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Box Score 2 CAROL STREAM, Ill. - The Elmhurst baseball team upped its CCIW record to 2-2 after splitting a doubleheader at Wheaton College. The Bluejays took game one 4-3 but fell 6-2 in the night cap.
Elmhurst improved to 9-6 overall with the split. The Bluejays host Millikin University in a three-game CCIW series starting on Saturday (April 6).
ELMHURST 4, WHEATON 3 (Game One) - The Bluejays edged past Wheaton 4-3 to take the opening game of the doubleheader.
Elmhurst plated three runs in the third inning to take a 3-1 lead.
Brian Evans,
Dave Wolak and
Zach Tsiodras all collected RBI singles in the three-run frame.
Wheaton scored a run in the third and another in the fifth to even the score at 3-3, but the Bluejays took the lead for good in the sixth on
Brian Marquis' run-scoring double.
Joe Kennedy and
Eric Stevenson collected two hits apiece in the win.
Ryan Millan worked six innings, allowing just six hits and one earned run to earn the win for Elmhurst. Millan walked three and fanned six.
Joe Ramirez tossed 2.1 scoreless innings of relief, scattering two hits while striking out two.
Erik Swanson recorded the final two outs to record a save.
WHEATON 6, ELMHURST 2 - Wheaton (5-14, 1-4 CCIW) salvaged a split by scoring four runs over the final four innings to earn a 6-2 win.
The Thunder led 2-0 after four innings, but a
Luke Collins solo homer in the fifth and an RBI single from Collins in the sixth evened the score at two.
Wheaton plated a run in the sixth, another in the seventh, and then tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the eighth to earn the four-run win.
Collins sparked the Bluejays at the plate, recording three of the team's six hits and driving in both runs.
Marquis took the loss for the Bluejays, tossing 6.1 innings and scattering eight hits and two earned runs. He walked one and struck out one.
Wheaton's Josh Arevalo earned the win, limiting the Bluejays to only six hits and two runs over eight innings. He struck out six while not issuing a walk.