BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 PORTLAND – After managing just two runs in 27 innings against Concordia pitchers, Corban swung the bats with a vengeance on Monday night and earned a split of a NAIA West baseball doubleheader at Porter Park.

After the teams each took victory in a pair of 1-0 games played on Sunday, Concordia took a 9-1 victory in Monday's opener ahead of Corban's convincing 12-1, seven-inning thumping of the Cavaliers in the second game.

Following the four-game series split the Warriors are now 18-16 overall and 9-7 in the NAIA West. Concordia's overall record is 17-18 and it is also 9-7 in league play.

CONCORDIA 9, CORBAN 1

The Warriors led 1-0 through two innings, but the Cavaliers scored in each of their final six at bats to take the victory.

Corban got on the board in the second when Jordan Johansen led off with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Benjamin Liogon, and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Tyler Bennett. That was all the scoring the visitors could manage, however, as one runner was cut down at home in the fifth and two runners were left stranded in scoring position in the seventh.

Jon Yearout and Austin Hadley combined to limit the Warriors to just five hits, marking the third straight game in the series in which the Concordia pitching staff held the visitors to exactly that number of hits. Yearout improved his record to 4-2 by allowing just four hits while striking out five in seven innings. Hadley fanned three in his two innings of work.

Ben Talbot was the Concordia hitting standout with three hits and two runs batted in. No Corban batters had more than one hit.

CORBAN 12, CONCORDIA 1

The Warriors ended 27 innings of offensive frustration in impressive fashion. They collected 15 hits in a game that ended after seven innings via the NAIA's 10-run rule, which states that a game is called if a team leads by at least 10 runs after the losing team has batted in the seventh inning.

While the Corban offense was finding success, starting pitcher Tony Davidson was keeping the Cavaliers in check. The left-handed sophomore, making his fourth start of the season, improved his record to 2-1 with a complete-game effort. He allowed the one run on seven hits while walking two and striking out three.

Trailing 1-0, the Warriors gave Davidson all of the runs he would need with a six-run outburst in the second inning, and it was a trio of freshman occupying the bottom third of the order that got things started.

Ryan Rosas, Jackson Smith and Vince Gonzalez hit consecutive one-out singles to load the bases for Landon Frost, and the leadoff batter delivered a two-run double to left field. Jordan Johansen brought in the next run with a base hit, and following an intentional walk and strikeout, two throwing errors accounted for three more runs, all of which were unearned.

Frost started a two-run Corban fourth inning with a bunt single, and he eventually scored on a single by Scott Dreier. Later in the inning Davis Alderman drew a bases-loaded walk to make the score 8-1.

The Warriors added three runs in the fifth on a base hit by Gonzalez, a walk to Johansen, a two-run double by Orr and a RBI double by Marc Gallegos, and they made the score 12-1 on Dreier's RBI ground out in the seventh.

Davidson finished off the game by retiring the Cavaliers in order in the bottom of the seventh.

Every starter but one in the Corban lineup had at least one hit, and both Frost and Rosas ended up with three. Frost and Orr both finished with three runs scored and two runs batted in, while Johansen, Gallegos and Gonzalez all had a pair of hits.

"The bats came alive in game two in a big way and showed what this team has the potential to do," Corban head coach Jeff McKay said. "Three freshman and three sophomores played the whole game. A split in a key road conference series is not what we wanted but it keeps us in the conference race."

Corban is back at it again at 4 p.m. tomorrow when it plays at Willamette.