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Baseball roughed up by Royals in season debut

The Eagles show some early season rust in blowout loss to Hope International.
Baseball roughed up by Royals in season debut

After their prior game against Cal State Los Angeles was rained out on Monday, Biola baseball got their season started at home against Hope International University on Wednesday. Justin Duarte’s first game as the Eagles’ interim head coach did not go as planned, as the Eagles were beat badly in an 11-0 defeat at the hands of the Royals.

NEW ERA

Senior left-handed pitcher Troy Stainbrook got the start on the mound for the Eagles. He survived a scare in the first inning, but ran into trouble in the second. Hope’s leadoff batter in that inning jacked a home run to put the royals up 1-0, and the next batter singled and stole second, third, and then scored on a fielder’s choice to give them a 2-0 lead heading to the bottom half of the inning.

The only sign of offensive life the Eagles showed all game was in the bottom of the second, when sophomore shortstop Connor Kostecka lined a single to center field to advance the previous batter who walked to second base. However, two flyouts and a ground out ended the inning.

Junior Kenny Carillo replaced Stainbrook to start the third inning, and he did not fare much better. The second batter he faced went deep for another Royals homer, as they took the lead 3-0. Biola’s offense, meanwhile, could not muster any hits through the rest of the innings.

ROUGH START

Highly touted freshman pitcher Larson Kindreich got his first college action in the fifth inning to replace Carillo. Kindreich struggled through a brutal sixth inning in which he gave up five runs before being pulled. Freshman pitcher Brayden Englert came in and got his first taste of college action as well. He also did not fare well, allowing two runs before the inning ended at 11-0.

Neither team scored the rest of the game as the Royals finished off the 11-0 victory.

Despite the outcome, the Eagles were glad to finally be in action and get some game time experience under their belt.  

“It felt good, we were all pretty bummed out that our first game got cancelled twice two days in a row, and we came out excited,” said senior outfielder Jerron Largusa.

LIVE AND LEARN

New head coach Justin Duarte was pleased with his teams’ preparation and hopes they can build from this tough start.

“I think our work and our process has been pretty good, and we gotta learn from this loss,” Duarte said.

The Eagles will look to pick up their first win of the season at Vanguard University at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Joel Ashor is a junior broadcast journalism major with a love for sports, friends, and history. Joel is a Notre Dame football, Angels baseball, and Boston Celtics fan. [email protected] Growing up in the small city of Santa Maria, California as the youngest of four boys, I was always surrounded by things much earlier than normal, due to the fact that I experienced things through my much older brothers. One of the things I experienced was sports, and when I started watching and seeing what it looked like to be on a sports team, I fell in love. In my family, sports is not really an option, it just is something that we all do. Luckily my parents never had to force me or my brothers to play sports because we all had a passion for it. From a young age I immersed myself in the culture of sports, watching any sport that was on, growing a particular liking to college football. My uncle attended the University of Notre Dame, and my whole family are die-hard Irish fans. Naturally I became one as well, and I remember Saturday mornings with the family quite clearly. As I grew older I began to see and understand more about what it took to broadcast a live sports game, and I became quite intrigued by it. I decided I wanted to be involved with sports for the rest of my life and cover it in some form. One of the sports commentators I look up to greatly and have always liked is NBC sports reporter Bob Costas, who is a jack of all trades broadcaster and covers all sports from the Olympics to football and many more. I aspire to be a broadcast journalist someday, and the Chimes is an excellent way to hone my skills and continue to practice writing and talking about sports. I look forward to my growth while working with the Chimes in reporting accurately and quickly, and cannot wait to cover Biola sports.
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