Sagehens stay alive, win 16-4

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team bounced back from a disappointing loss Friday night and defeated SCIAC rival Cal Lutheran 16-4 in an elimination game at the Division III West Regional at Linfield College in Oregon.

Senior Zach Mandelblatt led the effort, pitching eight strong innings and giving upseven hits and four runs, three of those earned. He walked two and struck out four. Mandelblatt, playing just 45 minutes from his Lake Oswego home, also helped himself at the plate with three hits inluding a home run in teh eighth.

Drew Hedman slugged a grand slam in the Sagehens 10-run third inning.

It had to have been nice to eliminate the conference rival.

Now they have to regroup and get back on the field later tonight against Chapman, another foe with whom they are familiar. The Sagehens played Chapman three times this year, winning all of them. but all three of those games were close and sometimes odds catch up to you. So they will have to be on their game.

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