HECTOR HERNANDEZ | staff writer
would open things up. Moving into the top of the seventh, the Cougars quickly loaded the bases with only one out after a series of singles. With the bases loaded, the Þ rst scores of the inning came from an error and a walk giving APU the lead for the Þ rst time.
ith the score now 3-2 with one out and the bases still loaded, the Cougars continued the spree until the bases were emptied at which point Cutspec hit a homerun down the center right of the Þ eld. The hard hitting of the Cougars Þ nally paid off and they would score once more before the end of the inning making it 7-2.
In the last innings of the game, The Master’s came on with some hard hitting of their own but the Cougar defense made the plays necessary to keep the Mustangs from scoring too often. They scored one run in each of the remaining innings as they brought the Þ nal score to 7-4.
The game proved to be a battle of consistency as the teams fought through the inning until their game broke through the others defense. For APU, it was the strong defense that held The Master’s in place and the great hitting game that allowed the Cougars to come out on top. “Amazingly enough, we didn’t hit the ball as well that inning as well as we had the previous six innings. So that is where you just have to believe in the process of the game and just hang in there,” Svagdis said of the high scoring seventh inning and the game long strength of the Cougars’ batting. “I don’t feel bad at all that we hit a dribbler with bases loaded and beat it out. Because the way our guys were hitting, I think the guys earned that in the Þ rst six innings.”
The win improved the Cougars to 32-5 in the season and 20-4 in the GSAC. The team plans to continue to take their games (home and away) one at a time and one series at a time.
“It looks good as long as we keep playing our game, sticking to what the coach says, sticking to our process of playing the game as oppose to worrying about the outcome of the game,” Gagne said.
