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VANCOUVER, B.C. – Senior Caleb Virtue pitched the first complete game shut out of his career, as Corban's baseball team earned a double header split with British Columbia, 1-0 & 0-9, Sunday at Thunderbird Park.

Corban (25-19, 10-14 NAIA West) were led offensively by senior Derek Legg with a combined three hits, while three other Warriors – junior Peter Martin, junior Gregg Romero, and sophomore Jordan Johansen – tallied a combined two hits each on the afternoon. Senior Kyle Kunkel also drove in Corban's lone run on the afternoon in the opening inning of Game #1.

In the opener, Virtue would go the distance allowing just four hits to go along with a game-high three strikeouts en route to picking up his fourth win of the season. Game #2 would see freshman Daniel Gober get the start, as he allowed four earned runs on four hits in 2.0 innings of work before turning the ball over to a pair of relievers – Johansen and freshman Ransom Storm – that combined to allow five runs (three earned) on eight hits ovefr the final 6.0 innings.

British Columbia (20-13, 14-6 NAIA West) was led offensively by six different players – Tyson Popoff, Sebastian Wong, Andrew Firth, Greg Densem, Kevin Biro, and Austin Fruson – with a combined two hits each. Wong and Biro would drive in two runs each for the host Thunderbirds.

Game #1 would see Jeremy Newton toe the rubber in the first 6.2 innings, as he allowed one unearned run on six hits before Alex Webb pitched the final 2.1 innings for the home team. The finale would see Bryan Pawlina pitch the opening 6.0 innings, as he allowed a mere three hits en route to remaining unbeaten this season at 7-0. Conor Lillis-White and Tavis Bruce would combine to pitch the final 3.0 innings, as the relief duo allowed just one hit.

GAME #1 — CORBAN 1, BRITISH COLUMBIA 0

Sunday's opener would be a pitcher's dual throughout, as Corban scored in the opening inning thanks to a bases loaded infield single by Kunkel that scored sophomore pinch-runner Jake Kunkel after he replaced junior William Koenig who was hit by a pitch three batters earlier.

The Warriors would take advantage of the game's lone run, as Corban held a 1-0 lead after its first at-bat and overcame a scoring threat by UBC in the bottom of the fourth inning when a fly ball would have tied the game except the Thunderbird runner left early attempting to tag up from ninety feet away.

After that scoring threat was thwarted, Corban would not allow another UBC runner past second base en route to picking up the hard-fought one-run victory (1-0).

Legg and Romero led Corban's offense with a pair of two-hit performances, while the elder Kunkel was the offensive hero driving in the game's only run.

British Columbia would get hits from four different players with James Stewart turning in a 1-for-2 showing offensively.

GAME #2 — BRITISH COLUMBIA 9, CORBAN 0

The weekend finale would belong to British Columbia from the beginning, as Popoff was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the second inning that scored Biro with the eventual game-winning run.

UBC would add three more runs in the second inning before putting runs on the board in the third and seventh innings, as Corban threatened to score in the second and sixth innings putting a runner at third with two outs both times.

Four different Warriors registered a hit, as Martin, Johansen, Legg, and junior Nate Williams tallied the base knocks.

British Columbia would get two-hit performances from Wong, Biro, and Fruson, as Wong and Biro tallied a pair of two-RBI showings for the T-Birds.

Corban will return to action on Wednesday, April 17th, against cross town rival and NCAA Division III member Willamette in a single nine-inning game beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer.