Utica, Mich. – The Lawrence Technological University baseball team won a pair of Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference games versus the Aquinas College Saints, 2-1 and 10-2, while earning the program's 100^th win in game one before starting pitcher Alek Wietryzkowski broke his own program record with 18 strikeouts in game two.

How It Happened:

Game One

• Nick Post begin the second inning with a leadoff double to center field. After he was sacrificed to third, Kellen Banaszewski hit a fly ball to right field to plate Post and make it 1-0 LTU.
• Banaszewski would drive in the second LTU run in the fourth, courtesy of the long ball to left field.
• The Saints cut the deficit in half in the sixth as a one out triple was followed by an RBI double down the left field line.
• The Blue Devils avoided any further damage by stranding runners in scoring position with a line out to second.
• Ben Schmidt worked around a 2-out single in the seventh to earn the complete-game win.

Inside the Numbers:

• Schmidt threw a complete game, scattering six hits while allowing just one run to go along with four strikeouts and no walks.
• AQ outhit LTU 6-4 while the Blue Devils left one more runner on base than the Saints (5-4).
• Banaszewski led the Blue Devils out of the 9-hole, going 1-for-1 with a HR and 2 RBIs.

Game Two

• A Jackson Walkowiak grand slam to right center put LTU ahead 4-0 in the first.
• The Blue Devils tagged on two more via a balk and a Cameron Hardy RBI groundout to hold a 6-0 lead after one inning.
• Aquinas added two back in the second via a throwing error on an attempted force out at second base that was thrown into right field.
• Post's double to left center added one back in the third as he plated Luke Morrissette.
• Hardy earned his second RBI of the game on an infield single in the 5-hole that once again scored Morrissette, this time in the fifth.
• Nick Olsen tacked on another in the sixth with an RBI double to center before an RBI groundout by Walkowiak ended the scoring in the eighth as LTU won 10-2.

Inside the Numbers:

• Wietryzkowski went the distance for his fourth straight complete game, allowing just four hits and two runs (zero earned runs) while fanning a program-record 18. The senior struck out 17 back on 3/5 against Dordt during spring break.
• Harry Storch went 3-for-4 with 2 R and a BB to set the table for the LTU offense.
• Nick Olsen added a pair of hits, 2-for-3 with 2 BB, 2 R, RBI.
• LTU outhit AQ 8-4 while the Saints left two more runners of base then the Blue Devils (8-6).

Lawrence Tech is scheduled to take the field at Jimmy John's Field on Wednesday for a non-conference doubleheader against IU-Kokomo, beginning at 2 pm.