CAROL STREAM, Ill. – Clutch late-inning hitting and a complete-game performance from Mike Rostine propelled the Elmhurst baseball team to a 7-3 victory over Wheaton.

The Bluejays scored four runs in the final three innings, all of them coming with two outs. Rostine allowed just six hits and three runs (two earned) in the first complete game of his career.

Elmhurst took the game's first lead when a Wheaton error turned a sacrifice bunt into a run. After Wheaton tied it in the bottom of the inning, the Bluejays tacked on two more in the third. Reagan McReynolds tripled to right-center field and Brandon Kressner's ground out plated the speedy McReynolds from third. Then Ben Havel delivered a two-out triple to right and MacMillan put Elmhurst up 3-1 with an RBI single.

Wheaton pulled within one, scoring on a squeeze play in the third. Both pitchers settled down for the next couple of innings.

Elmhurst capitalized with clutch hitting in the final three innings. In the seventh, a McReynolds sacrifice fly, scored Ott and put the Bluejays ahead 4-2. An inning later, Ott recorded Elmhurst's third triple of the game, scoring Trey Compton and MacMillan. Leading 6-2, Havel played Matt Conroy on a two-out single in the ninth.
Wheaton sent seven to the plate in the ninth and scored one run, but Rostine closed the door on his complete game in style with a strikeout.

MacMillan went 5-for-5 in the game, scoring two runs and plating one. Havel, Compton, and Ott all had two RBIs and one run scored.

Wheaton's Josh Arevalo took the loss, allowing nine hits and four runs (three earned) over 6.1 innings. John Schmitz watched three Bluejays cross the plate in 2.1 innings, while Josiah Longenecker wrapped up the final out for the Thunder. Kyle Mellinger was the only Wheaton player to record more than one hit.

Elmhurst and Wheaton play a doubleheader tomorrow at Butterfield Park beginning at 12:00 p.m.