Lourdes picked up its school-record 17^th victory of the season on Friday, winning a suspended game against Concordia (Mich.) 12-9 in 11 innings before dropping a 9-2 non-conference game to the Cardinals at Cardinal Field in Ann Arbor, Mich.
 
The victory allowed the Gray Wolves to surpass the 2013 team which finished the year 16-27-1.
 
Tied at eight when the day began heading into the 10^th inning, neither team scored in the first frame of the day.  Lourdes capitalized on three Concordia errors in the 11^th though, scoring four times to take the lead.  George Pastor (Walled Lake, Mich./Central H.S.) singled home two, putting the Gray Wolves in front, before Dallas Riggs (Prescott, Ariz./Bradshaw Mountain H.S.) reached on a two-out error plating two more.
 
Concordia scored one in the bottom of the 11^th, but Braxton McKart (Monroe, Mich./Monroe H.S.) got the final outs on his way to the win (3-0) on the hill in the important Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference game.  Jacob Clark, who pitched the final 7.2 innings over the two days, suffered the loss (2-1) for the Cardinals.
 
Denman led the Lourdes offense with three of the Gray Wolves' 13 hits in the contest.
 
Playing a seven-inning non-conference game afterwards, Lourdes struck first on a Pastor home run.
 
The Cardinals responded, scoring in four of the next five innings.  Concordia tied the game on a lead-off home run in the bottom of the first and took the lead with another solo shot in the second.  A five-run fifth inning broke the game open, as the Cardinals batted around.
 
Christian White (Tipp City, Ohio/Bethel H.S.) collected his first collegiate hit, a RBI double in the seventh, to complete the Lourdes scoring.
 
Pastor had the only multi-hit game for Lourdes in game two, tallying two of the team's six hits.
 
Gregory Barbuto earned the win (2-0), tossing six innings for Concordia (25-12, 11-8 WHAC), allowing one run on five hits.  Jeremy Zsolcsak (Brownstown, Mich./Roosevelt H.S.) suffered the loss (0-2), allowing four runs and six hits in 2.2 innings of work.
 
Lourdes (17-20, 8-14) returns home to Mercy Field on Saturday afternoon, as the Gray Wolves begin a weekend series against Aquinas.  First pitch in game one of the doubleheader is set for noon.