CHICAGO, Ill. (WLCSports.com) - Wisconsin Lutheran College suffered a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference sweep to Illinois Tech on Saturday at Ed Glancy Field. The Warriors were walked-off by the Scarlet Hawks 4-3 in game one, before falling 10-2 in game two.
IIT (9-12, 5-3 NACC) scored an early run in the bottom of the first off two hits to take an early 1-0 lead. The score stayed that way until the top of the fifth when freshman
Aiden Montgomery (St. Louis, Mo.) tied it up with a solo homerun, the first of his career. Junior
Noah Zaccanti (Geneva, Ill.) added a two-run blast of his own, his first of the season, in the top of the sixth to give WLC (4-17, 0-8 NACC) a 3-1 lead. A solo shot from Illinois Tech cut Wisconsin Lutheran's advantage to one heading to the seventh. The Scarlet Hawks walked it off with a one-out, two-RBI single to take the first game of the doubleheader, 4-3.Â
Montgomery, Zaccanti, sophomore
Tim Frerking (Oconomowoc, Wis.) and juniors
Elijah Shevey (Muskego, Wis.) and
Nolan Hodgins (Caledonia, Wis.) each tallied a hit for the Warriors. Zaccanti drove in two runs and Montgomery drove in the other. Senior
Gabe Knight (Brighton, Mich.) threw 6.0 innings, giving up two runs on four hits while tallying three strikeouts in the loss.
IIT plated runs in its first three at-bats, giving them a 3-0 lead after three innings. Freshman
Ian Rintelman (Muskego, Wis.) drove in two runs for WLC with a two-out, two-run single in the top of the fourth, scoring sophomores
Eli Michaelis (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and
Lucas Oswald (Muskego, Wis.). Illinois Tech responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth. A grand slam in the bottom of the seventh and another run in the bottom of the eighth put the game out of reach for Wisconsin Lutheran as it fell 10-2.
Michaelis led the Warriors with two hits and four other WLC players tallied one hit each. Rintelman recorded two RBI.
Wisconsin Lutheran returns home for a NACC doubleheader against Rockford (7-14, 3-4 NACC) on Monday. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. at Neumann Family Field. Live coverage links can be found at WLCSports.com.
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