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Box Score 2 ORANGE, Calif. –The offense broke out as the Chapman University baseball team swept a doubleheader from visiting Willamette, 6-1 and 11-3. Tate Zimmerman hit two home runs in the second game.
Game 1 – W, 6-1
The offense did all its damage in the fourth inning while Nick Molina and Owen Rolling dominated on the mound to get the game one win. Chapman rallied for six runs in the fourth inning on six hits and four Bearcat errors, sending 10 batters to the plate.
Zimmerman opened the scoring with his first of five RBIs in the doubleheader. He roped a single into center to score Joey Capobianco. The Panthers continued to rally, aided by Willamette's four errors to break open the previous scoreless game.
Molina did his part on the mound with six scoreless innings. He struck out six, walked three and scattered four hits to keep the Bearcats off the board. He earned his third win of the season in the scoreless start wile Owen Rolling took over on the mound for the last three innings to earn the nine-out save. The pair combined to strand 12 Willamette baserunners.
Four Panthers had multi-hit games to lead the offensive onslaught, including Keegan Goddard and Brady Altman. Both also had RBI-singles. Andrew Powers' doubles was the only one of Chapman's 11 hits to go for extra bases.
Game 2 – W, 11-3
The bats went to work right away with seven runs in the first three innings to open up the big lead early on. Zimmerman went the opposite way with a two-run homer to left center to cap a three-run first. Goddard hit a two-run homer in the second and Zimmerman went deep again with a solo homer in the third. He knocked in a fourth RBI for the game with a run-scoring single in the sixth.
Zimmerman, Capobianco, Goddard and Brady Altman all had three-hit games as the top five in the lineup combined to go 13-for-24 with nine RBIs and eight runs scored. Briggs Ellis provided a boost at the bottom of the lineup, going 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Blake Jacobs hit Chapman's fourth home run of the game with a solo homer to left in the eighth.
Willamette managed just four hits against four Chapman pitchers but also drew six walks. Chapman's pitching staff combined for 11 strikeouts in the game, led by six from starter Luke Bradley. Graham Stogner closed out the game with a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out all three batters he faced. Three Chapman reliever did not allow a hit over the final three innings.
The Panthers and Bearcats meet again on Sunday to close out the three-game series at 11 a.m.
