Baseball Falls to Pepperdine in Final Game of the Series

Sunday, March 9

Malibu, Calif.

4 p.m.

Columbia

Pepperdine

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Baseball Falls to Pepperdine in Final Game of the Series

3/9/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

By: Columbia University Athletics

MALIBU, CALIF. - Pepperdine battled three Columbia pitchers and put up 14 hits en route to a 9-0 win to complete the four-game series.

The starters, Robert Dickmann for Pepperdine and Geoff Whitaker for the Lions, each pitched three innings of scoreless baseball until Eric Thames blasted a two-run home run in the fourth inning to give Pepperdine a 2-0 lead.

Columbia threatened in their half of the inning when Jason Banos hit a one-out double to left field, but Dickmann battled out of the inning unscathed.

Thames struck again in the fifth with an opposite field, two-run triple to give the Waves a 4-0 lead and Pepperdine didn't look back.

Trailing 9-0, the Lions tried to rally in the ninth but were unable to convert, leaving three stranded.

Henry Perkins and Alex Ferrera each had two hits for the Lions.

The Lions fell to 0-8 while the #24 Waves improved to 10-3.

The Lions are back in action March 14 at 7 p.m. when they take on Georgia Southern in the first game of a four-game series in Statesboro, Ga.