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Pepperdine University Athletics

Justin Lutes
Jeff Golden
Justin Lutes
4
Winner Pepperdine PEPP 9-10
3
Grand Canyon GCU 9-11-1
Winner
Pepperdine PEPP
9-10
4
Final
3
Grand Canyon GCU
9-11-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Pepperdine PEPP 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 2
Grand Canyon GCU 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4

W: Walker, Hayden (1-0) L: Schneider, Jack (0-1) S: Chandler, Cooper (2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Athletic Communications

Pepperdine Wins Close Game in Phoenix

PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Pepperdine baseball team finished off a rare Tuesday-Wednesday midweek series with a win, defeating Grand Canyon 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon.
 
The Waves (9-10) scored in three straight innings and held off the Lopes (9-11-1) for the rest of the game to come away with the series sweep.
 
BIG WAVES
  • Junior infielder Wyatt Young (Honolulu, Hawaii/Mid-Pacific Institute) went 3-for-5 on the day and scored a run. All three hits were singles.
  • Sophomore outfielder Grant Schoen (Clackamas, Ore./Clackamas HS) went 1-for-3 with a pinch-hit RBI double in the fourth.
  • Senior infielder Aharon Modlin (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge HS) had one hit and one RBI.
  • Freshman infielder John Peck (Moorpark, Calif./Moorpark HS) had an RBI double in the second inning.
  • Freshman LHP Hayden Walker (Corrales, N.M./St. Pius X HS) picked up his first collegiate victory, throwing 2.2 innings, giving up no runs on no hits and striking out two batters.
 
PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Lopes opened up the scoring in their half of the first inning on a two-RBI double to take a 2-0 lead through one full inning of play.
 
Pepperdine answered in the top of the second to get on the board. Aharon Modlin hit a double into the left center field gap and John Peck lined a ball into the left field corner, scoring Modlin for an RBI double. A slow groundball to short resulted in a throwing error, allowing Joe Caparis to reach, and Peck did not break stride as he was moving on contact, and came around to score, tying the game at two runs.
 
In the third, the Waves took advantage of a couple of mistakes by the Lopes. With two outs, Connor Bradshaw singled into right. He came all the way around to score on two throwing errors by GCU. Modlin hit a high chopper to third base, which was thrown away. Modlin took off for second, and another ball was thrown away, allowing Modlin to be safe and for Bradshaw to come around to score the go-ahead run and put the Waves up 3-2 through three innings.
 
In the fourth, Wyatt Young hit a single up the middle and was brought in by a Grant Schoen pinch hit double off the wall in right center, giving the Waves a 4-2 lead. The Lopes got a run of their own in the bottom of the fourth on a bases-loaded ground ball. A diving play from Modlin kept any more runs scoring, and the Waves led 4-3 through four.
 
The Lopes threatened in the eighth, getting runners to first and second, but Michael Mahony entered the game and came out with a clean inning. Cooper Chandler made his second appearance of the year in the ninth, giving up just a single hit en route to his second save of the year.  
 
UP NEXT
The Waves return home on the weekend for their second West Coast Conference series, hosting Saint Mary's. Game one is scheduled for Friday with a 3 p.m. first pitch.
 
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