Aurora University Athletics and the Spartan baseball team celebrated the highly successful 2023 senior class after a doubleheader sweep of Dominican University on Saturday afternoon. AU won 5-1 and 13-0 (7 innings).


Game One Score:  #8 Aurora University 5, Dominican University 1
Game Two Score: #8 Aurora University 13, Dominican University 0 - 7 innings
Record: Aurora University (29-3 overall and 17-1 NACC)
Location: Jim Schmid Field at the Stuart Sports Complex - Montgomery, Illinois


GAME ONE
- AU starter Jack Fisher was perfect through the first four innings of work and would toss a complete game with 13 strikeouts, allowing one run and scattering seven hits.
- While Fisher was throwing up zero's, the Spartan bats took advantage of a Dominican defensive miscue in the third inning. Jacob Ambuel walked and Justin Sartori was hit by a pitch and both would score when Jett Wedekind reached on an outfield error and a 2-0 lead.
- In the fifth the Spartans added another run with a ground-rule double by Sartori and he scored on a single from Josh Reinhardt.
- The game remained 3-0 into the eighth when Reinhardt struck again with a lead-off solo shot. 
- Dominick Curcio followed with a single and later scored on a Nick Baldassano single and a 5-0 Spartans lead.
- Dominican got a solo homer in the ninth but Fisher set down the last three hitters including the final out for his 13th strikeout of the game.
- AU won 5-1.


GAME ONE
HITTING
HITS: Nico Bermeo (3), Josh Reinhardt and Nick Baldassano (2)
HOME RUN: Josh Reinhardt (1)
DOUBLE: Justin Sartori (1)
RUNS: Justin Sartori (2)
RUNS BATTED IN: Josh Reinhardt (2) and Nick Baldassano (1)

PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Jack Fisher (9.0)
DECISIONS: Jack Fisher (win, 6-1)
STRIKEOUTS: Jack Fisher (13)


GAME TWO
- The Spartans gave starter Justin Zimmerman a three-run lead in the bottom of the first with a two-run single from Derek Angelo doing damage.
- Zimmerman would toss six scoreless, four hit innings while striking out six for his eighth win of the year.
- AU blew the game wide open in the third with the scoring starting with a one-out blast over the center field fence from Justin Sartori. Singles from Jett Wedekind, Josh Reinhardt and Sean Rivera followed with Rivera driving in Wedekind. After a Dominican pitching change and with two-outs, Dominick Curcio cleared the bases with a triple to right.
- AU led 8-0 after three innings.
- Another run was added in the fourth with a two-out walk to Wedekind and he scored from second on a single to right from Rivera.
- In the fifth, Nico Bermeo hit a two-run homer to score Collin Meinert, Sartori one out later hit his second homer of the game for a 12-0 lead.
- After a walk to Tyler Patton, Jon Wray collected his first career hit and rbi, a triple down the right-field line and the Spartans led 13-0.
- In the sixth inning, AU called to the bench once more for senior Nick Heiden for a pinch hit. Heiden would take his hacks and struck out in his first AU at bat.
- Senior Tyler Priessing tossed a scoreless seventh with two strikeouts to seal the 13-0 run rule victory.


GAME TWO
HITTING
HITS: Justin Sartori, Collin Meinert and Sean Rivera (3)
HOME RUN: Justin Sartori (2) and Nico Bermeo (1)
TRIPLE: Jon Wray, Collin Meinert and Dominick Curcio (1)
RUNS: Jett Wedekind (3)
RUNS BATTED IN: Dominick Curcio (3)

PITCHING:
APPEARANCES (innings): Justin Zimmerman (6.0) and Tyler Preising (1.0)
DECISIONS: Justin Zimmerman (win 8-0)
STRIKEOUTS: Justin Zimmerman (6) and Tyler Preising (2)