WAUKESHA, Wis. - The Carroll University baseball team collected a CCIW sweep on Saturday afternoon, defeating Elmhurst University 8-3 and 10-6, respectively. The Pioneer bats got hot and stayed hot all day, tallying 28 hits, 10 of which went for extra-base hits. Carroll (8-13, 3-3 CCIW) pushed their win streak to three games and currently sit in fifth place in the CCIW. 

 
GAME 1 

Brett Buzzelli had a very strong senior day showing on the mound, going seven full innings, striking out five batters while only walking one. Lane Scott went 2-for-3 with three RBI and senior Mason Hege was close behind, going 2-for-4 with two RBI. Gabe Lee led the Pioneers in runs scored with two, including a solo shot over the left field fence in the fourth inning. 
 

The first two-and-a-half innings went by in a flash as both teams had seven total batters through the first two frames, and Buzzelli retired the side in the top of the third. The Pioneer bats erupted in the third inning, scoring five runs on four hits. They tacked on two more in the fourth, a leadoff homer from Lee and a Scott RBI single with two outs, driving in Eddie Synek. Carroll scored one more time in the sixth, when Joey Appino tripled and was driven in on a single from Scott. Both teams went quiet for a few innings from there. 
 
Elmhurst (5-15, 2-4) showed some fight in the bottom of the ninth, scoring three runs, but it was too little too late as Owen Ripley closed the door on any Bluejay hopes of a comeback. 
 
Carroll utilized three pitchers, including starter Brett Buzzelli, Joey Rivera, and Owen Ripley. The trio combined for nine strikeouts, giving up three earned runs and walking three batters. 
 
 
GAME 2 
Lane Scott went 4-for-5 with one RBI. The Pioneers generated six multi-base hits in game two, highlighted by solo homers from Lee and Synek and a three-run shot to right field that was the go-ahead run by Anthony Tado in the seventh inning. 
 
Both teams put up crooked numbers right out the gate as the Bluejays scored two and the Pioneers responded by knocking in four runs in the first inning. Elmhurst continued building momentum, tacking on four more runs over the next two innings, finding the Pioneers at a deficit for the first time on the day.The Pios chipped away at the lead in the fifth, when Synek homered, a solo shot. 

Carroll made their statement in the bottom of the seventh. With runners on first and second, Anthony Tado came in to pinch hit. In a form of poetic justice, Anthony Tado launched the ball over the right field fence, taking advantage of his lone opportunity and putting the Pios ahead 8-6.  

The Pioneers added two more insurance runs in the eighth, and Connor Nolen would close the game out, giving him the Senior Day save.  

Erik Jaschinski was the starting pitcher and Roman Maguire earned a victory in relief, yielding no earned runs on two hits with one strikeout and no walks through one complete inning. Connor Nolen worked two innings to close out the game, allowing zero runs on zero hits and four strikeouts as the closing pitcher. 

 
Carroll is back in action at 5 p.m. on Tuesday April 9 as they host Augustana College looking for their fourth-straight CCIW victory.