Westmont Baseball (23-16, 20-16 PacWest) couldn’t come up with the offense in Saturday’s doubleheader at Point Loma (35-8, 31-8) and dropped both games. Westmont fell 7-0 in game one and 9-1 in game two.
The Warriors tallied just three hits in the early game. Westmont’s best chance to score came in the fifth inning when Braydon Griffin and Isaac Veal provided back-to-back singles with one away. However, second base was as close as the Warriors would get to pushing across a run.
Hunter Hammond took the loss for the Warriors. Over six innings, he allowed seven runs (six earned) on seven hits. He did not surrender a walk. Gavin Vanderpool pitched two innings. He did not allow a run and gave up two hits. Vanderpool struck out two and walked one.
Westmont produced six hits in the second game. The only Warrior run of the day came in the sixth inning. With one away, Veal doubled down the left field line. Then with two outs, Jesse Di Maggio hit an RBI-single up the middle to bring Veal home.
Starter Matt Vazquez was assigned the loss after allowing three runs on four hits.
With six games remaining in PacWest play, Westmont finds itself in sixth place in the conference standings. Westmont is one game behind both Jessup (26-18, 22-16) and Fresno Pacific (20-14) and one and one-half games behind Hawai’i Pacific (23-18, 21-14) which is in third place.
Monday, the Warriors will play Hawai’i Pacific in a doubleheader at Vanguard, beginning at 11:00 a.m.