Box Score 1 |
Box Score 2 WHITING, Ind. – The Roosevelt University baseball team split a pair of Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference games with host Calumet St. Joseph at Oil City Stadium on Friday, April 9.
The Lakers were edged by the Crimson Wave in the opener by a final of 4-3 before Roosevelt's seven-run seventh inning broke a 3-3 deadlock and propelled the Green and White to a no-doubt 11-4 victory in the nightcap.
Andrew Olszewski (JR/Beecher, Ill.) homered in game one and went 4-for-5 in game two.
GAME 1 DETAILS
Score: Roosevelt 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 3
Calumet St. Joseph 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 7 1
W: Everaert L: Mathias
Records: Roosevelt 9-10, 8-9 CCAC // Calumet St. Joseph 4-21, 2-9 CCAC
Location: Oil City Stadium | Whiting, Ind.
THE NUMBERS
NEWS & NOTES
- Roosevelt scored three times in the second on Donahue's double and Olszewski's homer
- CCSJ scored twice in its half of the second and tied the game on a wild pitch in the third
- The Crimson Wave broke a 3-3 deadlock in the fifth on a sacrifice fly
- Roosevelt put the tying run on second with one out in the seventh but came away empty
GAME 2 DETAILS
Score: Roosevelt 0 2 0 0 1 0 7 0 1 11 15 0
Calumet St. Joseph 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 8 2
W: Solis L: Davenport
Records: Roosevelt 10-10, 9-9 CCAC // Calumet St. Joseph 4-22, 2-10 CCAC
Location: Oil City Stadium | Whiting, Ind.
THE NUMBERS
- Andrew Olszewski reached base five times, going 4-for-5 with a walk, a double, an RBI and three runs scored
- Kerry Zeese (SO/Granger, Ind.) drove in three runs during his 2-for-4, two-double game
- Tyler Suchy (JR/Oak Forest, Ill.) went 2-for-4 with two RBI
- Krzysztof Solis (FR/Algonquin, Ill.) pitched the final 3.2 innings, fanning three for the win
- Five Lakers had multi-hit showings
- Starter Jordan Mikolajewski (SR/Plainfield, Ill.) struck out four in 5.1 innings
NEWS & NOTES
- Roosevelt led 3-2 when CCSJ tied the game on a bases-loaded walk
- Unfazed, the Lakers broke the deadlock and the game wide open in the next half-inning when Zeese did bases-loaded damage of his own by clearing the bags on a go-ahead double
- Andrew Rodriguez (SR/Oak Forest, Ill.) followed Zeese's double with an RBI two-bagger of his own
- Roosevelt scored three more times in the seventh and added another run in the ninth to put the game away
- Suchy drove in the Lakers' final two runs
NEXT UP
Roosevelt hosts the finale of the three-game set between the Lakers and the Crimson Wave at Ozinga Field in Crestwood, Ill. on Sunday at 1 p.m. Live coverage will be available on the Lakers Sports Network.
