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WHITTIER, Calif. – It was a rocky Saturday for the Whittier baseball team as the University of Redlands left Memorial Field with the twin bill sweep, earning a 16-1 win in Game 1 and an 11-3 win in the night cap.

The Poets (12-16, 4-13 SCIAC) were plagued by errors in the first game. Nine of the Bulldogs' runs were unearned as Whittier committed six errors.

Whittier led 1-0 through three innings before a nine-run fourth opened the game.  The fourth frame featured five errors and nine runs. The Bulldogs added three runs in each the fifth and sixth innings.

Austin Straus started on the hill and lasted 3.0 innings. He allowed five hits and nine runs (three earned) with a pair of strike outs. Austin Nogueira threw the final 4.0 innings. He gave up nine hits and seven runs (four earned).

As a team the Poets managed just three hits. Andrew Vallejo, Dan Gleiberman and Darby Weppner all reached base safely.

In the second game, the Bulldogs jumped out to a 3-0 lead but the Poets answered with a pair of runs in the home half of the third. Vallejo hit an RBI-double to score Sean-Michael Nada and Alex Gast drove in Vallejo with an RBI-single.

Whittier tied the game at 3-3 in its next at bat on an RBI-single from Nada to score Cory Goodchild. Nada finished the game 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.

From there Redlands took over and scored a combined eight runs in the three innings.

As a team, the Bulldogs had 20 hits.

Ryan Schwenn started and went 5.2 innings. He allowed 13 hits and seven runs with four strikeouts. Mike Rueda tossed an inning and a third out of the bullpen while Curtis Martin tossed a pair of scoreless innings.

Vallejo had two hits with a run scored and an RBI. Reed Tuttle, Gast, Weppner, Goodchild and Tyler Bogart all had hits.

Whittier and Redlands will complete its series tomorrow afternoon.