The weekend began with John Carroll in seventh place on the outside looking in as far as the Ohio Athletic Conference postseason possibilities were concerned.

On the heels of a sweep of Heidelberg at home Friday, the Blue Streaks kept their good run going with a sweep of Muskingum on the road Saturday. JCU won game one, 8-3, before outlasting the Muskies in the nightcap, 11-8.

The opener featured two strong pitching performances in the early going by Jake Servidio of John Carroll and Brandon Bush of Muskingum. Both starters gave up just one run through the first three innings before the JCU offense got rolling.

John Bondi and Aaron Zawadzki each had RBI hits in the fourth, and then sacrifice fly RBI efforts by Matthew Donnelly and Mike Raschilla in the fifth stakes the Blue Streaks a 5-2 lead.

JCU erased any doubt in the latter innings after Bush departed. Dom Mittiga homered to lead the seventh, and then homered again in the eighth with Monroe Donnelly aboard to put the finishing touches on the victory.

Servidio went the first five innings and allowed two runs on five hits, striking out four and walking four to improve his record to 4-2. Steve Virost worked the final four innings and allowed just one runa nd three hits for his second save in as many days.

The Blue Streaks never trailed in the nightcap, scoring three in the first, two in the fourth, one if the fifth, three in the sixth, and adding single tallies in the seventh and eighth. The onslaught was powered in particular by Zawadzki, who went 3-5 with four RBI and one run scored in the leadoff position, and Monroe Donnelly, who went 4-5 with three runs scored and an RBI out of the three hole. Derek Penman, Mittiga and Joe Charpentier all batted in runs as part of an 18-hit effort.

Cameron Mayle picked up the win, giving up five runs on six hits in his five innings. Mark Meterise earned the save, working the final two and a third innings allowing two unearned runs.

John Carroll has now won a season-high five consecutive games, scoring a total of 51 runs in those five wins. The Blue Streaks are now 15-16 on the year and 8-4 (4th place) in the OAC with four league games remaining against Marietta and Capital.  Muskingum falls to 14-19 overall and 5-9 in the OAC.