The Dominican University baseball team closed out the 2015 campaign salvaging a split in a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) series with the Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors behind a complete-game, 4-1 victory in game two from junior right-hander Quinlan Milne Rojek (Minneapolis, Minn.).
 
The split pushes the Stars to 14-25 to close out the season with Dominican going 8-12 in NACC play, missing out on the 2015 NACC Baseball Tournament.
 
Game One:  Wisconsin Lutheran 14, Dominican 4
 
The Warriors broke open a 4-2 game in the top of the eighth, plating four runs to open an 8-2 lead.  The big blow in the inning was a double by Jake Grollo with the bases loaded.  Dominican's Daniel Supple (Albany, Calif.) got Grollo to hit a bouncing ball towards Joe Lyons (Chicago Ridge, III.) at second base but what could have been an inning-ending double play ball turned into a base-clearing double when the ball hit the lip of the infield grass and hopped eight feet in the air and over the head of Lyons.
 
The Warriors tacked on six more runs in the top of the ninth before the Stars loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth, plating two runs to end the game.
 
Chance Emlund (Chicago, III.) took the loss on the mound for the Stars.  Emlund finishes his junior season 3-6, allowing six runs on nine hits over seven-plus innings.
 
Offensively, the Stars managed just five hits off of Wisconsin Lutheran's Jaime Paumen who picked up the complete game win.  Dominican had three hits in a two-run first but managed just two hits over the final eight innings.
 
Game Two:  Dominican 4, Wisconsin Lutheran 1
 
Milne Rojek tossed 121 pitches in his final outing of the season, allowing just one run on five hits and walk while striking out five.  The junior moved to 2-1 on the season in five starts with a 2.35 earned run average.
 
Dominican strung together four hits in the bottom of the fourth to open a 3-0 lead.  Cody Schuster (Las Vegas, Nev.) started the rally with a one-out double to the gap in right center.  After a double to the wall in left by Lucas McKinney (Arvada, Colo.), Schuster scored on a wild pitch.  Ryan DiCristofano (Streamwood, III.) then plated McKinney with a triple to right center.  DiCristofano then scored when Kevin Schwer (Evergreen Park, III.) found the same gap in right center for an RBI double.
 
The Stars added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Tim Varallo (Chicago, III.) tallied a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded to score McKinney.
 
Milne Rojek carried a shutout into the top of the ninth before a Dominican miscue in the field allowed an unearned run to score for the Warriors.  However, Milne Rojek regrouped and left the bases loaded when he got Grollo to fly out to centerfield.
 
The Stars picked up ten hits in the season finale, including two apiece for DiCristofano, Schwer and Nathaniel Natividad (Oak Lawn, III.).