St. Ambrose dropped a pair of extra-inning games to Judson Friday afternoon at NelsonCorp Field in Clinton, Iowa. The Bees lost 4-3 and 6-4, both in eight innings.

Strikeouts proved to be a problem for SAU. The Bees struck out 15 times in the opener.

Jeremy Conforti staked the team to an early lead with an RBI single that scored Bryce Vorwald in the first inning. Joey Fitzgerald Jr. followed with a run-scoring single to push the lead to 2-0.

After Judson got a run back in the top of the second, St. Ambrose came right back with a run in the bottom half as Ethan McCombs scored on a balk.

The Bees would not score again. The Eagles scored once in the fifth and added an unearned run in the seventh to force extra innings. And in the eighth, a wild pitch allowed what proved to be the winning run to score.

SAU managed just four hits. Vorwald and Filip Milatovic had the other Bee hits. St. Ambrose also committed four errors.

Parker Ruth was charged with the loss after allowing two runs, one earned, over two innings. Brad Niedzwiedz also allowed just a single earned run over the first six frames.

It was the Bees who rallied to force extra innings in the second game.

Trailing 2-0 in the fourth, Brandon Roth came in to score on an error and an inning later, Quinn Flanagan singled in Fitzgerald to tie the score.

Judson went back in front 4-2 before an RBI single from Conforti in the sixth and a long RBI double to center off the bat of Noah Chase in the seventh knotted the score at 4-4.

But in the top of the eighth, an error on what would have been the final out of the inning, was followed by a two-run single. That proved to be the difference.

Conforti and Milatovic each registered two hits. Fitzgerald, Roth and Jake Pauley also had hits. The Bees struck out 10 times in the second game.

Joe Turek took the loss after working 7 2/3 innings. Garrett Vincent recorded the final out.

The Bees, now 18-19 overall and 15-11 in CCAC play, will play the final two games of the series at Judson Saturday afternoon.