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Springfield, Mo. – Despite an exciting 5-4 victory over Ashland earlier in the day, the Lewis University baseball team's season came to an end witha  13-1 loss to Bellarmine on Saturday (May 18) at the 2013 NCAA Division II Baseball Midwest Regional at Meador Field.
 
The Flyers eliminated Eagles (37-19) from the tournament and advanced to face Bellarmine in the evening. In the second game, the Knights defeated the Flyers, 13-1, to end the Flyers (33-18) season.
 
“It's always tough when the season comes to an end,” Lewis head baseball coach Tim McDonough said. “I am really proud of the way we fought for 18 innings today.”
 
“Game one was a great college baseball game in a great atmosphere,” McDonough continued. “To win that one was exciting, but unfortunately, in game two we just didn't have enough.”
 
In the first game, Ashland took a 4-3 lead into the ninth, putting a single run on the board in the first and sixth inning and pushing two across in the fifth.

After the first two Flyers' batters struck out and groundedout, junior Drew Buddle (Bartlett, Ill./South Elgin) kept the inning going with a single to right center. Junior Jake Murray (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove North) hit a ball that caugh the strong breeze to go over the wall for a two-run home run.
 
Lewis plated a run in the third inning when Murray's groundout scored sophomore Mike Barajas (Chicago, Ill./Nazareth) from third. The Flyers' other two runs came in the fourth inning when Barajas doubled in redshirt junior Kyle Thomas (Homer Glen, Ill./Providence Catholic) and sophomore Mark Kornacker (Lemont, Ill./Lemont).
 
Senior starter Matt Frahm (McLean, Ill./Olympia) threw his fifth complete-game of the season in the victory. Frahm (8-2) gave up four runs, two earned, on 10 hits while striking out six and walking one.
 
Ashland's Zach Botjer (5-5) took the loss, throwing three innings in relief. He gave up two runs on two hits while striking out two and walking one.
 
In the nightcap, the Knights quickly jumped out ahead of the Flyers, going up 9-0 in the second. Senior relief pitcher Derek Thomas (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy) was able to stop the Knights from scoring in the third and fourth innings, but Bellarmine put three more on the scoreboard in the third to push the score to 12-0. 
 
The Knights added a run in the seventh on a solo home run by Graham Spencer, who went three-for-four at the plate. The Knights' Cole Metcalf and Michael Morrisette each had three hits in the game.
 
Frahm, pinch-hitting in the bottom of the ninth, got his first career hit and RBI when he singled in Norwood from second to break up the shutout.
 
Sophomore starter Dylan Cysewski (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central) took the loss, tossing 0.1 of an inning. Cysewski (0-3) gave up three runs on one hit and walked one.
 
The Knights' Curtis McCombs (6-2) threw seven innings in the win, striking out eight and walking two.
 
“We had a great senior group lead this team,” McDonough said. “I am proud of the guys' effort all year long.”