Final Stats

LOS ANGELES "Junior Cory Wills of the Pepperdine baseball team had his first home run as a Wave, but the team fell 5-3 to LMU at Page Stadium on Saturday.

The Waves (10-12, 2-3 WCC) led by a run going to the bottom half of the seventh inning, but a bases-loaded double gave the Lions (11-11, 4-1) a lead they never relinquished.

BOX SCORE

BIG WAVES

• Junior outfielder Cory Wills (Henderson, Nev./Yavapai JC) went 1-for-3 with a home run, giving the Waves a one-run lead in the sixth.
• Junior RHP Christian Stoutland (Calabasas, Calif./Oaks Christian HS) started on the mound for the Waves, going 5.1 IP, giving up six hits and two runs (one earned). He also had three strikeouts.
• Junior outfielder Jordan Qsar (El Cajon, Calif./Valhalla HS) went 1-for-4 with a two-run single in the third, giving the Waves their first lead of the game.

PLAY-BY-PLAY

The Lions struck first in the second inning on a home run, giving them a 1-0 lead. The Waves responded in the top of the third when Jordan Qsar came up with the bases loaded. He promptly lined a ball up the middle for a two-run base hit, scoring Chase Lambert and Brandt Belk.

Christian Stoutland started on the mound for the Waves, going a strong 5.1 innings, including three strikeouts. He gave up two runs, the home run in the second, and an unearned run on an RBI single in the fourth after a throwing error moved runners to second and third.

Wills came up in the sixth inning and, on the first pitch he saw, hit a long fly ball over the right-field fence, breaking a 2-2 tie. The shot was his first in a Pepperdine uniform, after hitting six as a sophomore at Yavapai Junior College.

The Lions got to reliever Jeremy Farraye in the eighth, loading the bases with nobody out. Michael Mahony came into the game, and got back-to-back strikeouts before a bases-clearing double gave the Lions the game-sealing 5-3 lead.

UP NEXT

The rubber match between the Waves and Lions is Sunday, with first pitch scheduled at 1 p.m. The game can be seen live on theW.tv.

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