NEWBERG, Ore. –Tom Zarosinski outdueled reigning NCAA Division III National Pitcher of the Week Trevor Lubking on Sunday afternoon with a complete-game five-hitter, leading the George Fox Bruins past the Pacific Lutheran Lutes, 7-2, at Morse Field.

George Fox, ranked 17th in the D3baseball.com poll and 19th in the ABCA / Collegiate Baseball poll, improved to 24-9 overall and 17-4 in the conference, while Pacific Lutheran slipped to 18-13 overall and 8-10 in the league. The Bruins ended up winning the series, two games to one.

Zarosinski (3-4) was brilliant through the first six innings, retiring the Lutes in order in five of the six frames.  He gave up an opposite-field triple down the right-field line to Jacob Olsufka and a walk to Nicholas Hall in the third, but stranded both runners.  He allowed a  run in the seventh when he hit Olsufka with the bases loaded and another in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Cory Nelson, but worked a 1-2-3 eighth in between, finishing the game with eight strikeouts and only two walks.

The Bruins touched Lubking (7-2), the national leader with 76 strikeouts entering the game, for three runs in the first.  With Zach Miller on third and Danny Clifford on first after a hit-and-run single, Lubking appeared to be out of early trouble when Derek Dixon lofted a two-out high pop fly to right.  Right fielder Alec Beal could not find the ball in the overcast sky, however, and the ball bounced in front of him and off his leg for a two-run double.  After Timothy Williams was hit by a pitch, Zac Israel ripped a run-scoring single to center.

Jared Chase led off the Bruin second with a sharp one-hopper off Lubking's leg that knocked the pitcher down for an infield single. Though he tried to battle through it, the PLU southpaw eventually left the game after three innings with a hyper-extended knee.  Chase came around to score when Zeller was hit by a pitch, Miller sacrificed, and Josh Rapacz hit an RBI grounder to second.

The Bruins continued to add on with single runs in the third, fifth and seventh innings.  The Bruins finished with 13 hits, led by Chase's 3-for-3.  Zeller, Clifford, Dixon and Israel each had two hits, with Dixon collecting three RBIs and Clifford scoring three times.  Andrew Oord, who had seven hits in Saturday's doubleheader split, had two of the Lutes' five hits on Sunday, both of them doubles, and scored both PLU runs.

Lubking allowed seven hits and five runs, four earned, with two strikeouts in his three innings of work.  Chris Bishop threw the last five innings for PLU, surrendering six hits and two runs, one earned, with three strikeouts and three walks.

(Courtesy of George Fox Sports Information Office.)