Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Carthage College baseball team (16-16, 6-11 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) lost both ends of a Saturday, April 28 doubleheader with CCIW-opponent Millikin University (10-24, 5-12 CCIW), 2-1 and 11-7, at Sunnyside Park in Decatur, Ill.  The losses all but eliminated the Red Men from qualifying for the CCIW Baseball Tournament.  The last Carthage team not to reach the conference tournament was the 1988 squad, coach Augie Schmidt IV's second year.
 
Millikin took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener on a solo home run by Kollin Haws.  Carthage tied the game, 1-1, in the sixth on an RBI-triple by Tyler Eickmeyer, his fifth triple of the year.  The Big Blue re-gained the lead, 2-1, in the sixth on an RBI-single by Andrew Hendrian.  That's they it stayed.  Carthage put two runners on base with two outs in the ninth, but Brian Huntsinger grounded out to end the game.  John Steele (2-3) was the winning pitcher, and he limited the Red Men to one run on four hits, while striking out seven batters.  Nik Duffle blanked Carthage over the final three innings to earn his first save.  Eric Rohe (Sr., Mundelein, Ill., 4-3) took the loss.  He allowed two runs on six hits and two walks over eight innings, while striking out 10 batters.
 
Carthage took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run double by Andrew Arenson, and Millikin got a run back in the bottom of the first.  The Red Men took a 6-1 lead in the third with a four-run inning, two of those coming on Big Blue errors.  Millikin came right back with four runs in the bottom half off starting pitcher Danny Dahm, to cut the lead to 6-5.  A solo home run by Mike Gentile in the fifth gave Carthage a 7-5 lead.  The Big Blue scored in the bottom of the fifth to make it a 7-6 game.  Millikin took an 11-7 lead in the sixth on an RBI-double by David Peters, a run-scoring single by Dan Weber, a two-run double by Jared Dosien and a bases-loaded walk to Andrew Agee. 
 
Evan West (5-4) was the winning pitcher in game two.  He allowed seven runs, just one earned, on nine hits and four walks over nine innings.  Carthage starter Danny Dahm was victimized by the Carthage defense, giving up five runs, just one earned, on four hits over two and one-third innings.  Sam Wilhelms (1-2), the second-of-four Red Men hurlers, took the loss, allowing six runs, five earned, on seven hits.  The two teams conclude the series on Sunday, April 29 with a single game at Noon.