Win streak reaches five as offense explodes again
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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St. Ambrose (IA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 0 |
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Trinity Christian (IL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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St. Ambrose (IA) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 23 | 2 |
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Trinity Christian (IL) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 19 | 5 |
For the fourth and fifth straight times, St. Ambrose put up double-digit runs. And for the fourth and fifth straight times, the Bees found the win column.
St. Ambrose continued its recent offensive outburst by taking a doubleheader at Trinity Christian by scores of 17-7 and 24-14 Friday.
Along with the 41 runs, the two wins featured 33 Bee hits, including 14 doubles, two triples and seven home runs.
Jeremy Conforti and Brandon Matias each hit a grand slam as part of a multi-homer day. Conforti homered twice in the first game while Matias hit one in the opener and had a pair of homers in the second game.
Conforti was 4-for-4 with nine RBIs in the first game and followed that up with three more hits and three more RBIs in Game 2.
Matias had just his solo blast in the first game but banged out four hits and drove in eight runs in the second.
The Bees actually trailed 5-4 after four innings to start the day. But a five-run sixth inning and an eight-run seventh broke things open.
Bryce Vorwald, Jake Pauley, Brandon Roth, Quinn Flanagan and Kevin Niedzwiedz all had hits in the 17-7 win. Vorwald drove in a pair while Pauley and Caden Thode each knocked in one.
It all made a winner of Carson Johnson, who struck out five over five innings. Parker Ruth struck out three while pitching the final two frames.
St. Ambrose (10-12, 7-5 CCAC) scored seven runs over the first two innings of the 24-14 win. After Trinity Christian came back to within 7-6 after five, the Bees scored 16 runs over the sixth, seventh and eighth innings before tacking on a final run in the ninth to outlast the Trolls.
Behind Conforti and Matias, Roth, Flanagan, Thode and Joey Fitzgerald Jr. each had three hits in the second game. Pauley had two hits while Vorwald and Filip Milatovic had one apiece. Fitzgerald and Roth homered.
Pauley and Roth drove in two each while Milatovic, Flanagan, Thode and Daniel Laughery each had one RBI.
Justin Lane, the second of five St. Ambrose pitchers, picked up the win after tossing 1 2/3 innings. Noah Chase threw the first three innings while Garrett Vincent, Aaron Vertuno and Ian McGhiey combined to work the final 4 1/3 innings.
The two teams will finish their four-game series Saturday with a doubleheader in Clinton, Iowa, scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.