BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 LEWISTON, Idaho – Lewis-Clark State showed why it is ranked No. 2 in NAIA baseball by sweeping 5-2 and 12-4 victories from the visiting Corban Warriors in NAIA West action at Harris Field.

The LCSC Warriors improved their overall record to 35-6 and ran away with the league title, finishing 24-4. Corban, 27-22 overall, finishes its NAIA West schedule with a 16-12 record and will end up either third or fourth, depending on the outcome the Menlo at College of Idaho series currently underway.

Either way, Corban is assured of a berth in the NAIA West tournament slated for March 2-5 and hosted by the University of British Columbia.

First, however, Corban will play a three-game non-league series against George Fox. The Bruins will host a nine-inning game starting at 4 p.m. Thursday, and then it's the Warriors' turn as George Fox comes to Salem for a Saturday doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

LEWIS-CLARK STATE 5, CORBAN 2

Cody Lavalli hit a pair of solo home runs and had three of LCSC's seven hits in the game.

The host Warriors scored a run in the first inning on two singles and a wild pitch and made the score 2-0 in the fourth on Lavalli's first homer of the game.

Corban scored its only runs in the top of the fifth inning when Vince Gonzalez, Jackson Smith and Landon Frost reached base on singles and Gregg Romero hit a two-run single to center field.

Only one other time did Corban get a runner as far as second base as a trio of LCSC pitchers limited the visitors to eight hits with no walks. Beau Kerns went the final four innings and picked up the save to improve his record to 5-0.

Marc Gallegos and Gonzalez both had two hits to lead Corban's offense.

With the score tied at 2-2 in the seventh inning, Lewis-Clark State pushed across three runs. Lavalli broke the tie with a solo home run, and after Corban pitcher Tony Davidson hit two batters, Zach Holley hit a two-run triple to right field.

Davidson ended up going all eight innings for Corban, allowing five runs on seven hits with no walks and two strikeouts. He took the loss and is now 3-2 for the season.

LEWIS-CLARK STATE 12, CORBAN 4

The hosts made the most of their 11 hits, six Corban errors and five walks issued by Corban pitchers.

Lewis-Clark State scored twice in the second, fourth and fifth innings before Corban got on the board on Daniel Orr's leadoff homer in the top of the sixth. The home run was the third of the season for Orr, who with that swing surpassed the program's single-season record for total bases. Orr, a junior first baseman, finished the game with three hits and now has 113 total bases for the season, breaking the old mark of 107 set by Todd Smasal in 1999.

In addition to the total bases record, Orr is on the verge of establishing new single-season standards for hits, runs batted in, doubles and triples.

LCSC put to bed any hopes of a Corban comeback with four runs in the sixth inning, and it added two more in the eighth for good measure.

Corban scored twice in the seventh on Orr's RBI single and a wild pitch, and got its final run in the top of the ninth on a bases-loaded fielder's choice by Vince Gonzalez.

Orr was 3-for-5 and Ryan Rosas 2-for-5 to lead Corban's 10-hit attack. Ryan Sells had a two-run homer among his two hits and Tariq Staton was 3-for-4 as part of LCSC's 11-hit offense.

Corban starter Rilyn Lewchuk allowed six runs, four earned, on five hits in five innings and took the loss. His record this season is 3-6. Eli Driessen, Daniel Gober and Austin Reames all saw action in relief.

LCSC's Cody Chartrand allowed one earned run and five hits in six innings to improve his pitching record to 5-0.