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KEIZER, Ore. – Senior Trevor Winsor (Troutdale, Ore.) went a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate and fellow senior Tyler Lake (Medford, Ore.) made program history playing all nine positions to go along with his second home run of the season, as Corban's baseball team dropped an extra-inning heart-breaker to rival Willamette, 8-7 in 10 innings, Tuesday at Volcanoes Stadium.

Winsor would register five singles in five at-bats in his final home game as a Warrior, while Lake began his game-long journey on the mound for Corban before proceeding around the diamond from position-to-position in numerical order before ending in right field. The senior utility player from Southern Oregon accomplished a baseball rarity that has only been completed four times at the Major League level by former players Bert Campaneris (Kansas City Royals, 1965), Cesar Tovar (Minnesota, 1968), Scott Sheldon (Texas, 2000), and Shane Halter (Detroit, 2000).

With today's result, Corban drops to 9-38 on the season and Willamette improves to 20-16-1 overall.

Willamette would score early in the top of the first inning when Tommy Kawamura drew one out walk before coming around to score following a stolen base on T.C. Lee's fly out to center field that was dropped by Corban's outfielder giving the visiting Bearcats a slim one-run lead (1-0).

In the top of the third inning, Lee extended Willamette's lead to three runs (3-0) via his 11th home run of the season over the left field fence. Lee would take the second pitch that he saw and launched it out of the park for a two-run blast that also plated Tyson Giza.

Corban would begin its comeback in the bottom of the third inning when Lake led off the inning with his second home run this year against Willamette via a solo blast. Senior Nate Hiebert (Lebanon, Ore.) would follow Lake's home run with a double to right field before coming around to score on junior Steven Blum's (Salem, Ore.) RBI double down the right field line that pulled the host Warriors within a single run (3-2).

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Corban knotted the game at 3-apiece when sophomore Alex Bost (San Jose, Calif.) lifted a sacrifice fly to center field that allowed Winsor to score following his lead off single.

For the third straight inning, Corban would put a run on the board with the Warriors plating two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on three hits that put the home team up by two runs (5-3). Junior Jonathan Ramirez (New Britain, Conn.) led off with a double down the left field line before advancing to third on senior Kyle Taylor's (Clackamas, Ore.) ground out. One batter later, sophomore Kyle Kunkel (Bremerton, Wash.) would bring Ramirez home on a single to right field before Winsor roped a single to center field advancing Kunkel to third. With senior pitcher Chris Trammell (Salem, Ore.) at the plate, Winsor and Kunkel executed a perfect double steal that plated Corban's fifth run of the afternoon.

Willamette would tie the game once again in the top of the seventh inning when Alex Lavery drew a bases loaded walk to bring home Giza following his one-out single to center field. Following a Corban pitching change, Brandon Chinn lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that allowed Lee to score to tie things at 5-5.

Corban put two more runs on the board in the bottom of the seventh inning when senior Aarason Perry (Susanville, Calif.) scored on a pass ball with the bases loaded and Winsor came home on a Bearcat error putting the Warriors up by two runs (7-5).

In the top of the ninth inning, Willamette pulled within a single run (7-6) on a Lee double to right field that brought home Giza before Chinn knotted the game at 7-all with a run-scoring single up the middle that scored Lee and extended the game into extra innings.

Willamette would earn its first extra-inning win of the season in the top of the 10th inning when Adam Reid led off with a double to right center before advancing to third on a sacrifice bunt by Doug Bloom. With one out, Kawamura lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that brought Reid home with the eventual game-winning run as Willamette grabbed a slim one-run lead (8-7).

Corban attempted to either tie or win the game in the bottom of the 10th inning, but none of the Warrior hitters could get the ball out of the infield with Kawamura registering all three outs from his second base position.

Hiebert, Ramirez, and Blum aided Winsor's perfect performance with two hits each, while five Corban pitchers – Lake, senior Kyle Lamson (Medford, Ore.), Trammell, freshman Justin White (Pleasant Hill, Ore.), and Hiebert – combined to allow eight runs (seven earned) on 12 hits with eight strikeouts.

Willamette was led offensively by Lee's 4-for-5 showing that included three runs scored and three RBI, while ten different Bearcats pitchers appeared with Parker Johnson going the longest with 2.1 innings of relief allowing a mere one hit en route to picking up his third win of the season.

Corban will return to the diamond on Friday, April 29th, against conference rival Concordia in an afternoon double header beginning at 1:00 p.m. at Joe Etzel Field on the campus of the University of Portland in the Rose City.