Baseball roughed up again by Hope International

Eagles lose by 11 runs to Royals for the second time this season.

Joel Ashor, Sports Editor • February 20, 2019

Freshman catcher Caleb Watson (left) greets freshman catcher Andrew Buglino (left) during the Eagles’ 14-3 loss to Hope International University on Feb. 19.

Photo courtesy of Courtesy of Biola Athletics

Baseball traveled to Hope International University on Tuesday hoping for a better result than their 11-0 drubbing at the hands of the Royals in their first game of the season. However, the narrative remained much the same as HIU won by 11 runs yet again in a 14-3 victory over the Eagles.

Biola got on the board in the first inning when senior left fielder Jerron Largusa’s sacrifice fly scored sophomore shortstop Connor Kostecka. The Royals responded in the third with a grand slam that started the avalanche of runs against the Eagles. Another run came home in the inning to make it 5-1, HIU.

Senior second baseman Joey Magro pulled his team closer with an RBI single to score junior designated hitter Andy Van Antwerp. Kostecka followed that up with another single to score right fielder Miguel Abascal, closing the gap to 5-3.

That would be the closest the Eagles would get, though, as the Royals’ offense exploded in the sixth and seventh innings. They posted three runs in the sixth and six in the seventh to crush Biola’s hopes of a comeback and came away with a 14-3 victory.

The Eagles (3-2) now head to Hawaii to take on Hawaii Pacific University on Saturday at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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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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