NEWBERG, Ore. - Rider Gordon and Dillon Martin each had two-run singles, Blaise Heher was 4-for-5, and Dominic Rolla and Parker McGraw combined on a five-hitter, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team opened its four-game Oregon trip with a 6-2 win over George Fox on Friday. 

With the win, CMS moves to 23-8 on the season, while George Fox falls to 11-19 with the loss. Rolla started and went five innings to get the win for the Stags, improving to 5-1 on the year, while McGraw threw four shutout innings of relief for the save. 

Gordon broke a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning with a two-run single, which came after Alex Henderson and Carter Bennett drew walks, and a Heher single loaded the bases. In the eighth, Slader Spoor and Nate Seluga hit doubles to put runners on second and third and nobody out, and one out later, Martin singled to right to plate them both and stretch the lead to 6-2. 

Heher started the scoring with an RBI single in the second, before George Fox went ahead 2-1 in the bottom half. A Gordon sacrifice fly in the fourth pulled CMS even. 

McGraw had five straight strikeouts at one point, getting the last two outs in the sixth via K, and then striking out the side in the seventh. He hit two straight batters to start the eighth, but Gordon started a double play to get the two lead runners to help CMS escape the jam. 

The two teams will be back in action tomorrow for a doubleheader, before CMS closes out the four-game trip on Sunday with a single game against Pacific.