Chris Foreman scored three of Biola’s four runs and starting pitcher Bobby O’Neill made sure that would be enough as the Eagles picked up a 4-3 GSAC victory over California Baptist University on Thursday afternoon.

Biola improved to 9-10 with the victory, its seventh in the last nine games, and move up to 4-4 in GSAC play. The Lancers drop to 13-8 and 5-6 in the conference, suffering their second-straight one-run loss at the hands of the Eagles.

The game was tight the whole way through and was tied going into the seventh inning until Foreman, who was on second base after slapping a single earlier in the inning, broke for third while Cal Baptist reliever Sean Urena was still holding the ball on the mound. The pitcher stepped off and had Foreman in a pickle between second and third only to see the third baseman botch the throw which allowed Foreman to round third and score. It was the second unearned run of the day given up by Cal Baptist and that proved to make the difference.

The Biola relief pitchers took it from there as senior Charlie Gausepol pitched a scoreless two innings, allowing just one hit and recording a big strikeout. Junior Billy Vopinek then closed out the game with a solid ninth to earn his third save of the year. O’Neill picked up the victory with six strong innings, scattering seven hits and allowing three runs while striking out five. He improves to 3-1 on the season.