CALDWELL, Idaho – The Bushnell University baseball team scored eight runs in the seventh and three in the ninth to pull off a huge comeback in Sunday's 13-11 victory before the College of Idaho took the series finale 10-8.

Head Coach Tommy Richards said, "Yesterday we were timid, frantic and in our own way. Today we decided to embrace the thrill of competition and left it out on the field. We had a hard time all weekend of taming their offense, but I can live with the mentality we played with today."
 
Bushnell (22-22, 10-10 CCC) will enter the final weekend of the regular season in a tight battle for a spot in the conference tournament. Oregon Tech is the only team who has team has clinched a playoff berth. British Columbia (13-7), Lewis-Clark State (11-9), College of Idaho (11-9), Bushnell (10-10) and Corban (9-11) will fight for the three remaining spots.

After being held to just 10 hits on Saturday, the Beacons more than tripled that mark, recording 33 on Sunday and cut their strikeouts in half.  
 
Jeff Fripp finished the day with eight RBI on seven hits with three home runs, including two in one inning. Reece Carganilla had an eight-hit day, batting 4-for-6 in both games, and Cayden Delozier tallied seven hits on the day.
 
Game 1: Bushnell 13, College of Idaho 11
 
The Yotes got out to a sizeable lead, recording nine runs on eight hits through the first two innings, but the Beacons responded with 10 unanswered runs on five homers, piling on eight of those runs in the top of the seventh. 
 
Cade Crist hit a two-run shot in the fourth before the Beacons rallied off four home runs in the seventh, two off the bat of Fripp.
 
Fripp got the inning started with a solo blast before Jordan Wilson and Delozier went back-to-back, all with no outs. Trailing 9-7, Fripp gave the Beacons the lead with his second homer of the inning, a three-run shot over the left field fence.  
 
C of I responded with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to go up 11-10. Kirby Robertson tied it up with a solo homer and Tristen Garland gave the Yotes the lead with a double.
 
Down to the final out, Carganilla knocked a two-run double down the right field line, scoring pinch runners Kai Keamo and CJ Smith for the 12-11 Beacon lead. Wilson singled home Carganilla to make it a two-run advantage for Bushnell heading into the bottom of the ninth.
 
Jack Horn closed out the ninth, allowing just one hit in his two innings of work. Horn held the Yotes hitless in the eighth before leaving a runner stranded in the ninth, forcing a pair of groundouts and striking out the final batter.
 
Carganilla and Delozier finished with four hits apiece, while Wilson and Fripp drove in four runs each. The Beacons finished with a season-high 18 hits and a school-record five home runs on the game.
 
Game 2: College of Idaho 10, Bushnell 8
 
The Yotes earned the series win, using a six-run bottom of the fourth to tie the game before taking the lead in the sixth. C of I tallied 16 hits on the game, while the Beacons recorded 15.
 
Bushnell took an early 4-0 lead, scoring one in the first on a double from Delozier and three in the second on a two-run double by Fripp and an RBI-single from Jacob Richardson. The Beacons extended the advantage to 7-1 in the top of the fourth on a solo homer by Fripp followed by a fielder's choice from Delozier and a Brandon Reed sacrifice fly.
 
C of I tied it up at 7-7 with a six-run bottom of the fourth. Five of the runs were unearned. The Yotes added two in the sixth and one in the seventh to go up 10-7.
 
The Beacons cut the deficit to two in the top of the ninth but were unable to secure the late comeback.
 
Carganilla posted his second straight four-hit game, while Fripp finished with four hits and four RBI. Delozier wrapped up a strong day with a 3-for-4, two-RBI, performance at the plate.
 
Up Next: Bushnell hosts Lewis-Clark State College on April 28-29 at the Hamlin Sports Complex in the final weekend of the regular season. The Warriors are just a game ahead of the Beacons in the conference standings.