VANCOUVER – The UBC Thunderbirds baseball team pounded out 20 hits in a 13-4 non-conference win over the eighth-ranked Hope International Royals Tuesday night in Fullerton, Calif.
 
UBC (3-4) fell behind 1-0 on a first-inning home run, but then reeled off 13 straight runs before the hosts added three in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Senior pitcher Brad Smith got his first win of the season. He gave up just four hits and a run in seven complete innings of work for the Thunderbirds.
 

Justin Orton had four hits in six at-bats Tuesday, driving in three runs, including two on a double to left center in the third inning to give UBC a 5-1 lead.
 
Newcomer Jake Lanferman also had three RBI. His single in the third brought home Kyle McComb to put UBC ahead 2-1. He also had an RBI groundout in the sixth that made it 6-1. The 'Birds went up 10-1 on his single in the ninth, one of four runs the team scored in the inning. Lanferman finished 3-for-6 and also scored three runs.
 
Lichel Hirakawa-Kao, Mitch Robinson, Lucas Soper, Jaxon Valcke and Anthony Cusati all recorded a pair of hits each for UBC.
 
Austen Butler's RBI double down the left field line in the second tied the game at 1-1. Then the 'Birds broke things open in the third with four runs, with Robinson driving one in on a single in between the hits from Lanferman and Orton.
 
UBC tacked on another three runs in the sixth, highlighted by Hirakawa-Kao's second triple of the season, which allowed Cusati to come home.
 
The next game for the blue and gold will take place Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Cal Poly Pomona, an NCAA Division II program.