Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Bourbonnais, Ill. – Senior infielder Patrick Doran (Evergreen Park, Ill./NC Central/DuPage/South Suburban/Evergreen Park) highlighted a 12-run top of the 7th in game one with a three-run home run to help guide the Saint Xavier University baseball team (17-20/9-7 CCAC) to a 16-6 victory over Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.) in game one of their Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at Watson Field in Bourbonnais, Ill. Duran would also club a three-run home run in game two, however SXU lost by a score of 8-6. In the first game, the Cougars entered the top of the 7th trailing 6-4 and would send 10 batters to the plate and score seven runs before recording an out.

Game One:

• Senior infielder Darren Zarrillo (Grapevine, Texas/Frank Phillips/Grapevine) was 3-for-5 with three RBI, two runs scored, a double and a stolen base.
• Duran finished 1-for-3 and added a walk.
• Senior designated hitter Joe Rycerz (Schererville, Ind./Andrean) went 2-for-2 with two RBI, two runs, a home run and a sacrifice fly.
• Senior infielder Declan Smyth (Evergreen Park, Ill./North Central/Evergreen Park) collected two hits in five at-bats with three runs scored, two RBI and a walk.
• Sophomore outfielder Kevin Dowling (Chicago, Ill./Murray State/Mount Carmel) was 2-for-3 with two runs, a triple and an RBI.
• Sophomore pitcher Nico Saldias (Ajax, Ontario/Connors State/Pickering) made the start and lasted 3.1 innings, allowing five hits, five runs (four earned), four walks and had four strikeouts.
• Freshman pitcher Heath Mann (Lewis Center, Ohio/Olentangy Orange) threw 2.2 innings of relief to earn his first collegiate victory (1-0). He gave up two hits, one run, one walk and recorded one strikeout.
• Junior pitcher Jimmy Fairley (Lake in the Hills, Ill./Rock Valley/Huntley) pitched the bottom of the 7^th and tallied a walk and a strikeout.
• Saint Xavier jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the 1^st on a sac fly off the bat of Rycerz and a two-run double to the gap in left center by Zarrillo.
• The Tigers responded with an RBI single and scored on an error in the bottom of the 1^st to make it a one-run game.
• ONU tied the game in the bottom of the 2^nd on a solo home run.
• Rycerz put the Cougars back up, 4-3, with a solo home run of his own in the top of the 3^rd.
• Olivet Nazarene retied the game in the bottom half of the inning on a sacrifice fly. They would hit another sac fly in the bottom of the 4^th and add an RBI base hit in the bottom of the 6^th.
• Smyth cut the deficit to 6-5 with an RBI single to start the rally in the top of the 7^th. Zarrillo tied the game with an RBI single to leftfield and freshman catcher Aaron Orzech (Shorewood, Ill./Crossroads Christian Academy) put SXU ahead 8-6 with a two-run base hit. Three batters would all be hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded and junior pinch hitter Trevor Hausherr (Oak Forest, Ill./Oak Forest) extended the lead with a sacrifice fly. Smyth picked up another RBI, this time off an error, and Duran would belt a three-run home run to cap the scoring.

Game Two:

• Junior outfielder Evan Orzech (Shorewood, Ill./Crossroads Christian Academy) drove in a pair of runs and went 1-for-4 with a run scored.
• Rycerz finished 2-for-4 with a double and a run.
• Junior pitcher Julian Vargas (Tinley Park, Ill./Tinley Park) took the mound in game two and tossed 5.0 innings, surrendering eight hits, three runs and walking two batters.
• Sophomore Tommy Dougherty (Alsip, Ill./South Suburban/Shepard) pitcher 0.1 innings with three hits, two runs and a walk.
• Junior Tzu-Chun Yen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan/Ohlone/Meiho) took the loss (2-1) after 2.0 innings of relief with three hits, three runs, a walk and three strikeouts.
• Sophomore pitcher Noah Scott (Chesterton, Ind./Chesterton) recorded the final two outs of the bottom of the 8^th with two hits allowed and a strikeout.
• Duran launched his second three-run home run of the day in the top of the 2^nd to give SXU the early lead.
• The Tigers homered in the bottom of the 3^rd to get on the board.
• Evan Orzech lined a two-run single back up the middle in the top of the 5^th and Smyth drove in a run on a groundout to put Saint Xavier ahead 6-1.
• ONU scored twice in the bottom of the 5^th on a pair of RBI singles.
• A balk and an RBI triple in the bottom of the 6^th made it a one-run game.
• Olivet Nazarene tied the game in the bottom of the 7^th with a leadoff home run. They would take the lead for good in the bottom of the 8^th with an RBI double that chased Yen and the Tigers would add a run on an RBI single.

Saint Xavier (17-20/9-7 CCAC) welcomes Judson Univesity (Ill.) to Richard R. Ferrell Memorial Field on Friday, April 14. The nine-inning contest in slated to begin at 3:00 pm.