WALLA WALLA, Wash. – The conference-leading Pacific Lutheran University baseball team dropped a pair of games to Whitman College on Saturday, falling in the opener 13-5 and dropping the nightcap 6-2. 
 
Game 1
The Lutes held a 5-4 lead after four complete, but the Blues scored three in the fifth, three in the sixth and three in the eighth to earn the comeback win. 
 
Tommy Snyder lasted four innings and gave up five runs on 10 hits while striking out three.  Senior reliever Alex Gregory (1-2) took the loss after failing to escape the fifth inning.  He recorded a pair of outs, walked three and gave up two runs.  Jonathan Cohen was the only Lute to not give up a run, getting four outs to bridge the sixth and tossing the seventh. 
 
Offensively, Connor Lemma hit a home run, while John Graham and Cole Trotignon each had a pair of hits to pace the attack. 
 
Game 2
A six-run second inning was all Whitman needed in the nightcap.  Spencer Howell (5-1) picked up the first loss of his season after he threw all eight innings and struck out five. 
 
Cole Trotignon drove in a run with an infield single in the third and Jordan Haworth's infield single in the eighth accounted for PLU's other run.  Trotignon had three hits, while Andy Schmitz and Haworth had two each.  The Lute offense produced 10 hits in the second game, but left eight men on base. 
 
PLU (18-11, 11-9) dropped down into third place in the league standings with today's results. The Lutes are two games behind league-leading Pacific University and 1.5 games behind Linfield University in the conference title race.  The Lutes and Blues will meet twice again tomorrow with just the first game counting in the conference standings.  First pitch is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.