May 6, 2006

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

ROMEOVILLE - Lewis battled regionally ranked Quincy in both games of Saturday's Great Lakes Valley Conference baseball doubleheader at Brennan Field, but the Hawks walked away with a sweep.

Quincy won game one 2-1 and captured the nightcap 7-1 in 14 innings.

Billy Duffy (Clarendon Hills, Ill./Hinsdale Central)'s fifth-inning bases-loaded walk accounted for the Flyers' only run in the opener. Quincy scored a run in each of the first two innings.

Quincy starter Brad Stone (10-2) allowed just three hits - singles to Duffy, Brandon Niewinski and Jim Gabriel - and three walks while fanning seven in six innings. Brad Shaeffer worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh to collect his fourth save.

Joe Walsh (2-11) was the Flyers' tough-luck loser. Walsh went the seven-inning distance and allowed just seven hits and a walk.

In game two, Quincy (34-16, 31-13 GLVC) broke a scoreless tie with a run in the eighth. But Lewis (10-44, 9-37 GLVC) plated an unearned run in the bottom of the inning on Ryan Duran (Glendale Heights, Ill./Driscoll)'s sacrifice fly to send the game into extra innings.

Both teams squandered a scoring chance in the 12th, as Quincy stranded two runners and Lewis left the bases loaded. The Hawks also wasted a leadoff single in the 13th.

Quincy's eventual game-winning run in the 14th was unearned, although the Hawks added five insurance tallies.

Shaeffer (7-2) tossed three innings of one-hit relief to register the win. Quincy starter Brad Bumpus worked the first 11 innings and yielded two hits and two walks while striking out six.

Flyer starter Adam Stabosz and reliever Matt Rolle were outstanding as well. Stabosz went 7 1/3 innings and scattered six hits, while Rolle allowed just two hits and two walks to go with six strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. Jon Crettol (0-5) suffered the loss.

Duffy, Niewinski, Darryl Jenkins and Phil Marchinski had a hit apiece for the Flyers.

Lewis concludes the season on Sunday with another doubleheader against Quincy. Game time has been moved back one hour to 1 p.m.