For a team that has been through the rigors of the Ohio Athletic Conference and the tense moments many of those games have brought, a game outside the conference may have seemed like a welcome respite.

Case Western Reserve didn't get the proverbial memo. 

The red-hot Spartans. winners of 11 of their last 14 games, stayed red hot with a 9-4 win over the Blue Streaks. The loss snapped a five-game roll that John Carroll had been on since a setback against Baldwin-Wallace in game one of a doubleheader on April 10.

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John Carroll was out of sorts from the beginning. Starting pitcher Joe Bossard, who had pitched seven shutout innings against Case Reserve when the two teams met previously back on April 1, was rocked for six runs in the first three inings. 

In the meantime, the normally potent offense did not record its second hit until the fourth inning, and did not score its first run until the seventh.

Yeomen's work by a pair of freshman hurlers, Robbie Bellusci and Mike Konya, kept JCU haning around. From the fourth to the eighth inning, Bellusci (4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, O ER, 5 K) and Konya (1 IP, 1 H, 0 R) managed the game to allow for the Blue Streak bats to awake.

In the seventh, John Carroll finally got to starter A. J. Boshinski. Joe Veltri, Tim O'Brien and Ryan Pacyga all picked up RBI as part of a three-run frame. But that would be as close as the Streaks would get.

Case improves to 23-16 while John Carroll drops to 18-9 following today's result.