NEWBERG, Ore. - Rider Gordon and Josh Jacobs each had two RBI and Jacob Young got the final out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth for the save, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team won the first game of a Saturday doubleheader with George Fox 5-4. 

George Fox, which won the first game of the series on Friday 5-4, bounced back to take the nightcap on Saturday 12-6 to take a two games to one lead in a series that concludes tomorrow. CMS is now 23-10 on the season with today's split, while George Fox moved to 12-20. 

CMS jumped out to a 3-0 lead in Saturday's opener as Blaise Heher had an RBI double in the fourth to score Carter Bennett, and Jacobs followed with a single to center field. 

Gordon then hit a homer to left center in the fifth to put the Stags up 3-0, before George Fox came back to tie it 3-3 in the seventh. In the eighth, a hit by pitch and two walks loaded the bases, and Jacobs put CMS ahead to stay with a sacrifice fly. Gordon added an RBI double to score Alex Henderson, who doubled before him, to make it a 5-3 game in the ninth. 

The Bruins were able to get two on with one out when the Stags went to Young in the bullpen, who got a strikeout for the second out. George Fox was able to get a run across, and had the tying run on third and the winning run on second, when Young got the last out on a grounder to Gordon at third. 

Five different Stags had two hits in the opener, with Bennett and Jacobs each finishing 2-for-3, Gordon and Keegan Cabrera going 2-for-4, and Henderson batting 2-for-5. Tegin Maloney started and went 5.2 innings allowing two hits, and Brant Smaaladen got the in in relief before giving way to Young for the save. 

CMS fell behind 7-1 early in the nightcap, and got to within 7-4 on a two-run single from Heher in the fourth. A Jacobs two-run double in the sixth closed the gap to 10-6, but George Fox added two more insurance runs in the eighth to seal it. Heher was 2-for-4 in the nightcap, as was Dillon Martin and Carter Bennett, while Bryce Didrickson was 2-for-5. 

On Friday, Martin was 4-for-5 with a homer and two RBI, and Henderson was 3-for-5, but the Bruins were able to hang on for a 5-4 win. Martin's solo homer tied it 4-4 in the seventh, but George Fox answered in the bottom half to go ahead 5-4. The Stags had runners on first and third and one out in the ninth, but the Bruins were able to escape. 

The two teams will complete their four-game series tomorrow with a single game at 11 a.m.