It took a slugfest, but the La Verne baseball team came away with a win in the first game of its series against the Whittier Poets, 17-12, Friday at Ben Hines Field.
La Verne senior first baseman Ben White came through in the clutch with a game-tying home run against Pomona-Pitzer in the bottom of the ninth Saturday.
Senior shortstop Woody Reyes hit a run-scoring single up the middle to invoke the mercy rule, as the Leopards defeated the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags, 13-3, in seven innings Friday at Ben Hines Field.