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Lourdes continued its stretch of Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference games on Wednesday afternoon, dropping both ends of a doubleheader to Indiana Tech by scores of 13-4 and 8-1 at Mercy Field.
 
"Give Indiana Tech all of the credit today," head coach Andy Ham said.  "College baseball is a long season and sometimes you just need to grind through it.  That's where we're at right now.  I think we need to relax at the plate a little bit and let things come to us.  We're trying to force the issue at times."
 
In the opener Indiana Tech plated a run in the opening inning before Lourdes took the lead in the fourth, batting around in the frame.  Marty Ramirez (Toledo, Ohio/Start H.S.) drove home Garrett Jex (Bowling Green, Ohio/Bowling Green H.S.) with a sacrifice fly to tie the game at one.  Zak Laubscher (Twinsburg, Ohio/Twinsburg H.S.) drew a bases loaded walk to force home Nate Snow (Tucson, Ariz./Palo Verde H.S.) to give the Gray Wolves the lead and Nick Toth (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson H.S.) added a pair of runs with a single to left-center.
 
Drew Lepiarz (Toledo, Ohio/Start H.S.) allowed just one hit from the second throw fifth innings before being touched for a pair of runs in the sixth.  He left with the lead after surrendering just three runs and three hits in 5.2 innings of work.
 
"Drew was definitely a bright spot for us today," Ham added.  "He pitched a good ball game.  We just couldn't hold the lead for him."
 
Indiana Tech sent 10 batters to the plate in the seventh and nine more in the eighth, scoring five times in each inning.  The Warriors took advantage of a pair of Gray Wolf errors in each frame to rally and win.
 
Blake Converset earned the win (1-1) out of the bullpen, tossing 3.1 innings of scoreless, one-hit relief while striking out three.  Frank Shaffer (Twinsburg, Ohio/Twinsburg H.S.) suffered the loss (0-4), allowing five runs, two of which were earned in one-third of an inning.
 
Brian Hakes went 2-for-3 with a triple, an eighth-inning three-run home run, and four runs batted in to pace the Warriors in the opener.  Jex had two of Lourdes' six hits in game one.
 
Game two saw Indiana Tech (9-10, 5-3 WHAC) score in each inning from the second to the sixth in jumping out to an 8-0 lead.  Peyton Newsom went 3-for-4 with three RBI while Romer Portes also had three hits as part of the team's 12-hit attack.
 
Lourdes scored its lone run in the bottom of the sixth as three straight singles by Andy Kefalos (Barberton, Ohio/Barterton H.S.), Jex, and Tyler Trame (Toledo, Ohio/Central Catholic H.S.) produced the tally.
 
Kefalos went 2-for-2 in the contest with a double as Lourdes managed just five hits in the game.
 
Brian Gremaux earned the win (1-3), allowing just the one run and five hits in six innings of work.  A.J. Schraffenberger (Cincinnati, Ohio/Bishop Fenwick H.S.) suffered the loss (0-1), allowing five runs, three of which were earned, and nine hits in five innings on the hill.
 
Lourdes (5-13, 1-5) will take to the road this weekend for a four-game series against sixth-ranked Davenport.  Saturday's twinbill begins at 1 p.m. at the Farmers Athletic Complex.