Starting the day tied at 7 in the 12th inning of the series opener, the Oaks fell 8-7 in the same frame, but won the first game of the scheduled doubleheader against the Pioneers 6-1 and stormed from six runs behind to win the nightcap 8-7. If the weather holds, the teams will meet for their fourth and final game of the weekend at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Picking up where Friday's game left off, it took little time for things to be decided. Lewis & Clark's Michael Ball lined a home run over the left field wall with one out in the top of the 12th inning to put the Pioneers ahead to stay at 8-7. The Oaks, who had forced extra innings with a run in the bottom of the ninth and extended play again by tying the score in the 11th on Friday, went down quietly in the home half of the inning.

It was a straightforward end to a dramatic game, though Menlo apparently lost its mojo as the sun set on Friday evening.

A Shane Parsons double gave the Oaks an early lead and Chris Mazza smacked a two-run home run in the third inning for a 3-1 Menlo advantage. Starting pitcher Brian Priestley left the game after five solid innings with the same lead and Lewis & Clark quickly responded to seeing the Oaks ace head to the dugout.

The Pioneers scored five times in the top of the sixth inning for a 6-3 cushion that last until a late Menlo rally knotted the score.

Parsons clubbed a homer to lead off the eighth and Coleman Cox came through with a pinch hit single that plated Ty Finley with two outs to close the gap. In the ninth, Mazza tripled and scored the tying run on a wild pitch.

Menlo fell behind in the 11th inning only to tie the score again when Paul Oakley reached on an error and scored when Parsons obliterated a ball that landed at the base of the 425-foot sign in center field. Parsons reached third on a one-out balk, but was stranded there as the game continued, albeit on Saturday.

A rough start to Koontz' day appeared to continue in the wrong direction when, as the starting pitcher in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader, he allowed a solo home run to Tucker Laurence in the first inning. But the big junior was dominant from that point on.

Koontz pitched a complete game, allowing just three hits and striking out nine in the seven-inning game. Only once did Koontz allow Lewis & Clark to get two runners on base at the same time and when he did - holding a 5-1 lead in the sixth inning - he induced c0onsecutive ground outs to end the inning.

With runs coming at a premium for the Pioneers, Menlo took the lead for good in the second inning before adding three more that Koontz wouldn't even need in the fourth.

Michael Brandi reached on a one-out walk and advanced on a walk to start the game-winning second inning. Cox doubled to left field, plating Brandi to tie the score, and later scored the go-ahead run on a Brad Binder single.

Holding a 2-1 lead in the fourth, Menlo found a way to tack three runs onto its lead with only one base hit. Brandi walked and moved to third base on consecutive ground outs to second. Jonathan Ochoa wore a pitch and Joel Hull walked to load the bases. C.J. Dailey then walked on four pitches to plate Brandi before Parsons pushed Ochoa and Hull across the plate with a single to center.

Hull scored the Oaks last run of the game when he reached on an error, moved to third base on a Dailey single, and beat the throw home on a Parsons ground ball to short.

The Oaks managed only five hits in the game and took their time getting much done offensively in the nightcap.

Lewis & Clark took advantage of some shoddy Menlo defense to jump out to a 6-0 lead through five innings of day's final game. The Oaks weren't any better at the plate, entering the bottom of the sixth inning without a hit against Pioneers starter David La Douceur.

Facing a six-run deficit it took one swing of the bat to change Menlo fortune. Following a Hull walk, Dailey turned on a La Douceur and parked it in the trees beyond the left field wall for the Oaks first hit of the game. Just like that it was a 6-2 ballgame and Menlo wasn't done.

With one out, Mazza and Brandi smacked singles in succession prior to a Cox walk. The bases were juiced when Tyler Wilson drove in a pair of runs with a single to center field that cut the Pioneers lead in half and chased La Douceur. Following a Finley fly out, pinch hitter Kyle Wilkerson drove a double that plated Cox and Wilson to tie the game at 6-all.

Menlo took the lead the following inning. Parsons was hit by a pitch and Mazza hit a single to center that Gianluca Giarrizzo couldn't handle as both runners took an extra base. Brandi walked to load the bases before a Cox walk scored Parsons and Wilson was hit by a pitch to plate Mazza for an 8-6 advantage.

Nick Vandever got through his second easy inning of relief in the seventh and handed the ball to Mazza to close things out. The lanky sophomore stranded two runners in the eighth inning and one more in the ninth after allowing an unearned run to get the save. Vandever was the winning pitcher.

Dailey and Mazza each had two hits in the game for Menlo.

The Oaks improved to 4-3 on the season heading into the series finale with Lewis & Clark. The Pioneers are now 2-1 heading into Sunday's action.