ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- The Lewis University baseball team defeated Roosevelt 8-4 at Brennan Field Tuesday (April 1). 

TEAM RECORDS
Lewis 20-6 | Roosevelt 7-21

SUMMARY
Lewis jumped out to an early 2-0 lead after the Flyers scored two runs in the opening inning. Jason Krol (Chicago, Ill./St. Laurence) drove home Mikey Kocen (Beach Park, Ill./UNC-Pembroke) with an RBI single. 

Krol came around and to score on a wild pitch, making it 2-0 Lewis. Both teams were scoreless in the second inning, keeping it at 2-0 Flyers. 
 
Roosevelt got one run back in the top of the third, cutting their deficit to 2-1. The Lakers loaded the bases in the same frame but could not bring across another run. 
 
Roosevelt loaded the bases again the fourth but Lewis starter Jackson Kottmeyer (Aurora, Ill/Kaneland) escaped the bases-loaded jam. 
 
Lewis loaded the bases in the bottom of the fourth. Chris McDevitt (Chicago, Ill./St. Rita) extended the Flyers lead to 3-1 after hitting an RBI groundout to second, scoring Jackson Hunley (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie). George Bilecki (Chicago, Ill./Marist) made it 5-1 after smashing a two-run double to right center, scoring Cole Nelson (St. Charles, Ill/Lenoir Rhyne) and Tyler Phommachanhom (Plainfield, Ill/Parkland CC). 
 
Kocen scored on a wild pitch, making it 6-1 in favor of the Flyers. Krol gave Lewis a 7-1 lead after hitting a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Bilecki from third. 
 
Daniel Rosado (Burbank, Ill.) came in to pitch the fifth inning and threw a scoreless frame. Seth Nanna (Carmel, Ind/Westfield) pitched out of a jam in the sixth frame. 
 
Lewis added another run in the bottom of the seventh inning, making it 8-1 after Hunley drove home Krol with an RBI single to center.
 
Roosevelt got three runs back in the top of the eighth inning with a three-run home run, making it 8-4 Lewis. 
 
Colin Amsden threw a scoreless ninth inning, ending the game with the Flyers winning 8-4.
 
Lewis' starting pitcher Jackson Kottmeyer (Aurora, Ill/Kaneland) (1-0) recorded the win on the mound after throwing four innings, allowing seven hits, one run, issuing one walk and striking out three. 
 
UP NEXT
Lewis will return to action Friday, April 4 for a doubleheader at Davenport starting at noon CT.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lewis will honor the 1974, 1975 and 1976 Championship Teams on Saturday, April 12 against Quincy. To sign up visit:
https://www.alumni.lewisu.edu/2025-Baseball-50th-Alumni
 
FLYERS ANNUAL FUND
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