Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CAROL STREAM, Ill. – The Edgewood College baseball team knocked out 17 hits on the day, but could not keep the opposition from scoring and fell in a pair. The Eagles dropped a 6-4 contest to St. Mary's (Minn.) before Wheaton College downed Edgewood College 9-6. 

In the day's opening game against St. Mary's (Minn.) (4-9), the Eagles found themselves in an early hole. The Cardinals scored three unearned runs off Eagle starter Taylor Hillmann in the top of the first inning after a bases-clearing double by Kevin Miley. Edgewood College (4-9) responded immediately with three runs of their own on three hits in the bottom of the first inning. Zack Creekmore drove in a run with an RBI single, and Ryan O'Dell and Brad Clark also pushed runners across.

However, the Cardinals tacked on two more unearned runs  in the second inning, and another score in the third for a 6-3 lead. Edgewood College had a chance to tie the game in the eighth, but only mustered a Clark RBI single after getting their first two runners on base.

Creekmore was the only Eagle with two hits in the first game, while Clark had a pair of runs batted in. Hillmann went three innings and allowed just one earned run. Brock McGinn pitched the fourth inning, and AJ Verhage struck out three batters over the final five innings.

Edgewood College faced a similar situation in game two as Wheaton notched a run in the first inning to put the Eagles in an early 1-0 deficit. Sean Thompson singled over Brad Clark who walked then scored on a throwing error to even it up at 1-1. After the Thunder plated another in the second, the Eagles took a 4-2 lead, scoring three runs on two hits and three Wheaton errors.

The Thunder jumped on Busse early in the third scoring a run before the Eagles got an out. Dan Hoppel came on in relief and but Wheaton tacked on three more for a 6-4 advantage. After a 1-2-3 Edgewood College fourth, Wheaton took scored another in the fourth. Alex Jaskulski ripped an RBI double in the fifth to plate Appino, but the Eagles left a pair stranded. The Thunder added two more in the seventh and despite a run for Edgewood College in the ninth, the Eagles dug too deep of a hole to climb out of.

Appino, Jaskulski, and Thompson each notched two hits as Edgewood College collected 11 as a team but Wheaton pounded out 16 to take the 9-6 win.

Edgewood College will face UW-Milwaukee on Wednesday before diving into their NACC schedule. The Eagles game against the Division I Panthers will be at 3:00 pm at Henry Aaron Field in Milwaukee.