Lourdes began its final homestand of the season on Saturday, dropping a pair of games to Lawrence Tech 9-1 and 7-5 at Mercy Field.
 
The Blue Devils took the lead with a solo home run in the second before plating two runs in both the third and fourth innings.  A four-run fifth inning broke the game open, giving Lawrence Tech a 9-0 lead.
 
Lourdes scored its lone run of the game in the bottom of the fifth as Nick DiGennaro (Oakville, Ont./St. Ignatius of Loyola H.S.) led off the inning by being hit by a pitch and eventually scored on a throwing error on an attempted double play ball.
 
The Gray Wolves managed just four hits in game one.
 
In game two, Lourdes struck first as Caleb Edwards-Dugan (Lima, Ohio/Lima Senior H.S.) singled home a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
 
The Gray Wolves maintained the lead into the seventh when Lawrence Tech tied the game before taking a 4-2 lead with two more runs in the eighth.
 
A pair of sacrifice flies in the bottom of the eighth, one by Christian Mays (Oregon, Ohio/Clay H.S.) and the other by A.J. Brinson (Bloomington, Ind./South H.S.) pulled the Gray Wolves even.  Alex Dupree (Sylvania, Ohio/Northview H.S.) then delivered a run-scoring triple with two outs to give Lourdes a 5-4 lead heading to the ninth.
 
The first five Blue Devils would reach base in the ninth as Lawrence Tech rallied with three runs to pull out the win.
 
Edwards-Dugan and Joel Suraganan (Pickerington, Ont./Dunbarton H.S.) each had two hits for the Gray Wolves in the nightcap.
 
Lourdes (9-29, 8-18 WHAC) and Lawrence Tech (24-14, 16-7) will wrap up their four-game weekend series on Sunday with another doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. with Senior Day activities taking place prior to game one.