Box Score 1 | Box Score 2  BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Augustana dropped both ends of Saturday's double header at Illinois Wesleyan, falling 8-4 in the opener and 11-8 in the night cap. The Vikings slipped to 15-8 on the season and 7-4 in the CCIW. The Titans improved to 16-8 overall and 10-1 in the conference.
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 8, AUGUSTANA 4
 
A first-inning bout of wildness by starter Seth Davis (Mullen HS, Aurora, Colo.) cost the Vikings in the opener. After senior Grant Stewart (Sterling HS, Sterling, Ill.) staked him to a 2-0 lead with a two-run homer in the top of the frame, Davis retired the first two Titans in the bottom half. Bobby Czarnowksi's two-out single up the middle looked harmless enough at the time, but was followed by four straight base-on-balls which tied things at 2-2. IWU's Sam Santa Maria then singled in a pair of runs to put the hosts up 4-2. Davis picked Santa Maria off first to end the inning.
 
Danny Fifer's (Lincoln-Way West HS, New Lenox, Ill.) solo homer to left in the third got the Vikings to within 4-3, but a single, a walk and a wild pitch led to an Illinois Wesleyan run in the bottom of the fourth and Pat Mollo's two-run homer in the fifth made it 7-3 Titans.
 
Czarnowski had an RBI single off reliever Darwin Townsend (Libertyville HS, Libertyville, Ill.) in the bottom of the sixth and Stewart and junior Nick Tenerelli (Downers Grove South HS, Downers Grove, Ill.) had back-to-back doubles in the top of the eighth to account for the game's final run.
 
Stewart finished the game 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two driven in. Tenerelli was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Davis fanned 10 in five innings, but gave up five hits, five walks and seven runs to incur his first loss of the season in four decisions. Titan starter Jeff Johnson went seven innings to pick up the win, with Dan Truesdale earning the save.
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 11, AUGUSTANA 8
 
Illinois Wesleyan scored eight runs in the seventh and eighth innings of the night cap to come from behind for an 11-8 victory.
 
The Vikings led 7-0 after four and a half innings. Singles by senior Jacob Van Duyne (Wilmington HS, Wilmington, Ill.) and Fifer produced the game's first run in the top of the first. Tenerelli led off the second with his first career home run and singles by junior Kyle Lenihan (Romeoville HS, Romeoville, Ill.) and sophomores Trace Gingerich (Sherrard HS, Sherrard, Ill.) and Alex Fluehr (Harlem HS, Loves Park, Ill.) made it 3-0 Vikings, with Fluehr's hit plating Gingerich.
 
Van Duyne and sophomore Jeff Prior (Rock Canyon HS, Lone Tree, Colo.) started the fifth with back-to-back singles. Van Duyne came around to score a Fifer ground out and Stewart singled up the middle to score Prior and put Augustana on top 5-0. One out later, Lenihan hit a two-run homer to left for a 7-0 Viking lead.
 
Augustana starter Chris Sauer (Rock Canyon HS, Littleton, Colo.) had cruised through the first four innings, allowing just one hit and striking out five, but the Titans got to him for three runs in the bottom of the fifth.
 
Sauer looked like he was back on track, retiring IWU in order in the sixth, but Adam Glogovsky made it 7-4 with a leadoff homer in the seventh. An error and two more singles plated another run and junior Kevin Hodgman (Neuqua Valley HS, Naperville, Ill.) was summoned from the bullpen. A walk, a wild pitch and another error allowed two more runs to score to tie it up and a Jared Juskiewicz RBI single gave the Titans an 8-7 lead. Freshman Cooper SantAmour came on in relief and Tenerelli threw out Juskiewicz attempting to steal to end the inning.
 
Stewart singled in Van Duyne to tie it in the top of the eighth, but back-to-back homers by Derek Idstein and Czarnowksi in the bottom half spelled the difference.
 
John Munyon retired the Vikings in order in the ninth to pick up the win. SantAmour suffered his second loss in three decisions. Van Duyne, Stewart and Lenihan each had three of Augustana's 19 hits, with Prior, Fifer, Gingerich and junior Jacques Camalick (Hinsdale Central HS, Burr Ridge, Ill.) getting two each. Van Duyne scored three times and Fifer, Stewart and Lenihan each knocked in a pair.