The Dominican University baseball team pounded out 28 hits and scored 22 runs, sweeping a doubleheader from the Lakeland College Muskies on Monday afternoon at Schaumburg Boomers Stadium. With the wins, the Stars improve to 8-12 overall and 5-3 in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference.
The Stars will entertain the IIT Scarlett Hawks on Thursday at Schaumburg Boomers Stadium. The non-conference tilt is slated for a 6:00 p.m. first pitch.
Game One: Dominican 12, Lakeland 0 (7 Inn.) The Stars scored five runs with two outs in the bottom of the first to stake starting pitcher
Daniel Supple (Albany, Calif.) to a 5-0 lead and the sophomore right-hander to just six hits over six innings as the Stars blanked the Muskies in seven innings.
Colin Janison (Las Vegas, Nev.) sparked the two-out rally in the first, yanking a single to left for the first of three hits for the freshman in the game, extending his hitting streak to 19 games to start the season.
Janison and
Quinlan Milne Rojek (Minneapolis, Minn.) each finished 3-for-4 at the plate and scored two runs apiece while
Joe Lyons (Chicago Ridge, III.),
Quentin Becquey (St. Julien Le Faucon, France) and
Richie Green (Chicago, III.) collected two hits apiece with Lyons driving in four runs in the winning effort.
Game Two: Dominican 10, Lakeland 0 (7 Inn.) Leading 1-0 after three innings, Dominican plated four runs in the fourth.
Joe Kukla (Chicago, III.) sparked the Stars' rally with a bases loaded double to score Becquey and Lyons. After a wild pitch pushed across another run, Kukla came in on a sacrifice fly by Milne Rojek. The Stars then effectively put the game away with a three-run fifth.
Janison, who extended his hitting streak to 20 games with a single in the bottom of the first, picked up his second win on the mound, moving to 2-2 on the season as he tossed the complete-game shutout. Janison scattered five hits over seven innings, striking out three without issuing a walk.
Offensively, Kukla was a perfect 3-for-3 with a double and two runs batted in while scoring two runs himself.
Cody Schuster (Las Vegas, Nev.), Janison and Becquey picked up two hits apiece in the winning effort.