NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Lewis University baseball team lost both games of a doubleheader, 6-5 and 12-1 in seven innings, at Trevecca Nazarene Friday (Feb. 23).

GAME 1 TEAM RECORDS
Trevecca Nazarene 5-1 | Lewis 1-4 

GAME 1 SUMMARY
Trevecca opened the scoring with two runs in the bottom of the first inning, adding another run on a solo home run in the second. The Trojans pushed across one more in the bottom of the third to make it a 4-0 ballgame.

Lewis got on the board in the top of the fourth as Mikey Kocen (Beach Park, Ill.) led off with a homer to center, his second deep fly of the season. George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist) walked and Cain Headrick (Custer Park, Ill./Providence Catholic) reached on an error, a wild pitch scored Bilecki and Tony Fleischauer (Joliet, Ill./Joliet Catholic) singled home Headrick to get the Flyers within one, 4-3.

Trevecca did not let that last long, with a leadoff triple in the bottom half leading to another run to make it 5-3. Michael Sclafani (Oak Brook, Ill./Montini Catholic) then threw a scoreless fifth, and his day was done with five runs on eight hits and three walks with two strikeouts, taking the loss (1-1).

The Trojans scored again in the bottom of the sixth on a walk, hit batter, stolen base and sacrifice fly to increase its lead to 6-3. Dominic Coda (Plainfield, Ill./Joliet Catholic) and Seth Nanna (Carmel, Ind./Westfield) each worked a scoreless inning for Lewis, which headed to the ninth still down three.

A single by Kocen with two outs started a rally for the Flyers, with Bilecki then hitting a double and Headrick singling them both home, but a grounder to first base gave Trevecca the final out as Lewis fell short, 6-5.

GAME 2 TEAM RECORDS
Trevecca Nazarene 6-1 | Lewis 1-5 

GAME 2 SUMMARY
Game two started out on a rough note for the Flyers, as a bases-loaded triple for the Trojans led to a four-run bottom of the first. Trevecca scored one more in the second to make it 5-0.

Things got even worse for Lewis when the Trojans scored three more in the fourth including a double and a home run to bring the score to 8-0. That brought an end to Ryan Manikowski's (New Lenox, Ill./Providence) day on the mound, allowing eight runs on eight hits, four walks in and striking out four in four innings while taking the loss (0-2).

The Flyers led off the top of the sixth with a pair of walks and Kocen singled home Ryne Meriel (Niles, Ill./Carmel Catholic) for Lewis' only run in the game. Two errors in the bottom half of the inning led to four more runs for Trevecca, making it 12-1 and invoking the mercy rule after the Flyers did not score in the seventh.

UP NEXT
Lewis baseball finishes the series at Trevecca Nazarene with another doubleheader Saturday (Feb. 24) with game one starting at 12 p.m. CT.