April 18, 2010

Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

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ROMEOVILLE, Ill. - After sweeping Indianapolis on Saturday, the Lewis baseball team trailed 2-1 and was tied 3-3 entering the final inning of each game on Sunday. However late Indianapolis rallies in both games lifted the Greyhounds to 6-1 and 12-3 victories over the Flyers on Sunday.

The Greyhounds put two on the board in the third inning of game one. Aryn Ross' doubled down the left field line scored Kaleb Cunningham. Chase Kittinger singled in Ross with a two-out single.

Lahey faced a bases loaded one-out situation in the fifth inning but worked out of it with a double play.

Lewis scored one in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly by junior Miguel Amesquita (Hometown, Ill./Brother Rice/Triton).

The Greyhounds put the game away with four runs in the top of the seventh.

Sophomore Pat Lahey (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove South) started and took the loss for the Flyers, dropping his record to 3-4. He went six innings, allowing three runs on 11 hits.

Game two was close up until the ninth inning. Indianapolis led 2-0 when Lewis tied it with a pair of runs in the fourth inning. Junior Ryan Koerner (LeRoy, Ill./LeRoy) walked with the bases loaded to force in the second run and get an RBI in the inning.

It was the same 2-2 score in the seventh when Indianapolis loaded the bases with one out. However the Flyers got out of the inning thanks to an impressive throw by Koerner to the plate to end the inning on a 9-2 double play.

Lewis plated a run in the seventh on a RBI sacrifice fly by senior Scott Householder (Berwyn, Ill./St. Josephs/Triton) to score Koerner. The lead didn't last long as Indianapolis knotted it with a run in the eighth.

Following a scoreless bottom of the eighth for Lewis, the Greyhounds took control of the game with nine runs in the top of the ninth.

Junior Tyler Newsome (Palos Heights, Ill./Marist/South Suburban CC) started game two, going six innings and allowing two runs (one earned). Freshman Matt Frahm (McLean, Ill./Olympia) took the loss, throwing 2.0 innings. His record drops to 1-6.

"We competed for 30 of the 32 innings this weekend," head coach Tim McDonough said. "Give credit to Indy for executing on their end today. We just never got in an offensive rhythm all weekend."

Indianapolis improves to 25-15 (14-8 Great Lakes Valley Conference). Lewis falls to 22-22 (13-11 GLVC).

"We have two conference weekends left and we control our own destiny," McDonough said. "That's a good position to be in."

Lewis plays at Missouri-St. Louis in a pair of non-conference games on Wednesday before returning to GLVC play on Saturday and Sunday at Bellarmine.