The Dominican University baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Maranatha Baptist University Sabrecats on Thursday evening at Schaumburg Boomers Stadium, taking game one 5-3 behind five solid innings on the mound from freshman Kanoa Ikeda-Flynn before pushing across 15 runs in a 15-1 victory in game two.
 
Ikeda-Flynn got his second career start in game one, surrendering just one unearned run over five innings while limiting the Sabrecats to just four hits.  The left-hander issued three walks while striking out three.  The win was the first of the season for the rookie.
 
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the second, Mike Buckley evened the game at 1-1 with an RBI single.  Later in the frame, a Sabrecats' error gave Dominican the lead before Brian Costello plated Buckley for a 3-1 lead after two on a sacrifice fly.
 
The Stars added some much needed insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth on back-to-back RBI singles by Matt Segovia and Mike Piotrowski.
 
The runs proved huge for Dominican as Maranatha scored twice in the top of the seventh, loading the bases before a sac fly and ground out to short pulled the Sabrecats within 5-3 before right-hander Daniel Supple got the final out.
 
Offensively, Segovia, Piotrowski and Joe Kukla had two singles apiece.
 
In game two, the Stars scored early and often, pounding out 12 hits and taking advantage of four Maranatha errors.  Freshman Frankie Sessa knocked in four runs, going 4-for-5 with a double while Segovia and Kukla picked up two more hits apiece.  Roque Bruno collected his second hit of the season, a line drive home run that left the yard in left in the bottom of the fifth.
 
On the mound, rookie Austin Michals limited the Sabrecats to just two hits and two walks over four innings to pick up his first win of the season.  The right-hander punched out three in the winning effort.
 
With the wins, the Stars improve to 10-17 on the season with a return to Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) play on deck for this weekend.  On Saturday, the Stars host the Benedictine University Eagles for a noon doubleheader at Boomers Stadium before the Stars hit Division Street on Sunday to take on the Concordia University Chicago Cougars in the River Forest Rivalry Series.