GAME ONE BOX SCORE

ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The UIC baseball team (23-20-1, 17-8 HL) earned a 13-11 victory in the series-opener at Oakland (10-32, 5-19 HL) on Friday afternoon and led the Golden Grizzles in game two by a tally of 7-6 before play was suspended due to rain in the top of the seventh inning. Game two will conclude on Saturday at 10 a.m. CT with the finale to follow 30 minutes after.

Game One Recap

Junior Jack Andersen (4-5) came in for relief in the sixth inning and halted a furious Oakland comeback in game one of Friday's doubleheader as UIC ultimately prevailed by a final of 13-11. The Golden Grizzlies knotted the score at 11-11 after being down 9-0, but the Flames sent two across the dish in the ninth inning to complete the triumph.

Andersen was credited with the win after giving up just one run and one hit in 3.2 innings of work. Senior Ryan Hinchley came in for the final out and earned his eighth save of the year.

The Flames jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the opening frame after senior Jeff Boehm belted his first of two homers of the game that also scored sophomore Cody Bohanek.

UIC went ahead 5-0 with three scores in the third inning as Boehm kicked things off with a solo shot to left field. The slugger now has 10 dingers on the season. Senior Alex Lee and freshman Rob Calabrese recorded RBI-singles in the frame.

The Flames added four more runs in the fourth inning to extend their lead out to 9-0. Redshirt senior Zenon Kolakowski was plated off a double from senior Tyler Detmer and then McDonald sent in Detmer with a two-bagger of his own. Later in the frame, redshirt junior Conor Philbin and Lee posted back-to-back RBI-singles.

Oakland pushed across its first two runs of the game in the bottom of the fourth stanza, but UIC answered with a pair of scores in the fifth. The Golden Grizzlies were not finished as they went on to score nine runs in the fifth and sixth innings to tie the count at 11-11.

McDonald came through in the ninth inning to give UIC the 13-11 win as he ripped a two-RBI single that plated Boehm and Detmer.

Game Two Recap

Oakland built a 5-1 lead after two innings by scoring two runs in the first and then three more second. Philbin gave UIC its first score of the game with a RBI-single in the bottom of the second frame.

The two teams traded solo homers in the third inning from Detmer and Ian Yetsko to make the tally 6-2.

A RBI sac-fly from Kolakowski in the fourth inning cut Oakland's lead down to 6-3 before UIC took a 7-6 advantage with four scores in the top of the fifth frame. Detmer cracked another solo shot to begin the surge and then Calabrese and redshirt freshman David Cronin recorded RBI-singles to plate Philbin and Lee, respectively. Calabrese later scored off a wild pitch.