St. Ambrose struggled to slow Olivet Nazarene in dropping a doubleheader by scores of 9-7 and 16-4 Tuesday afternoon in Bourbonnais, Ill.

The Tigers scored runs in nine different innings across the two games.

Michael Stupavsky's sacrifice fly brought in Jake Pauley to give the Bees a short-lived 1-0 lead in the top of the first of Game 1. ONU responded with three runs in the bottom half and added another run in the second.

Every time St. Ambrose (13-12, 8-4 CCAC) scored, Olivet Nazarene immediately answered.

Filip Milatovic and Bryce Vorwald had RBIs in the third to cut the deficit to 4-3, but the Tigers came back with three runs of their own. Trailing 8-3 entering the eighth, SAU got a run back on Mason Heitzler's sacrifice fly before ONU scored on a sac fly of its own in the bottom half.

The Bees threatened in the ninth with Milatovic clearing the bases with a three-run double. Vorwald drew a two-out walk to put the potential tying runs on base, but they were stranded there.

Pauley (3-for-4) and Vorwald (2-for-2) had multi-hit games. Milatovic, Stupavsky, Heitzler, Quinn Flanagan and Michael Rago also had hits.

Noah Chase was tagged with the loss. He pitched the first three innings before Aidan Pieniazek threw three frames and Ian McGhiey pitched the final two.

Olivet Nazarene got off to another fast start in the second game, following a one-run first inning with a six-run second. The Tigers added three runs in the fifth before breaking things open with six runs in the sixth.

Flanagan drove in two with a double in the fourth that got St. Ambrose to within 7-3. Pauley had an RBI groundout in the sixth for the final Bee run.

Rago (two), Pauley, Flanagan, Vorwald, Chase, Peter Mitchell and Mason Nauman had the SAU hits.

Jack Kerpan took the loss. He was the first of five Bee pitchers. He was followed by Matt Donovan, Nathaniel Johnson, Ysen Useni and Caden Schwenker.

St. Ambrose will host Viterbo at Modern Woodmen Park Friday and Saturday.