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Box Score 2 LISLE, Ill. - The Wisconsin Lutheran College baseball team allowed six runs in the eighth inning in the second game of a doubleheader as host Benedictine swept the Warriors 4-1 and 10-4 Saturday afternoon at the Sports Complex.
The Eagles (11-10, 7-1 NACC) scored a single run in each of the first four innings of game one. Brandon Villanueva drove in runs in the first and third innings and Tim Hendricks delivered RBI hits in the second and fourth for BenU against WLC (13-9, 4-4 NACC) starting pitcher Jaime Paumen (Glencoe, Minn./Silver-Lake).
Paumen (1-3) held the Eagles to four runs, three earned, in 7.2 innings, but suffered the loss. Chris Jordan (2-1) kept the Warriors' bats quiet until the eighth inning, when Aaron Roeseler (Watertown, Wis./Luther Preparatory) drove an RBI single to right to bring home an unearned run and cut the deficit to 4-1. Jordan (2-1) allowed the unearned run on six hits in 7.2 innings for the victory.
Jake Klemme (Plymouth, Wis./Plymouth) and Sam Mattheis (Rosendale, Wis./Laconia) were each 2-for-4 for the Warriors and Klemme scored the lone run.
WLC jumped ahead early in game two with a pair of runs in the first inning. Garrick Day (Elk Mound, Wis./Elk Mound) reached on a walk and eventually scored on a wild pitch, and Brett Youngbeck (Brown Deer, Wis./Brown Deer) hit a run-scoring single to center to make it 2-0.
The Warriors plated another run in the fifth as Day, Roeseler, and Mattheis hit consecutive two-out singles, with Mattheis driving home Day to push the lead to 3-0.
Warriors starting pitcher Joey Hodkiewicz (Burlington, Wis./Burlington) held the Eagles hitless for 4.2 innings before running into trouble with two outs in the fifth. The next six hitters reached base, including five singles, as BenU jumped ahead 4-3. Justin Kovalsky knocked a two-run single and Ryan Mullin and Kevin Hendricks each singled in runs in the inning.
The Warriors tied the score at 4-4 in the eighth when Mattheis singled home Connor Vredeveld (Waterloo, Wis./Lakeside Lutheran). The score remained tied until the bottom of the eighth, when the Eagles exploded for six runs on six hits, including a three-run homer by Mike Luschen, to take a 10-4 lead.
Hodkiewicz took a no-decision after allowing four runs on six hits in six frames. Josh Ruppel (Belgium, Wis./Cedar Grove-Belgium) (3-2) suffered the loss after giving up six runs in the eighth inning. Dylan Smith (1-3) threw 1.2 scoreless innings to earn the victory for BenU.
Day was 2-for-2 with two runs and two walks for the Warriors and Mattheis was 2-for-4 with two RBI. Kovalsky was 3-for-5 with three RBI and Luschen was 2-for-4 with three RBI for the Eagles.
Sunday's scheduled home doubleheader against Concordia Chicago (20-2, 8-0 NACC) has been postponed due to weather. The Warriors and Cougars will make-up their two conference games Wednesday, April 16 with first pitch at 1 p.m. at Neumann Family Field.
