Final Stats

	Valparaiso 4, UIC 2 Horizon League Baseball Championship Nischwitz Stadium • Fairborn, Ohio Box Score | Box Score

Fairborn, Ohio - The game began with promise but ended in defeat for the Flames as their 2016 season came to a close in a 4-2 loss against Valparaiso in the Horizon League Baseball Championship. UIC finished the campaign with a 25-30 overall record.

The Flames scattered five hits as Cody Bohanek provided the only offense for the Flames in the contest. He led off the game with a solo home run and later drove in Rob Calabrese on a sacrifice fly. Connor Ryan started for UIC and surrendered four runs on nine hits over 4.2 innings. Valparaiso strung four consecutive hits together, scoring twice in the first inning to take a 2-1 lead and added a solo run the second inning.

Senior Trevor Lane pitched the final 3.1 innings and did not allow a hit, retiring 10 of 11 batters faced. The left-hander concluded the season with a 1.41 ERA and 90 strikeouts placing him sixth on the UIC single-season list in both categories. David Cronin finished with 80 hits which tied him for seventh on the single-season charts.