Bruins Climb Into Tie for First in NWC With Win Over Missionaries

Bruin righthander Preston Langeliers (3-0) worked the first five innings to pick up the win.

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NEWBERG - Switching-hitting catcher Ryan Fobert went 3-for-4 with four RBI and five George Fox University pitchers combined on a five-hitter, leading the Bruins to a 14-1 win over the Whitman College Missionaries for a three-game series sweep and into a first-place tie in the Northwest Conference baseball race Monday afternoon here at Morse Field.

George Fox is now 12-0 overall, extending the best start in team history, and 6-0 in the conference, tied with the University of Puget Sound as the only two teams without a league loss.

Whitman fell to 0-12 overall and 0-6 in the conference.

Bruin righthander Preston Langeliers (3-0) worked the first five innings to pick up the win, allowing two hits while fanning three and walking four.

Brady Rhodes, Shane Dalgleish, Drew Johnson, and Josh Burch followed with an inning of work apiece.

Bruin pitchers had shut out Whitman twice Sunday and were going for a school-record third straight shutout, but the Missionaries halted the staff’s string of consecutive scoreless innings at 30 2/3 when Mike Rathwell singled in Thomas Kost with an unearned run with two outs in the 9th.

The Bruins’ team ERA, however, still dropped to 1.80 for the season.

The Bruins took a 3-0 lead in the 2nd against Whitman righty Joe Rodhouse (0-4) as Fobert singled up the middle to drive in Dan Wentzell and Daniel Downs with the first two runs, and Pat Bailey got a checked-swing single to right to score Matt Wyckoff.

Fobert doubled in Downs and Wyckoff in the 3rd and then scored himself on a single by Burch.

Batting right-handed against southpaw Calvin Davis in the 6th, he singled and scored the middle run of a three-run rally on a double by Bryan Donohue.

Bailey also had three hits, including a triple, in the Bruins’ 14-hit attack, scoring twice and driving in a pair.

Downs and Burch had two hits each, with Downs scoring two runs and Burch driving in two. Wyckoff scored three times.

George Fox plays again Wednesday, hosting Concordia University-Portland in a non-conference game at 3:00 PM.

Whitman returns home to host Willamette University in a three-game conference series, starting with a Saturday doubleheader at noon.

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