May 24, 2008

Box Score

Niles, Ohio- A pair of three-run innings for Milwaukee spelled doom for the UIC baseball team during a 7-2 loss in a championship round game of the 2008 Horizon League Baseball Championship presented by U.S. Army on Saturday afternoon.

The Flames (33-20) saw their nine-game winning streak snapped and will play Milwaukee (25-35) in a winner-take-all championship contest at 11 a.m. Central at Youngstown State's Eastwood Field.

Jake Carr drove in both of UIC's runs on sacrifice flies.

The Panthers scored the game's first run after Andy Gerhartz's double and Jesse Hart's RBI single began the contest.

Starter Grant Kohlstaedt, who allowed 12 hits and seven runs in just under seven innings, endured a tough fourth inning in which he gave up three runs, including a two-out, two-run homer to Hart.

Kohlstaedt could not get out of the seventh, giving up four hits and three runs before he departed the game.

UIC stranded a total of 10 runners on base.

Milwaukee starter Ben McClarey tossed a complete-game five-hitter to earn the win.

Saturday marked the first time in the last seven games that the Flames failed to scored at least seven runs.