Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Dominican University baseball teams swept a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) doubleheader on Sunday from the Marian University Sabres at the Stars' Schaumburg Boomers Stadium, walking off in the both ends of the day-night twinbill.
 
The wins help vault the Stars (20-15, 9-9) to a tie for fourth place in the NACC standings heading into the final series of the season.  Dominican can secure its spot in the 2014 NACC six-team tournament with a series victory over the Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors on Friday in Milwaukee.  Game one of the doubleheader is scheduled for a 12:00 p.m. start.
 
Game One:  Dominican 5, Marian 4
 
Cody Schuster (Las Vegas, Nev.) roped the first of his two walkoff hits on the day with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.  Schuster turned on a first-pitch fastball, yanking it down the left field line with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.  The ball rattled along the fence just beyond the Sabres' bullpen, allowing Quinlan Milne Rojek (Minneapolis, Minn.) to come around to score from first base as the Stars won 5-4.
 
Dominican overcame a 2-0 early deficit, pushing across one run in the bottom of the second on a double down the right field line that scored Schuster who singled to open the inning.  The Stars then tacked on three runs in the bottom of the fourth to open a 4-2 lead.  Joe Krasny (Berwyn, Ill.) singled up the middle to score two with two outs after a Sabre error extended the frame.
 
Mitch McCaffery (Johnson Creek, Wis.) shook of a slow start on the mound that saw the Stars' senior right-hander surrender four hits and two runs in the top of the first.  McCaffery did get back-to-back strikeouts in the frame to leave the bases loaded.  McCaffery then cruised through the seventh, giving up just two more hits until running into trouble in the eighth.
 
In the eighth, the Sabres cut the Stars' lead in half, getting an unearned run after Ty Gellinger reached on a Dominican error to lead off the inning.  After back-to-back singles up the middle, Tony Grannis singled through the left side to score Gellinger.  McCaffery minimized the damage, pitching out a bases-loaded jam with nobody out, getting back-to-back strikeouts before getting Ryan Blise to ground out to end the threat.
 
Dominican stranded a leadoff single by Thomas Smith (Lockport, Ill.) in the bottom of the eighth allowing the Sabres to get back to work offensively and even the game in the top of the ninth.  Gellinger doubled to left to score Cole Miklavcic, evening the game at 4-4 and setting the stage for Schuster.
 
McCaffery picked up his fourth win of the season, moving to 4-4 in tossing his NACC-leading sixth complete game of the season.  McCaffery was charged with four runs, three earned, on 11 hits while walking just one and striking out nine.
 
Offensively, the Stars managed ten hits, two apiece for Schuster and Smith.
 
Game Two:  Dominican 2, Marian 1 (11 Inn.)
 
Schuster played the role of hero again in game two, this time plating Milne Rojek on a walkoff single in the bottom of the 11^th in a 2-1 win for the Stars.  This time Schuster sat on a first-pitch breaking ball, punching a liner through the left side that allowed Milne Rojek to score from second.
 
The walkoff single was just the fourth hit of the game for the Stars who didn't get their first hit until the bottom of the sixth when Tim Varallo (Chicago, Ill.) tripled to right to score Lucas McKinney (Arvada, Colo.) and give the Stars a 1-0 lead.
 
Cody Mueller (Addison, Ill.) kept his team in the game, scattering six hits over seven-plus innings and allowing just one run before being lifted in the top of the eighth.
 
Chance Emlund (Chicago, Ill.) and Ryan Kukla (Chicago, Ill.) combined to throw 3.2 shutout innings out of the Dominican bullpen.  Kukla picked up the win, allowing just one walk while working the tenth and 11^th innings on the mound for the Stars.