LINCOLN, Calif.  - Only in its fourth season as a program, the Jessup baseball team continues to make history with each game. Taking on the Oregon Tech Owls this Saturday and Sunday for a four-game matchup, the Warriors took the series 3-1 for the best start in program history, now 5-3 after a pair of series.

DAY 1
The Warriors split with the Owls on the opening day of the series, taking the first game 8-7 and coming up one-run short in a 9th inning comeback, losing 10-11 in game two.

Scoring half their runs in the first inning, Jessup pushed four across with a lead-off home run from Will Law, his first of two for the day, followed by a single from Andrew Shaps, Cal Koga and Joe Starick to go up 2-0 with two outs. Noah Shackles would bring in the final runs with a double up the middle as Jessup took the 4-0 lead through three innings.

The Owls would get on the board in the top of the fourth with a home run from dynamite hitter, Josh Kallstrom to bring in a pair of runs followed by a hit to bring in another run (4-3). Kallstrom did it again in the top of the next frame sending it over the wall for his second two-run homer, as the Owls would take the 5-4 lead.

Late innings brought success for Jessup as Koga found the back wall in the seventh inning to bring in two runs to tie it up 6-6 and Steve Pastora would add his name to list of bombs sending it over the right-field fence to take that lead.

The Owls would get one more in the bottom of the ninth, but the Warriors prevailed with the one-run advantage, 8-7. Tyler Fujimoto (1-0) would collect the win for the Warriors pitching the final two innings behind starter Tristan Prybylinski (4.2), Danny Vietti (1.1) and Cameron Morrow (1).

It was another late run for Jessup in game two as they found themselves down 7-2 in the bottom of the fourth, but the bats came alive as the Warriors battled late.

Law would mark another one down in the home run column in the bottom of the fifth, followed by back-to-back bombs from Josh Duitsman and Pastora's second one of the day as the Warriors now trailed 5-9 headed to the seventh.

The Owls would go up 11-5 before Pastora and Joe Starick both doubled in the eighth to bring in a pair of runs to make it 11-7 and the last chance inning coming up.

Bottom of the ninth, two runners on and Austen Swift found his stroke with a three-run homer as Jessup trailed by one with one out. The Warriors would load the bases but left them stranded in the 11-10 loss. Josh Hook (0-1) started for the Warriors and took his first loss with appearances on the bump from Grant Doi (.1), Cameron Morrow (1.1), Justin Vlotho (2.1), Jake Thompson (.2) and Dakota Spillers (1).


DAY 2
Looking to continue on the last inning surge, the Warriors came out strong to sweep the Owls in the final two games of the four-game series taking down Oregon Tech in both games 4-3.

The Owls would light up the board first in the opening frame off starting pitcher for the Warriors Hayden Piner, but it wouldn't take long for the home team to answer back as Andrew Shaps brought in Law who walked and Koga got a base hit through the infield to bring in Swift for the 2-1 advantage. Duitsman would push the final run of the inning across with a single through the right side to score Shaps, 3-1.

The third inning would decide the fate for both teams as the Owls tied it up in the top of the frame, and the Warriors would take the final lead in the bottom with a solo home run for Duitsman, his second of the series.

The final four innings would go silent. Collecting the win for the Warriors was the reliever in the third inning, Sam Curtis and Fujimoto with his second save for the season.

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Following a solid game one start, the Warriors kept it going with a three-run inning to kick things off in the first frame. Law and Swift would show patience at the plate taking the walks and advancing to score off singles by Koga and Starick for the 3-0 lead.

The Owls would light up the board in the fourth, followed by the Warrior's Swift bringing in Shackles for their final run of the game (4-1). A two-run homer would be the last runs to cross home plate for the series, one-run shy for the Owls to tie it up.

Starting pitcher for Jessup, junior Ashkhon Kuhaulua pitched the complete game and would close out the series turning a double play to nab his second win of the season in two starts.  
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