John Carroll left the last two Ohio Athletic Conference baseball tournaments with little to show for its effort.

A win over Mount Union Friday would help change the Blue Streaks' recent fortunes.

Although Heidelberg would end John carroll's run in the next round, a 7-1 victory over the Purple Raiders in the first elimination game of the playoffs gave John Carroll its first OAC postseason win in seven years.

Box Scores:  vs. Mount Union  /   vs. Heidelberg

In John Carroll's first tournament game Friday afternoon, Pat Stone hit a two-run home run to lead a mid-inning uprising that supported a six-hitter tossed by a pair of pitchers at Don Schaly Stadium in Marietta, Ohio.

The tandem of Tony Evanko and Robbie Bellusci held the third-seeded Purple Raiders to a single run in nine innings in what was an elimination game for both teams.

After an RBI single by Johnny Hastings plated Joe Veltri in the first inning, Stone came through with a long ball in the fourth -- with Aaron Miller on base -- to give John Carroll a 3-0 lead. Later in the same inning, Chris Larry drove home Ryan Konsler for a four-run  advantage.

JCU added to its lead with two more runs in the fifth, driven in by Stone and Dan Potter.

Evanko left after the fifth with a 6-0 lead, having given up just four hits and no runs.

The Blue Streaks scored their final run on a home run by Johnny Hastings, who hit his team-leading sixth round tripper with no one on base.

Mount Union would get on the board with a single tally in the seventh, but Bellusci settled down and allowed just one base runner in the eighth and ninth innings to pick up the save.

The victory was John Carroll's first since a 9-4 win over Otterbein in a game played in Marietta, Ohio, on May 14, 2004.

In the final game Friday, Heidelberg got the lead early and never relinquished it in handing the Blue Streaks a 14-5 defeat that brought John Carroll's 2011 campaign to a close. Hastings went 3-5 with an RBI to lead the offense.

John Carroll's final record stands at 19-20.