The Lindenwood baseball team (10-14, 1-2 OVC) split Saturday's doubleheader with Eastern Illinois (9-12, 2-1 OVC) in Charleston, Ill. The Lions dropped game one, 4-3, before bouncing back with a 14-4 win in game two,

GAME ONE
Eastern Illinois – 4
Lindenwood – 3

OVERVIEW
Lindenwood opened the scoring in the second with a solo shot from Sam Grunberg and went up 1-0. Eastern Illinois responded quickly with a run in the bottom half, tying the score at one.

Chalie Isom-McCall led off the third with a double and eventually came around to score on an RBI single from Filip Sarota. The Panthers tied it with a run in the fourth, before Sarota doubled home Tyler Thompson in the fifth, putting the Lions in front, 3-2. EIU jumped back in front 4-3 with two in the bottom half.

Lindenwood's offense was unable to push another run across, falling by that score. Eli Brown had a strong afternoon on the mound, going seven innings, giving up two earned runs.

GAME ONE LEADERS
Filip Sarota (3-4, 2 RBI)
Sam Grunberg (2-4, 1 HR)

GAME TWO
Lindenwood – 14
Eastern Illinois – 4
The Lions pounded out 15 hits in game two, which resulted in 14 runs. In the second inning, Bryson Arnette and Mitch Cummins had back-to-back doubles to drive in runs, followed by a two-run shot by Evan Funkhouser, giving the Lions a 4-0 lead.

Eastern Illinois put two runs on the board in the second, and two more in the third, tying the game at four. The Lions responded right away with back-to-back-to-back homer by Cummins, Funkhouser, and Charlie Isom-McCall in the fifth, making the score 7-4. Sarota doubled home Kam Edwards later in the inning, extending the lead to 8-4.

Lindenwood kept piling it on with three more in the fifth, with RBI's by Arnette and Funkhouser, pushing the lead to 11-4. The Lions scored three more in the sixth as Thompson brought in two and Funkhouser drove in his fifth run of the second game, extending the lead to 14-4.

The Black and Gold was able to finish it off in seven. Micheal Walsh pitch 4.1 innings of scoreless ball out of the pen and gave up no hits while striking out three.

GAME TWO LEADERS
Evan Funkhouser (4-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI)
Bryson Arnette (2-3, 2 runs, 2 RBI)
Michael Walsh (4.1 IP 0 runs, 0 hits, 3 Ks)

UP NEXT
The Lions will host Bradley on Tuesday, March 25 at Lou Brock Sports Complex. First pitch is set for 5:00 p.m.