VANCOUVER, B.C. – A record-setting season for the Oregon Tech baseball team came to a close at Tourmaline West Stadium, as British Columbia eliminated the Owls from postseason contention with a doubleheader sweep.
 
The Thunderbirds (26-22, 14-9 CCC) rallied for 7-4 and 9-6 victories to complete the 4-game sweep.
 
Despite the two losses, Dalton Daily and Dylan Grogan set new single-season records for the Owls (30-25, 9-15) – who finished the season with their most wins since 2009. Daily hit a third inning homer in Game 2, with his season total of 16 setting a new OIT mark, while Grogan recorded four strikeouts in a Game 2 no decision, pushing his total to 78 – the most ever by a Tech pitcher.
 
Alex Malcolm went 3-for-4 and both Ian Peters and Mitchel Swanson had two hits in Game 1 – a see-saw contest.
 
Tech led 2-0 – plating a second inning run on a UBC error, with Peters adding a third inning RBI single. After the T-Birds tied the game in the fifth, OIT regained the lead in the sixth on a Matthew Ortiz sacrifice fly.
 
Brett Corbath delivered a 2-run single for the hosts in the seventh to give the T-Birds a lead, but Ortiz quickly tied the score in the eighth with an RBI single. Unfortunately, UBC got to the Owls bullpen in the eighth, as a Jeff McGill 2-run single broke the 4-4 tie – leading to the win.
 
OIT used back to back 3-run innings to take a 6-1 lead in the third of Game 2. Ortiz logged his third RBI of the day with a single in the second, while following Daily's home run, Matthew Macias ripped a 2-run double to give the Owls the big edge.
 
UBC chipped away a the lead, scoring a pair in the third, one in the fifth and tying the score in the sixth, before Mike Fitzsimmons launched a 2-run seventh inning homer to give the T-Birds the lead for good.
 
Both Daily and Tyler Horner had two hits in the loss for the Owls.