The Carthage College baseball team (14-13, 6-8 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) opened a three-game series with CCIW-opponent Elmhurst College (16-13, 8-6 CCIW) on Saturday, April 21 by splitting a doubleheader at Butterfield Park in Elmhurst, Ill.  The Red Men won the first game, 3-2, but fell to the Bluejays by a 4-2 margin in the nightcap.  The two teams conclude the set with a single game at the Carthage Baseball Field in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday, April 22, beginning at 1 p.m.

In the opener, Carthage pitcher Eric Rohe (Sr., Mundelein, Ill.) improved to 4-2 by limiting Elmhurst to two runs, one earned, on nine hits, eight of those singles, along with one walk and four strikeouts.  Jordan Hanlon (3-3) took the loss.  Carthage broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the eighth inning.  Kyle Pusateri drove home the first run with a bases-loaded fielder's choice, and Chris D'Angelo hit an RBI-single.  Brian Marquis hit a one-out solo home run off Rohe in the bottom of the ninth.  Joey Aiello (Sr., Libertyville, Ill.) went two-for-three.

Elmhurst broke a scoreless tie in the second game with a four-run outburst in the sixth inning.  Tyler Wargo hit an RBI-single.  Dave Wolak scored on a fielding error by Red Men shortstop Drew Bailey.  Jake Bronkema and Eric Stevenson followed run-scoring singles.  Carthage got two runs back in the eighth, the first on a double play and the other on a bunt single by Tyler Eickmeyer.  Pitcher Danny Dahm (Sr., Morton Grove, Ill./Skokie-Niles West, 2-3) took the loss by allowing four runs, two earned, on six hits and a walk over six innings.  Sam Wilhelms pitched the final two frames.  Dave Parr (4-2) stifled Carthage on two runs, six hits and no walks over nine innings, while striking out five batters.