The Aquinas baseball team fell in a road conference doubleheader on Wednesday night (Apr. 7), as the Saints dropped a pair of games against Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne. The Warriors pulled away late in game one to win 9-4 and completed the doubleheader sweep with a 7-0 victory in game two.

With Wednesday's results, the Saints drop to 16-12 on the year and 1-3 in conference play, while Indiana Tech improves to 14-19 overall and 3-3 in WHAC action.

AQ got on the board first in game one, scoring in the top of the first on a Braden Nawrocki RBI single to bring in Michael Maher. The Warriors tied the game in the home half of the first and moved in front 2-1 in the third. It was 3-1 in Indiana Tech's favor after the fifth inning, but the Warriors scored three times in the sixth and upped their advantage to 8-1 in the seventh.

It was a 9-2 score in the ninth inning, when Nathan Hughes crushed a two-run homer to plate Maher for the game's final runs. Indiana Tech outhit Aquinas in the opener, 12-9.

Hughes finished 2-for-5 with the roundtripper and two ribbies. Maher tripled and scored a pair of runs. Brady Paganelli also tripled for the Saints. Nawrocki and Alec Lockwood each recorded two hits.

Travis Keys (3-1) suffered his first loss of the season, allowing six earned runs in 5.2 innings on the hill. He struck out seven Warriors.

Indiana Tech jumped out to a 4-0 lead in game two, tacked on a run in the fourth, and added two more in the eighth inning. The Warriors recorded 13 hits in game two, while Aquinas managed just one hit – a first inning single from Lockwood. Hughes walked twice in game two.

Mason Hill (2-1) gave up four runs on five hits in three innings, suffering the loss in the nightcap. Bruce Buurstra struck out three batters in two innings of relief.

The Saints are back in action on Saturday (Apr. 10) at the WMSC Sports Complex in Rockford. AQ hosts Madonna in a WHAC twinbill, starting at 1:00 p.m.