HAMMOND, Ind. – Following five days of dormancy due to weather, the Roosevelt baseball team returned to the diamond on Tuesday and stood two outs from a doubleheader sweep at Purdue Calumet before settling for a twinbill split.
The Lakers (15-13, 6-7 CCAC) dominated the opener behind another superb complete game from Jared Jayne and another big day at the dish from Colten Trager for a 6-0 shutout win.
Roosevelt took a 5-3 lead into the ninth of the nightcap, but the Peregrines (12-12, 7-8 CCAC) rallied to tie and walked off with a 6-5 win in the 11th inning.
Trager went 2-for-3 with three RBI, while Alvin Perez drove in two runs during the first contest and registered two more hits in the second game.
Matt Kozlak went 3-for-5 with two runs driven in during the finale.
Jayne cruised to victory in the first game, allowing just five hits for seven innings of scoreless work.
Trager drove in runs during the first and fifth innings to sandwich Perez's two-run single in the third.
Roosevelt started the scoring in game two on Kozlak's third-inning two-run single, but the Peregrines scored three times in the bottom of the fifth to take their first lead of the day.
The Lakers responded with two runs in the seventh on run-scoring plays off the bats of Nick Garcia and Logan Fleener, and Roosevelt tacked on insurance in the eighth on Tyler Ward's sacrifice fly.
That insurance wasn't full coverage. Purdue Calumet put runners on early in the ninth to chase starter Marcus Radz, and the Peregrines plated two runners on a groundout and a sac fly to send the game to extras.
Roosevelt had something cooking in the 10th, when Fleener doubled to lead off and Kozlak singled to put two on. The Lakers loaded the bases with two outs, but Purdue Cal escaped unscathed.
The hosts then walked off in the bottom of the 11th on a two-out RBI single.
The Lakers host St. Francis at Standard Bank Stadium on Wednesday at 4 p.m. in a resumption of last Wednesday's suspended game.
