Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

ELLENSBURG (Apr. 13) -- Junior KYLE SANI (Kennewick/Southridge HS) drove in five runs and collected three hits, including his fourth home run of the season in game one of the Central Washington University baseball team's doubleheader with Corban University on Friday afternoon, but the Wildcats managed just a split with the Warriors, winning the opener 6-4 before falling 10-8 in eight innings in the nightcap.

CWU, which has now split four of its last five doubleheaders, is now 13-19 overall. Corban, from Salem, Ore., and a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, is 22-15 on the year.

Sani was just 1 for 4 in the opener, but that one hit was a three-run home run that gave the Wildcats a 6-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Wildcats scored their first three runs of game one in the first two innings as senior BRANDON WANG (Mill Creek/Jackson HS) had two run-scoring hits: a triple in the first inning and a single in the second.

Senior left-handed pitcher BRANDON ROHDE (Gig Harbor) started on the mound for Central Washington and picked up his fourth win of the season (4-2). In his first pitching start since Mar. 24, he threw five innings allowing just two runs on four hits while striking out three batters. Junior left-hander DREW DAVIDSON (Long Beach, Calif./Long Beach Poly HS) picked up his second save of the season, retiring both batters he faced after inheriting two runners in scoring position -- including the potential game-tying run -- with one out in the top of the ninth.

Seniors Wang, BRETT BIELEC (Port Orchard/North Mason HS), DERRICK WEBB (Ephrata), and DAVID LEID (Carson City, Nev./Carson HS) each had two hits in game one.

In game two, which was scheduled for seven innings, Corban scored two runs in the top of the eighth to upend the Wildcats, 10-8. CWU never led in game two, but tied the game on three separate occasions. After matching the Warriors with two first-inning runs, the Wildcats rallied from a 5-2 deficit with three runs in the third inning. In the third, Sani, Reser, and junior JIMMY RYERSON (Seattle/Roosevelt HS) had RBI singles. CWU again tied the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, as Reser had a RBI groundout to knot the score at 8-8.

Corban won the game in the eighth inning after consecutive two-out doubles by Colby Sokol and Cody Atkinson and a RBI single by Steven Blum. Those hits snapped a run of three perfect innings from Davidson, who had entered with two out in the fifth and had retired the first nine hitters he faced. Davidson suffered the loss after CWU failed to extend the game in the bottom of the eighth.

Webb was 1 for 3 in game two and scored three times in the contest, and has now hit safely in 14 of his last 15 games. CWU junior CHRIS HASHIMOTO (Kirkland/Lake Washington) returned to action after being injured in last weekend's series versus Northwest Nazarene University and went 3 for 4 on the day, driving in one run and scoring a run as well.

The Warriors narrowly outhit the Wildcats 23-21 in the doubleheader, with more than one-fourth of their hits coming from Sokol, who finished 6 for 10 with four RBI. He was 4 for 5 with three doubles and a two-run home run in game two.

The two teams will play another doubleheader on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The games will mark the final non-conference games of the season for the Wildcats, who will then return to Great Northwest Athletic Conference play next weekend at Saint Martin's University.