VANCOUVER, B.C.  –  Lewis-Clark State's potential tying run was thrown out at the plate to end the first game of a doubleheader against British Columbia, but the Warriors rebounded mightily  to win game two.  UBC won 7-6 in the opener, but LC rebounded for a 14-2 victory.  The four-game NAIA West series, revamped because of weather conditions, continues in Vancouver with a single game Saturday at 1 PM.  With the split, LC is now 25-6 overall, and 15-2 in the league.  UBC is now 20-17, and 14-8.
 
Down by four runs entering the ninth in the opener, The Warriors pulled to within one run.  Kasey Bailey led off with a double, and scored on Tyler McDowell's double.  McDowell then scored on a Thunderbird throwing error.  Pinch hitter Joey Parente's RBI single made it 7-6.  The Warriors then loaded the bases when pinch hitter Kyle Callahan was hit by a pitch.  With two outs, pinch runner Mason Verge tried to score on a pitch that got away from the UBC catcher, but was thrown out at the plate.
 
The Warriors had jumped to a 1-0 lead on Riley Way's second-inning sacrifice fly, but UBC responded with seven hits in the bottom of the inning, and leaped out to a 5-1 lead.  Both teams then went scoreless until the seventh inning.
 
Way led off the seventh inning with a single, and scored on Cory Voss' single.  Darren Trainor's RBI double then narrowed the lead to 5-3.  But, UBC answered again in the bottom of the inning on Austen Butler's two-run home run, to give UBC a 7-3 lead, which they held until the ninth.
 
LC starting pitcher Kade Woods (1-1) took the loss.  Woods went four innings and gave up 10 hits and five runs.  Matt Becker threw the final four innings, allowing five hits and two runs.  Bailey, McDowell and Way each collected two hits, but UBC outhit LC 15-10. The loss ended the Warrior's 12-game winning streak, and stretched UBC's winning streak to ten. 
 
But the Thunderbird streak came to an end abruptly in game two as the Warrior bats came alive for 14 runs on 15 hits.  LC starting pitcher Tyler Burch allowed just one run, unearned, and four hits in five innings to earn his sixth win of the season against one loss.  Relievers Lalo Porras and Tyler Charlo each threw two innings, and combined to allow just five Thunderbird hits and one run.
 
LC again jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Cory Voss' seventh home run of the year.  A.J. Davis and Makana Victorine's RBI sacrifice flies, along  with Matt Thompson's RBI single gave LC a 4-1 lead after five innings.
 
The Warriors then exploded for seven runs in the sixth inning, to put the game out of reach.  Victorine and Riley Way each knocked in two runs in the inning, as LC collected six hits.  The Warriors added three more insurance runs in the ninth.  Matt Thompson's two-run double finished off the scoring for LC.
 
Thompson led the Warriors with three hits, and along with Victorine, had three RBI.