MARSHALL, TX. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team took game one of the NCAA Super Regional Series 6-4 over East Texas Baptist on Friday afternoon at Woods Field.
 
 Season Impact: With the win, the Sagehens improved to 36-12 on the year and are one win away from advancing to the NCAA College World Series.
 
The Sagehens were led by JC Ng who went a perfect 3-3 at the plate while Nate Jakobs had the biggest swing of the afternoon going 1-4 with a two-run homer. Peter Savas also had a multi-hit game while Greg Pierantoni, Jack Gold, Jimmy Legg, and Cooper Berry had hits as well.
 
Jake Hilton got the start for game 1 of the NCAA Super Regional and went 6.1 innings with three runs surrendered off of six hits and four strikeouts. Eric Prough came in for relief and ended up picking up the win to improve to 6-4 on the season.
 
It took a few innings for Hilton to settle in on the mound as the Tigers were doing damage via scattered solo shots in the early innings.  ETBU hit three solo home runs off of Hilton in the first four innings while Isaac Kim drove in the first run for the Sagehens off of a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1 Tigers through four innings of play.
 
The turning point of the game came in the sixth as the Sagehens plated three runs in the inning. Jakobs got the rally started with a two-run bomb to right field and Berry followed with an RBI single later in the inning to give the Sagehens their first lead of the game at 4-3.
 
ETBU came back to tie the game on a two-out RBI single to right field, but the Sagehens reclaimed the lead in their next at-bats with RBIs from Legg and Berry to take a 6-4 lead.
 
The Tigers had the tying run at the plate in the ninth, but Prough stayed solid for the Sagehens late in the game as Pomona-Pitzer took game one of the three-game series.
 
Up Next: The Sagehens will next look for one more win to advance to the 2024 NCAA College World Series with game two scheduled for Saturday, May 25^th at 11:00 a.m. EST.