St. Ambrose splits mid-week doubleheader with St. Francis
Game 1
Game 1
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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St. Francis (IL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
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St. Ambrose (IA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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St. Francis (IL) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
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St. Ambrose (IA) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 4 | 0 |
St. Ambrose and St. Francis split a pair of one-run games Tuesday afternoon at NelsonCorp Field in Clinton, Iowa. The Saints won the opener 4-3 in 10 innings before the Bees took the second game 1-0.
Three Bee pitchers combined no a four-hit shutout in the finale.
Aidan Stratton worked the first three innings, surrendering three hits. Then Matt Donovan went three innings, allowing just a single hit while striking out three. Connor Bird entered in the seventh and retired the three batters he faced.
St. Ambrose (23-14, 18-6 CCAC) also managed just four hits, those coming off the bats of Filip Milatovic, Bryce Vorwald, Matthew McBrien and Mason Heitzler.
SAU got the only run it would need in the fourth. With two outs, Vorwald drew a walk and stole second. McBrien then beat out an infield single up the middle allowing Vorwald to score what proved to be the winning run.
Donovan was credited with the win while Bird earned the save.
The first game also saw a strong pitching performance from a pair of Bees.
Noah Chase started and went 6 1/3 innings, allowing five hits and two earned runs. Michael Moise tossed the final 3 2/3 innings, surrendering five hits and one run.
Mason Nauman gave SAU a 1-0 lead in the first with a sacrifice fly to score Jake Pauley.
St. Francis tied the game with a run in the second and then went up 3-1 with a pair of runs in the sixth.
St. Ambrose battled back with Heitzler doubling in Vorwald in the sixth and Michael Rago singling to plate McBrien with the tying run in the eighth. The Bees had runners on second and third with two outs following Rago's hit but could not take the lead.
USF pushed across a run to take a 4-3 lead in the 10th. Heitzler reached on a two-out hit in the bottom of the 10th but was stranded there.
Heitzler and Quinn Flanagan each finished with three hits. Pauley, Milatovic, McBrien, Rago and Peter Mitchell had the other Bee hits.
Moise took the loss.
The Bees will play an important four-game series against Judson this weekend. The teams will play a doubleheader in Elgin, Ill., Friday before concluding the series with a doubleheader in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Saturday.