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SALEM, Ore. – Junior Trevor Winsor (Troutdale, Ore.) pitched seven innings allowing two earned runs on six hits to go along with a game-high five strikeouts and sophomore Steven Blum (Salem, Ore.) belted his fourth home run of the season, as Corban's baseball team picked up a non-conference win over George Fox, 6-3, Wednesday afternoon at Warrior Field.

With today's win, Corban improves to 11-29 overall compared to George Fox's 20-11 record this season.

Blum led the Warriors' offensive attack with a 3-for-4 performance that included one run scored and one RBI, while juniors Tyler Lake (Medford, Ore.) and Steven Candelaria (Farmington, N.M.) each collected two hits on the afternoon. Four other Warriors – senior Josh Warner (Independence, Ore.), sophomore Jonathan Ramirez (New Britain, Conn.), freshman Jake Balbas (Meridian, Idaho), and freshman Craig Baker (Meridian, Idaho) – registered a hit each to go along with a pair of RBI by freshman Kyle Kunkel (Bremerton, Wash.) on a safety squeeze bunt in the sixth inning.

George Fox would score first in the opening inning on a two-run double down the right field line by Brent Trask that plated Michael Woo and Sam Stahl for an early 2-0 Bruin lead.

The host Warriors would get one run back in the bottom of the third inning when Ramirez roped a one-out single up the middle before moving to second on a bunt single by Lake that allowed both runners to advance another base on a Bruin throwing error. Baker would then ground out to the pitcher, as Ramirez came home after the Bruin pitcher made the throw to first to pull Corban within a single run (2-1).

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Corban would pull even with George Fox at 2-2 when Warner grounded out to first with runners on second and third allowing junior Luke Balbas (Boise, Idaho) to score after he was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning.

The bottom of the sixth inning would begin with back-to-back walks by  Winsor and Balbas before the Bruin coaching staff made a pitching change. Candelaria would waste no time in roughing up George Fox's fourth pitcher of the afternoon thanks to a run-scoring double down the right field line that brought Winsor home for the go-ahead run (3-2). Kunkel would then lay down a perfectly placed safety squeeze bunt that allowed Balbas to score the eventual game-winning run, while also plating Candelaria all the way from second to put the host Warriors up by three runs (5-2).

Corban would get its sixth and final run of the game in the bottom of the seventh inning when Blum led off with the game's lone home run that hugged the left field foul pole before coming down on the other side the left field wall for a 6-2 Warrior lead, as he would tie for the team-lead with four round-trippers.

George Fox would get one run back in the top of the eighth inning when Cody Curtin grounded out to third with the bases loaded allowing Josh Burch to score the game's final run, as Corban would settle for the three-run win (6-3).

After seven solid innings, Winsor would give way to freshman Jacob Kopra (Gresham, Ore.) for the final six outs as he allowed one earned run on two hits with one K. Winsor would pick up his first victory of the season thanks to the win over his former team, as he was an infielder for George Fox in 2007.

George Fox was led offensively by Stahl, who went 2-for-4 with one run scored, while five Bruin pitchers would combined to allow six earned runs on 11 hits with a combined six strikeouts. GFU's Andrew Snyder would suffer the loss despite facing only two batters in the sixth, as he walked both Warrior hitters on nine pitches before both runners came around to score.

Corban will return to the diamond on Monday, April 19th, against the NAIA's No. 1-ranked Lewis-Clark State in a single nine-inning game beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Warrior Field.