DAYTON- The University of Dayton baseball team split its doubleheader with Saint Louis on Saturday afternoon, winning the nightcap 7-6 after dropping the first game 7-3 at Woerner Field at AES Ohio Stadium.
 
Sophomore J.J. Gatti had his best start of his career in the second game, throwing into the seventh while striking out a career-high eight batters. Freshman Ben Dean finished out the frame and pitched a scoreless eighth, and fellow freshman Lukasz Rondeau finished the final inning and earned his first career save.
 
Rylan Lujo went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and a stolen base, capping off an incredible week where he hit .609 with four home runs, two doubles, 10 runs scored and nine runs driven in. The Coconut Creek, Fla. native had a 1.884 OPS in the Flyers' five games.
 
GAME TWO
Dayton 6, Saint Louis 5
The FlyBoys jumped out to an early lead as Lujo crossed the plate in the first, and after SLU inched ahead with a two-spot in the second, UD added one of their own on a sacrifice fly from Michael DiMartini.
 
Dayton scored single runs in the fifth (Zorn RBI single), sixth (Lujo RBI single), seventh (Alejandro Sardinas two-out RBI single), and eighth (Zorn two-out RBI single) innings to keep its lead over the Billikens.
 
Lujo and Zorn both finished the game with three hits, while Zorn drove in three and Lujo scored three.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
13- total hits for the Flyers (Lujo - 3, Zorn - 3, Cazorla - 2, DiMartini - 1, Stang - 1, Mainolfi - 1, Wouters - 1, Sardinas - 1)
8 - strikeouts for Gatti, a new career-high
6 - total RBI for Dayton (Zorn - 3, DiMartini - 1, Lujo - 1, Sardinas - 1)
1 – win for Ben Dean and save for Lukasz Rondeau, career firsts

GAME ONE
Saint Louis 7, Dayton 3
Michael DiMartini went 3-for-5 and Ryan MacDougall added a two-hit performance with a double, but it wasn't enough to lift the Dayton offense ahead of Saint Louis in the first game of the day, as the FlyBoys fell 7-3.

BY THE NUMBERS
14 - multi-hit games for DiMartini this season, including the game's three-hit showing
9 - Dayton out-hit Saint Louis by one
2 - strikeouts for freshman Carson Samuels, tying a career-best

UP NEXT
Dayton returns to action at Woerner Field at AES Ohio Stadium this Wednesday, March 26, as it welcomes the Air Force Academy for a 3 p.m. contest.

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