Baseball Overwhelms Lincoln To Sweep Sunday CCAC Twinbill

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Roosevelt University baseball team returned to action at Ozinga Field on Sunday, March 21, sweeping a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader from Lincoln (Ill.) in convincing fashion behind 28 runs of offense and stellar starting pitching.

The Lakers rode three home runs, a strong complete-game performance by starter Noah Mathias and a 13-hit barrage to defeat the Lynx handily in the opener, 18-2. In the nightcap, Roosevelt needed a few more innings to get the offense going, but a five-run fourth ignited by Matt Donahue's go-ahead triple with the bases loaded set the stage for eight runs across the fourth and fifth innings in support of a strong start by Jordan Mikolajewski as the Lakers clinched a doubleheader sweep with a 10-2 win.

Aaron Cook homered, drove in five runs and finished with six hits in eight at-bats during a tremendous showing at the dish across both games by the senior from Hammond, Ind. Cook's offensive surge paced Roosevelt's hit parade, as the Lakers churned out 13 hits in each game.

Mathias and Mikolajewski allowed just one earned run apiece across 13.0 innings pitched by the Lakers' starters on Sunday.

GAME 1 DETAILS

Score: Roosevelt 3 4 0 5 0 6 0 18 13 1

Lincoln 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2

W: Mathias L: Deright

Records: Roosevelt 2-2, 1-1 CCAC // Lincoln 0-11, 0-2 CCAC

Location: Ozinga Field | Crestwood, Ill.

THE NUMBERS

• Aaron Cook homered, going 2-for-4 with four RBI
• Joshua Stivers drove in three runs during a 3-for-4 showing
• Andrew Olszewski went 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs driven in
• Daniel Gutierrez homered as Roosevelt went yard three times
• Noah Mathias went the distance, scattering five hits and allowing just one earned run
• Tyler Suchy went 2-for-3 with two runs scored

NEWS & NOTES

• Roosevelt jumped out to a 7-0 lead thanks to a three-run first and a four-run second
• Cook hit a three-run homer during a five-run fourth to pile on the offense
• Olszewski and Gutierrez hit back-to-back homers in the sixth to put the game well out of reach
• Mathias kept the Lynx scoreless in the final five frames
• Roosevelt was considered the visiting team in game one and batted first as Lincoln was unable to host the doubleheader on Saturday to open the series

GAME 2 DETAILS

Score: Lincoln 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 7 1

Roosevelt 1 0 0 5 3 0 1 0 X 10 13 2

W: Mikolajewski L: Nick

Records: Roosevelt 3-2, 2-1 CCAC // Lincoln 0-12, 0-3 CCAC

Location: Ozinga Field | Crestwood, Ill.

THE NUMBERS

• Aaron Cook went 4-for-4 with an RBI triple
• Matt Donahue had three RBI on one swing with his three-run three-bagger
• Daniel Gutierrez scored twice and drove in a run
• Andrew Rodriguez drove in a run and scored twice
• Starter Jordan Mikolajewski struck out seven across six innings for the victory

NEWS & NOTES

• Matt Donahue broke a 1-1 tie with a bases-clearing three-run triple in the fourth
• Daniel Gutierrez drove in Donahue in the next at-bat and eventually scored himself on Tyler Suchy's double to make it a five-run fourth
• Roosevelt tacked on three more in the fifth on RBI extra-bases hits by Andrew Rodriguez and Aaron Cook and a wild pitch that scored Diego Blanco
• Just like Sunday's opening contest, Gutierrez led off the first with a walk to eventually score the game's first run
• Mikolajewski put up zeroes in five of his six innings, allowing just one earned run
• Reliever Jarod Galanos induced an inning-ending lineout with the bases loaded with Lynx in the seventh

NEXT UP

Roosevelt concludes the three-game series against Lincoln with a single nine-inning game in Lincoln, Ill. on Monday, March 22 at 1:00 p.m.