CRESTWOOD, Ill. – The Indiana University South Bend baseball team suffered a pair of conference losses at Roosevelt Friday, April 24. IUSB fell by scores of 3-2 and 10-6, as the Titans' record dipped to 17-20 overall and 13-9 in league play.

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Game One: RU 3, IUSB 2
Five different Titans combined for the five IUSB hits in game one. Senior Logan Young finished the game 1-for-2 with a walk and one run scored. Jordan Moore, TJ DeHerrera, Jake Vanderwoude and Colin Mack added the other hits.

Sophomore Robbie Berger and senior Matt Smith appeared on the mound for the Titans. Berger suffered the loss after delivering 5.2 innings with nine hits, three runs and six strike outs while Smith tossed the final out in relief.

Moore got the offense going in the first after ripping a two-out RBI single to right, driving in Young. After a scoreless 2.5 innings, the Lakers responded with one in the four and fifth to take the 2-1 lead after five frames.

The Lakers pushed the lead to two, 3-1, with a run in the sixth after Berger gave up a one-out home run to right field.

DeHerrera roped his second triple of the season, leading off the Titans in the top of the seventh. Bais followed with an RBI ground out to second as pinch runner Jake Dykstra scored, cutting the Laker deficit to one.

The comeback fell short with a line out to third with the tying run on second, snapping the four-game winning streak.

Game Two: RU 10, IUSB 6
A seven-inning run in the third by the Lakers pushed Roosevelt to a 10-6 victory in the night cap of the Saturday doubleheader.

IU South Bend scattered its 16th double-digit hit game of the season with 12 after the loss. Moore, DeHerrera, Mack and Nolan Unger led the way after collecting two apiece. Mack picked up a game-high two runs scored while Nolan added a team-high two RBIs.

IUSB used three pitchers on the mound for game-two work, including sophomore Zack Dobos who suffered the loss in 2.1 innings with eight runs off six hits. Freshman Jaidyn Morris allowed two runs off four hits in 4.2 innings of work while Smith pitched the final scoreless inning.

After both teams added a run in the first, the Lakers responded and plated seven runs off four hits and a Titan error to take the 8-1 lead after three.

Unger sliced a two-out two-run double to right in the fourth, cutting the deficit to 8-3 before Roosevelt added two in the bottom half. More sacrificed a fly in the bottom half of the fifth frame as Mack scored after getting on base with a leadoff triple to center field but the Titans couldn't make anything more of it.

Mack scored on a wild pitch in the seventh before DeHerrera added an RBI single, driving home Smith to make the score 10-6 but the Titans could not complete the rally.

IUSB and Roosevelt complete the weekend series Sunday, April 25 with a single nine-inning game at Four Winds Field in South Bend, Ind. starting a 7 p.m.  Sunday is also senior night as the Titans honor their six seniors in Kyle Hallberg, Jack Schaffer, Moore, DeHerrera, Young and Matt Smith.