The Dominican University baseball team split a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) series with the Concordia University Wisconsin Falcons on Saturday evening at Schaumburg Boomers Stadium, taking game one 5-3 behind a complete-game, 14-strikeout effort from Colin Janison before dropping game two 5-2. With the split, the Stars improve to 14-18 overall and 3-13 in league play.
 
Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning of game one, the Stars loaded the bases on a walk, hit-by-pitch and bunt single. After a passed ball allowed the tying run to score, Frankie Sessa roped a two-run double for what proved to be the game-winning hit.
 
Janison then went out and finished off the complete-game effort, surrendering just three hits and four base runners after Sessa gave the senior back the lead. After a walk and a single in the top of the eighth, Janison got Eric Paz to roll into an inning-ending double play before working around a leadoff single in the top of the ninth, striking out the final two hitters of the game for his 13^th and 14^th punchouts of the game and 199^th and 200^th strikeouts of his career.
 
Picking up the win, Janison improved to 4-3 on the season. The right-hander allowed three runs on ten his and two walks.
 
Offensively, the Stars collected seven hits. Matt Segovia and Nick Roeper picked up two hits apiece while Sessa drove in three runs while going 1-for-3 with a two-run double and bases-loaded walk.
 
Game two saw the Stars jump out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Roeper plated Segovia with a single up the middle.  Concordia Wisconsin answered with two runs off of Tyler Brown in the top of the fourth.  The Stars tied the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the inning when Nate Natividad plated Mike Buckley with a sacrifice fly before Concordia Wisconsin chased Brown from the game with another two runs to open a 4-2 lead.
 
The Falcons added an insurance run in the top of the eighth while Dominican managed just three runners from the bottom of the fifth on and stranded ten runners all game.
 
"Game one was one of the more complete games we played in a while," said Steve Hardman, the Stars' head baseball coach. "Colin was a workhorse on the mound and Frankie had a huge two-RBI hit late in the game to seal it. In game two, we battled to get runners on but could not find ways to get them in."
 
The Stars will hit the road on Sunday, traveling to Lakeland University for a conference doubleheader with the Muskies. First pitch is slated for 12:00 p.m.