PARKLAND - Scott Wall notched his second consecutive complete game victory over a Northwest Conference opponent on Sunday as Pacific Lutheran rolled to a 6-1 victory over the visiting Pacific Boxers at the PLU baseball field.

Wall, a senior from Yakima, improved his season record to 3-0 by limiting the hot-hitting Boxers to just five hits while striking out 11 and walking just one. The lone run came in the eighth inning following a wind-blown leadoff double.

Pacific Lutheran (7-9 overall, 3-3 conference) gave Wall all of the support he would need by scoring four runs in the first inning off of Pacific starting pitcher Chad Fahey. With one out, Jacob Hoffman hit a double, followed by walks to Corey Moore and Brock Gates. Ryan Aratani stroked a two-run single to center, followed by back-to-back run-scoring singles by Ryan Frost and Zack Halverson.

After that, Fahey settled down until the Lutes finally drove him from the mound in the fifth inning. With two outs and Gates and Frost on base following hits, Dan Johansen made it 5-0 with a single through the left side of the infield. Fahey came out of the game at that point, allowing five earned runs on 10 hits while walking four and striking out one.

Facing reliever Mike McGuire in the sixth, the Lutes added their final run when Jaron Iwakami walked, stole second, went to third on Hoffman's deep fly to center, and then scored on Moore's sacrifice fly.

Pacific (12-7, 8-4) scored its only run in the eighth inning when Trax French hit a long fly to right field. Iwakami seemed to have a play on the ball, but the wind carried it over his head for a double. After a pinch hit single by Logan Moen, pinch hitter Nick Tasaka drove in French with a sacrifice fly.

PLU finished with 11 hits, including three by Frost and two each by Hoffman, Gates and Johansen. No Boxers batter had more than one hit against Wall.

The Lutes return to conference action next weekend when they travel to Salem, Ore., to face the Willamette Bearcats in a three-game series.

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