings, two each in the second and third and five in seventh for the win. College of Idaho pounded out 18 hits - three each from Sadora, Kris Kikrpatrick and
Jake Denison, plus two each from Alex McFarland and
Jordan Kelly. Kirkpatrick and Gaff each drove in four in the win.
The Yotes hit five home runs in the win - two from Kirkpatrick and Hultberg, Sadora and Gaff each had a roundtrippper. The solo home run by Hultberg in the fifth moved him to one hit away from the school record for hits - tying the all-time mark of 274 held by Greg Stalling (2003-06). The offensive onslaught gave ample support to
Kirby Robertson, who pitched a complete game and struck out four in the win.Â
The two teams will wrap up the series with a doubleheader on Saturday at 11 a.m. (PST)/noon (MT).
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