KEIZER, Ore. – On a cold and wet afternoon at Volcanoes Stadium, the bats of the Corban University baseball team never managed to heat up, falling in game three of the series with (RV) British Columbia by a final score of 2-0.

Barry Caine, who was making his first start of the season for the Thunderbirds, was absolutely dominant in the victory, throwing six and one-third shutout innings and holding the Warriors hitless until the seventh.  

"We didn't play our best baseball today," head coach Derek Legg said after the loss, "But overall, I thought it was a good weekend for us against a very good UBC team. We have a long week ahead of us, so we will look to grind it out and keep competing every chance we get."

Zackary Simon, who got the nod on the hill for the Warriors, was exceptional in his own right, striking out six and allowing just three hits in six and one-thirds of one-run ball.

The only run he allowed came in the fourth, when Noah Or—who had doubled to lead off the inning—came home to score on a fielder's choice. Brandon Hupe collected the RBI, dribbling a soft ground ball to third base with the infield drawn in. Corban third-baseman Maxwell Jeffrey attempted to throw Or out at the plate on a bang-bang play, but the Thunderbird rookie was able to slide in safely around the tag of Warrior backstop Brendan Yawn.

The only other scoring came in the ninth, when Liam Vulcano came up to the plate with the bases loaded and wore a 2-2 fastball from Jacob Bowser to earn an RBI the hard way.

Corban didn't register its first hit until the seventh, when Nate Cantonwine dropped a single into the right center gap. The Warriors would end up loading the bases with just one out in the frame, but Daniel Sereda would enter in relief and record a pair of crucial outs to stifle the rally.

Josh Ebert collected the Warriors' only other hit on the day, slapping a single into right field in the bottom of the eighth.

Due to inclement weather, the two teams were unable to play the originally-scheduled finale of the four-game set, meaning the series concludes with the Warriors claiming two of the three contests.

Legg and British Columbia head coach Chris Pritchett will look for potential opportunities to reschedule the season's eighth and final regular-season meeting of the two teams; but regardless, the Warriors finish the weekend with a pair of wins against a team that entered the series at the top of the NAIA-West standings.

With College of Idaho dropping its first two games this weekend against Lewis-Clark State College, Corban (14-24-1, 12-13 NAIA West) now vaults into third place in the NAIA-West standings. The two teams will square off in a huge conference series next weekend (April 19-20) down in Caldwell, Idaho, but not before the Navy and Gold travel to the northern part of the state for a doubleheader against LCSC on Wednesday.