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WILSONVILLE, Ore. – Less than twenty-four hours ago, junior Jonathan Ramirez (New Britain, Conn.) was wearing high tops and suiting up for Corban's men's basketball team in the regular season finale.

On Saturday, the second-year Warrior was back in spikes with Corban's baseball team and hit his first home run of the season in a pinch-hitting role in the Warriors' loss to Pacific Lutheran, 11-3, in the Cascade-Northwest Challenge opener at Wilsonville High School.

Along with Ramirez's heroics, senior Steven Candelaria (Farmington, N.M.) went 3-for-5 at the plate to go along with a pair of perfect 1-for-1 pinch-hit at-bats by senior Tyler Lake (Medford, Ore.) and sophomore Kris Bos (Jerome, Idaho). On the hill, senior Nate Hiebert (Lebanon, Ore.) started the game going 4.0 innings allowing six runs (four earned) on seven hits before turning the ball over to a quartet of relievers. The Warriors' bullpen, which consisted of senior Chris Trammell (Salem, Ore.), senior Kyle Lamson (Medford, Ore.), sophomore David Hull (Kelso, Wash.), and freshman Justin White (Pleasant Hill, Ore.) combined to allow five earned runs on five hits with a pair of strikeouts.

Pacific Lutheran would score 11 unanswered runs over the opening six innings before Corban's bats came alive over the game's final three.

In the top of the seventh, freshman Sage Poland (Spokane, Wash.) registered a one-out single up the middle before coming home when Ramirez took the fourth pitch that he saw and deposited it over the right field fence for his second career home run as a Warrior making the score 11-2 in favor of PLU.

Corban would put another run on the board in the top of the eighth inning to cap the game's scoring, as sophomore Matt Hamlin (Hamilton, Mt.) roped a triple to right center to bring home Lake following his lead off single for the final score of 11-3.

PLU was led offensively by Ryan Frost, who went 3-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and six RBI that included a grand slam during the Lutes' five-run fifth inning. Jaron Iwakami also registered three hits for Pacific Lutheran, while Brock Gates and Ryan Aratani recorded two hits each in the victory. Pitching-wise, Max Beatty earned the win going a scoreless 6.0 innings with four hits and a game-high six K's. Beatty would turn the ball over to the Lutes' bullpen that consisted of Kipp Godfrey, Nathan Shoup, and Nic Delikat for the final three innings, as PLU's trio of relievers allowed a combined three earned runs on five hits with five strikeouts.

With today's result, Corban falls to 0-5 on the season and Pacific Lutheran improves to 2-4. The Warriors will continue play later today – Saturday, February 19th – at the Cascade-Northwest Challenge against George Fox beginning at 4:00 p.m. on the turf fields at Wilsonville High School.