NAPERVILLE, Ill. - The Carroll University baseball team was swept by North Central College in a College Conference of Illinois-Wisconsin doubleheader at Zimmerman Stadium on Saturday afternoon, losing the opener 11-1 and the second game 11-3.
Carroll came into the challenging matchup of fierce league rivals riding the momentum of winning nine of its last 12 games but dropped to 6-3 in the highly contested conference standings and 13-12 overall.
North Central, which entered the series hovering just outside of the d3baseball.com Top 25 and advanced to the CCIW Tournament championship game last year, improved to 5-5 in conference and 16-9 overall.

GAME 1
Benton Holly went 2-for-3 and scored on a fielder's choice in the top of the second inning for Carroll, which generated a seven-hit offensive attack but stranded seven baserunners.
Nick Herzog also contributed two hits for the Pioneers.
North Central scored six runs on six hits in what became a decisive bottom of the second.
Carroll utilized four pitchers in the battle including starter Brett Buzzelli, Joey Rivera, Andy Buskohl and Conor Dunlavy.
Buzzelli, a junior right-hander from Homer Glen, Ill., took the loss by allowing nine earned runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and two walks through five complete innings.

GAME 2
Bennet Becker went 2-for-3 and drove in a run to pace a six-hit attack in the second game for Carroll, which stranded eight baserunners.
North Central scored nine unanswered runs over the course of the first three innings, highlighted by five in the momentum-shifting first to pull away.
Carroll scored two runs on two hits to trim the deficit to 9-2 in the top of the fourth, including an RBI single to center field by Thomas Ward and run-scoring double to left-center field by Holly.
Becker drove in the Pioneers' final run on an RBI single to left field in the sixth.
The Pioneers used four pitchers including starter Scotty Starovich, Brady LaMack, Erik Jaschinski and Dunlavy.
Starovich, a senior left-hander from Pleasant Prairie, Wis., took the loss by yielding four earned runs on 11 hits with one strikeout and one walk in two innings of work.