March 20, 2004

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ROMEOVILLE - Matt Petrusek tossed a five-hitter, and Matt Flavin and Phil Marchinski had two RBI apiece to lead the Lewis University baseball team to a 6-2 victory over Southern Indiana Saturday in game one of a doubleheader.

In the nightcap, Southern Indiana scored four runs in the 10th inning to earn an 8-4 win and a split of the Great Lakes Valley Conference twinbill.

Petrusek (3-2) went the seven-inning distance in the opener and struck out six while walking just one.

Southern Indiana scored its only runs in the second on Matt Keener's solo home run and Corey Goers' suicide squeeze bunt.

Lewis made it 2-1 in its half of the second on Marchinski's sacrifice fly that scored Ahren Baranski. The Flyers tied it in the fifth on Andy Sweet (Belvidere, Ill./Belvidere)'s two-out solo homer.

Lewis struck for four runs in the sixth. Marchinski drove in Chris Carbonaro with what proved to be the winning run on a bases-loaded suicide squeeze bunt, and Baranski scored when pitcher Matt Goans' throw to the plate got away. Flavin followed with a two-run single.

Carbonaro and Flavin had two hits apiece in the opener.

USI (6-15, 2-6 GLVC) raced to a 4-0 lead in game two, scoring three runs in the first and one in the third, but Lewis (7-10, 1-1 GLVC) chipped away and pulled even.

The Flyers plated two runs in the third on Carbonaro's fielder's choice and a double steal that scored Sweet.

Carbonaro's groundout in the fifth scored Brian Davis to make it 4-3. The duo combined to produce the tying run in the seventh on Carbonaro's two-out single.

Both teams squandered chances in the eighth inning. Flyer reliever Dave Tolchin induced a bases-loaded double play that ended the USI eighth, but Lewis failed to score after loading the bases with one out in its half of the inning.

In the decisive top of the 10th, the Screaming Eagles received RBI hits from Trevor Kelly, Noah Wetzel and Keener and scored their final run on a passed ball.

USI's Aaron Clark (2-0) pitched 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Jae Fadde to collect the win. Clark fanned four and yielded just three hits and a walk.

Tolchin (0-1) was saddled with the loss. David Scheibe relieved Flyer starter Greg Moss and pitched well, allowing no runs, four hits and a walk in 3 2/3 innings.

Carbonaro, Matt Newquist and Brandon Niewinski all had two hits for Lewis in the nightcap.