INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Lewis University baseball team dropped a pair of games to Indianapolis Saturday (May 6), ending a five-game winning streak.
TEAM RECORDS
Lewis 29-20 overall, 20-11 Great Lakes Valley Conference | Indianapolis 31-17 overall, 16-15 GLVC
SUMMARY
Game 1: Indianapolis 4, Lewis 1
The Greyhounds scored four runs in the first inning, which were enough for the victory.
Lewis scored its run in the third inning as an
Angelo Cantelo (Blue Island, Ill./Marian Catholic) single scored
Patrick Keaty (South Elgin, Ill./South Elgin).
Shane Gorman (Orland Park, Ill./Br. Rice) (3-5) suffered the loss, allowing four earned runs on 10 hits in 5.1 innings.
Thomas Fox (Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Christian) and
Michael Alt (Appleton, Wis./Kimberly) each had two hits to lead the offense.
Game 2: Indianapolis 5, Lewis 3
Indianapolis struck first with a home run in the first inning, but the Flyers came back with three runs in the third inning.
Keaty belted a two-run home run to left field, scoring
Chris McDevitt (Chicago, Ill./St. Rita), to give Lewis a 2-1 lead. Alt added to that lead later in the inning with a sacrifice fly, scoring
George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist).
The Greyhounds came back with four runs in the fifth inning to take a 5-3 lead. The Flyers came back in the top of the sixth with the bases loaded and one out, but a double play ended the threat.
Lewis had one more chance in the seventh with the tying run at the plate and one out, but back-to-back groundouts ended the game.
Kevin Barry (Bartlett, Ill./South Elgin) and Keaty and two hits each for the Flyers.
Michael Sclafani (Oak Brook, Ill./Montini Catholic) (3-2) suffered the loss , allowing four earned runs on five hits in four innings.
UP NEXT
The Flyers will finish the regular season Sunday at Indianapolis at 11 a.m. CT.
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