St. Ambrose moved to within a game of .500 in CCAC play by sweeping a doubleheader from Indiana South Bend Monday afternoon in Elgin, Ill. The Bees, now 11-12 in the conference, took the opener 8-6 before winning the second game 14-4 in seven innings.

Noah Powless had two hits and three RBIs in the Game 1 win, including a two-run single following a run-scoring single off the bat of Andrew Rodriguez in the first inning.

An inning later, Mike Snow and Rodriguez had RBI hits before Cole Aughenbaugh upped the lead to 7-0 with a two-run double.

After collecting eight hits over the first two innings, the Bees managed just three more hits over the final five frames. One of those hits was another RBI single from Powless, which gave SAU an 8-3 lead in the fourth after the Titans pushed across three runs in the top of the inning.

Indiana South Bend (11-35, 9-18 CCAC) made things interesting in the seventh, scoring three times and loading the bases before Jack Staten got a ground ball to end the game.

Staten recorded all three outs in the seventh to get the save. Noah Kesselmayer earned the win with six innings of work.

Coughlin, Snow, Rodriguez and Aughenbaugh joined Powless with two-hit games.

The Bees made sure there wasn't any late-inning drama in the second game, scoring at least one run in each of the first five innings.

Familiar names helped St. Ambrose to an early lead. Powless had an RBI single in the first inning, Rodriguez drew a bases-loaded walk in the second, and Peyton Minder and Coughlin had run-scoring hits in the third to stake Collin Rogiers to a 4-0 lead.

SAU broke things open in the fourth, scoring nine times on just three hits. Five of the first six Bees in the inning reached without a single hit. There were four walks, two hit batsmen and a pair of errors in the frame. Coughlin had a two-run single, Aughenbaugh a three-run double and Powless an RBI single to account for the three hits.

IUSB got its four runs in the top of the fifth before an Aughenbaugh single in the bottom of the inning plated Minder to complete the scoring.

Rogiers got the win after pitching 4 2/3 innings. James Cormier struck out two over the final 2 1/3 innings.

Coughlin had three hits and Aughenbaugh and Powless each had two in the Game 2 victory.

St. Ambrose is next scheduled to host Saint Xavier in a conference doubleheader Wednesday.