Romeoville, IL - The SBU baseball team continued their series against the #15 Lewis University Flyers on Saturday with an afternoon doubleheader that resulted in two losses for the Bearcats. This brings their record to 14-27 (7-16 GLVC) for the season.
 
Game 1: L, 11-16
Dominic Tellez scored the first run of the game on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Lane Snow in the top of the 1st inning. The Flyers quickly responded with a 9-run outburst in the bottom half of the inning. Moving to the top of the 2nd, Tellez continued his impact at the plate with a 2-run double that scored Raydley Legito and Reese Ruderman. Lewis responded again with a 4-run bottom of the 2nd to bring the score to 13-3 in favor of the Flyers. After a bases-loaded walk that scored Legito in the top of the 6th and three more runs from the Flyers, SBU went into the top of the 7th with a 12 run deficit. 
 
SBU showed tremendous fight with a 7-run top of the 7th that started with a 2-RBI single from Tellez, scoring Justice Hinsley and Sam Schmidt. Zeke Skinner then brought in Tellez and Legito on a double to right center. Next, Mel Mulholland singled in Skinner that was followed by a Marcos Franjul 2-run HR that capped SBU's comeback attempt and made the final score 11-16. 
 
Ryan McClish started on the mound and finished with the loss for the Bearcats and received relief from Conner Hammonds, Colin Whited, and Jaylon McGee. Tellez highlighted the Bearcats offensively with a 4-5 (4 RBI) stat line. 
 
Game 2: L, 2-21
Lewis started out hot at the plate, scoring runs in each of the first three innings. SBU earned their first run when Hayden Prewitt scored on a single off the bat of Dominic Tellez. Tellez stayed hot with another hit when he doubled to left center in the top of the 7th, scoring Legito. 
 
Cade Langford started on the mound and finished with the loss for SBU. A team of relievers followed him to finish out the game.
 
The Bearcats will look to end the series off on a high note on Saturday with a 12 PM afternoon game.