GAME STATS 1 | GAME STATS 2 PICTURED ABOVE (L-R): Austin Driggers and Trey Martin.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

Bloomington, Ill. - The Wheaton College baseball team split a doubleheader at Illinois Wesleyan University on Saturday, winning game one 8-6 and losing game two 12-2.

The Thunder are now 11-8 on the year and 1-2 in the CCIW. The Titans are 12-5 overall and 2-1 in conference.

In game one, Wheaton was the first to score thanks to Drew Golz's RBI single in the fourth inning. The Thunder then made it 3-0 in the sixth by loading the bases and scoring on a sacrifice fly by Trey Martin and a single by Austin Driggers.

Meanwhile, Golz kept IWU's offense in check on the mound. The senior lefty was effective throughout the game and didn't give up a run until the bottom of the sixth.

The Thunder bats gave Golz some more support in the eighth inning. Driggers plated Martin with RBI double to left field. Alex MaLossi followed up by knocking in Driggers with a single to push the lead to 5-1. The Titans hung around, however, scoring an unearned run in the eighth thanks to two errors.

Martin gave Wheaton some cushion by blasing a three-run homer in ninth to make it 8-2. It turned out to be very necessary.  The hosts rallied once again, this time for four runs in the bottom of the ninth on four singles and an error. But Golz finished off the game and stranded the tying run on base.

Wheaton ended up with 14 hits but had 18 left on base. Martin 1-for-3 with his team-best seventh homer and four RBI. Driggers knocked in a pair of runs while going 2-for-5. Golz, Justin Swider, MaLossi and John Jensen-Johnson all had two hits each.

Golz (PICTURED RIGHT) got the win on the mound to improve to 5-0 on the year. He threw his fourth complete game of the year, scattering eight hits with five earned runs, three walks and one strikeout.

Driggers began game two by driving in a run to put Wheaton up 1-0. But IWU ended up scoring three in the first inning on four hits and two errors.

The Thunder got back on the board in the third and were down 5-2 following Martin's RBI double. The Titans responded by scoring in six of the seven innings played and finished off a shortened game 12-2.

Wheaton's offense collected 12 hits and the defense committed three errors. Martin, Driggers, Swider, Taylor Howe, Johnson all had two hits each.

Miles Veth (0-3) took the loss as the starting pitcher, lasting 3-2/3 innings with nine hits, four earned runs, one walk and one strikeout.

The Thunder continues its CCIW schedule with a 1 PM doubleheader on April 3 at Elmhurst College.