Box Score The Dominican University baseball team dropped their third straight game on Thursday, falling to the Loras College Duhawks, 5-1 in a non-conference matchup for the Stars.  The Stars committed four errors leading to three unearned runs for the Duhawks while stranding nine runners on base.
 
In his third start of the season, Quinlan Milne Rojek (Minneapolis, Minn.) surrendered five runs, three earned, over seven innings.  The Stars' right-hander scattered 11 hits while walking none and striking out two.  Milne Rojek took the loss to fall to 1-2 on the season.
 
Both teams pitched into and out of trouble in the early innings.  The Stars put runners at the corners in the bottom of the first as Cody Schuster (Las Vegas, Nev.) lined a single to center to extend his current hitting streak to 22 games.  Loras starting pitcher Matt Kass escaped the first, stranding both runners, as he got Quentin Becquey (St. Julien Le Faucon, France) to fly out to right.
 
Loras loaded the bases with one out in the top of the second but Milne Rojek escaped unscathed, striking out Lucas Jacque before retiring the side with a groundball to second.
 
In the Dominican third, the Stars put runners at second and third after a two-out double by Schuster but Kass again escaped damage, getting another pop out as Dominican stranded two more runners, leaving five on base through the first three innings.
 
The Duhawks broke through in the fourth, scoring an unearned run on Nick Battalini's single up the middle.  Loras missed what could have been a big inning as Battalini was gunned down trying to steal second.
 
Loras plated another run in the sixth on an RBI double by Battalini with one out that scored Eric DeSousa who singled to start the frame.  After a wild pitch, Milne Rojek escaped further damage, getting a ground ball to Thomas Smith (Lockport, Ill.) with the infield pulled in and then a flyout to center.
 
The Duhawks tacked on three more in the seventh, including a two –run double by Patrick Walsh, to take a 5-0 lead and end Milne Rojek's day.
 
The Dominican offense finally broke through in the bottom of the eighth, capitalizing on a Loras error that allowed Joe Krasny (Berwyn, Ill.) to score but that's how the game would end.
 
Krasny and Schuster cranked out three hits apiece with one double for Krasny and two for Schuster.  The Stars' three and four hitters are now hitting .414 and .402 respectively on the season.
 
The Stars, now 17-12 on the season, take on the third-ranked Concordia University Chicago Cougars on Saturday, traveling down Division Street for a noon doubleheader.