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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Augustana defeated Cabrini 10-2 in Thursday's doubleheader opener, but let a 5-2, seventh-inning lead slip away in the nightcap, falling to the Cavaliers 6-5. Coach Greg Wallace's club is 5-2 on the season heading into a Friday, March 2 contest against St. Mary's (Minn.). First pitch at Lake Myrtle Park #7 is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. EST.
 
AUGUSTANA 10, CABRINI 2
 
The Vikings battered three Cabrini pitchers for 12 hits in game one. Junior Gunnar Haskins (Alleman HS, Moline, Ill.) paced the attack with two doubles and three RBI. Senior Carter Amundsen (Sheboygan South HS, Sheboygan, Wis.) and junior Ryan Kairis (Marist HS, Chicago, Ill.) each had two hits and two runs scored and sophomore Jake Huber (Lockport HS, Homer Glen, Ill.) added a pair of hits as well.
 
Haskins's RBI double keyed a two-run Augustana first and the Vikings added a pair in the second. Junior Nick Mosele (University HS, Bloomington, Ill.) had a leadoff single and eventually scored on a Cavalier error. Kairis' RBI grounder made it 4-0 Augustana after an inning and a half.
 
Haskins' two-run double keyed a five-run outburst in the fourth. The first run scored on a bases-loaded walk to junior Mike Avella (Crystal Lake South HS, Crystal Lake, Ill.). Haskins' two-bagger knocked in Kairis and Amundsen, who had both singled. Huber added run-scoring single and John Moraksi (Kewanee HS, Kewanee, Ill.) an RBI fielder's choice in the frame.
 
Moraski drew a leadoff walk in the top of the sixth and scored Augustana's final run.
 
Viking starter Chris Refka (Palatine HS, Palatine, Ill.) cruised through the first six innings before Shaun Stackhouse touched him for a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the seventh. Freshman Josh Chamberlain (Legacy HS, Thornton, Colo.) came out of the pen to get the final out.
 
Refka scattered eight hits, walked one and fanned five in 6 2/3 innings. He got the win to improve to 2-0 on the season. Cabrini starter Ray Lutick lasted three innings and suffered the loss.
 
CABRINI 6, AUGUSTANA 5
 
Augustana led 5-2 going to the final inning of game two. Senior Mitch Malone (Minooka HS, Minooka, Ill.) had pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth and gave way to freshman Alec Michaelson (Willowbrook HS, Lombard, Ill.) to start the seventh.
 
Alex De Giudice led off with a home run and Michaelson hit Brett Kuchera. John Lineborn singled Kuchera to third, prompting Wallace to call on sophomore reliever Travis Gates (Prospect HS, Mt. Prospect, Ill.). Gates uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Kuchera to score to make it 5-4, but then fanned Justin Henry. After another walk, Chamberlain came on in relief of Gates and Stackhouse delivered a two-run single to put the Cavaliers on top. Chamberlain retired Steven Priest to end the inning and keep it a one-run game.
 
Amundsen drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh and Kairis sacrificed him to second. However, Chris Huyette coaxed a pair of flyouts to end the game.
 
After Cabrini got two runs off Viking starter Mike Powers (Benet Academy, Westmont, Ill.) in the top of the first, Augustana tied it with two in the fourth and jumped in front with three in the fifth. The Vikings' first run came when Huber was hit by a Jake Dohar pitch with the bases loaded and a Moraski sacrifice fly plated the tying run. In the fifth, Avella's RBI single put Augustana on top and Haskins' sacrifice fly delivered another run.
 
Huyette threw the last 3 2/3 innings to pick up the win. Gates (0-1) took the loss.
 
Amundsen and Kairis each had two hits and Kairis scored twice. De Giudice went 3-for-4 with two RBI to lead the Cavalier attack.