SANTA BARABARA, Calif.—Concordia, kept off the scoreboard on Wednesday in a 3-0 loss to Fresno Pacific, remedied that with a lot of runs on Thursday morning in an elimination game against host Westmont.

The Golden Eagles kept their season alive with a 12-3 win over the Warriors, advancing to this afternoon’s 4 pm game against the loser of the 12:30 game between Point Loma and Fresno Pacific.

Wyatt Madison pitched seven strong innings with 13 stikeouts and the Golden Eagle offense put up crooked numbers in four of the nine innings to roll to the win. Westmont, the #4 seed, sees their season come to a close at 29-21.

CUI used some help to put three runs on the scoreboard in the first inning. Three walks, an error and a wild pitch contributed to the rally, and the Golden Eagles needed just one hit to plate their runs.

Landry Spitler hit a solo home run in the second to put Concordia up 4-0. In the fourth, CUI scored four times on just two hits and four walks to build a 8-0 lead.

Madison was lights out to that point before running into some trouble in the seventh. Westmont’s Jesse Di Maggio hit a two-run homer and Bobby Lague hit a solo shot to make it 8-3. Madison left the contest after seven full innings and just two hits, three runs, three walks and the 13 punch outs.

Concordia answered Westmont’s output with three more runs in the eighth and one in the ninth. Three of those runs came via Nicolas Erickson’s three-run homer in the eighth.

Erickson finished with five RBI for CUI and three hits. Spitler also had three hits and scored three times. Nolan Caira drove in three runs on two hits.

The victory was the 30^th of the season for Concordia and they will take a 30-24 record into their 4 pm elimination contest.