Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LORAIN, Ohio -- Notre Dame managed just one run and seven hits in dropping both ends of a doubleheader against Urbana on Saturday. (Gm-1 | Gm-2)

Notre Dame (10-17-1) was shut out, 1-0, in the opener and then fell, 4-1, in the nightcap.  With the twin losses at home -- in a pair of games at Pipeyard Stadium -- NDC is now 5-12-1 over its last 18 games.

Getting complete-game efforts from each of its starting pitchers in the two games on what was a cold day of baseball in Lorain, Urbana (12-14) has now won five of its last six.

Notre Dame got solid starts from senior right-hander Andrew Hyde and freshman left-hander Zach Gresch.  But Hyde and Gresch were outdueled by Julius Story -- who tossed a two-hitter in the opener -- and Thomas Piatt -- who allowed 11 base runners but just one run in game two.  The doubleheader marked the front end of a two-day, four-game, home-and-home series between the Falcons and Blue Knights, who are scheduled to play a noon twin bill in Urbana, Ohio, on Sunday.

Game One
The first game got underway with a game-time temperature of 37 degrees and a wind-chill of 30.  Hyde yielded a single and a stolen base to Cody Ridinger with one out in the second inning.  Ridinger then went to third on a wild pitch and then came into score on a sacrifice fly off. 

That lone run would prove to be all the offense Story would need.  The 6-foot-4 senior right-hander was efficient in dispatching the Falcons with just two singles in an hour-and 28 minutes.   Story got 10 groundball outs and at one point, starting in the second inning, retired 10 straight batters.

Hyde matched zeroes with Story the rest of the way after the second in absorbing a hard-luck loss.  He allowed five hits (all singles) and two walks, while striking out six.  In doing so, the veteran right-hander lowered his season ERA to 2.04.

Game Two
Another pitcher's duel was in the offing in game two.  NDC freshman Zach Gresch -- making just his second collegiate start -- went five innings allowing just one run.  Gresch was matched by Thomas Piatt, and the two entered the sixth inning deadlocked in a 1-1 tie. 

Gresch was lifted for junior right-hander Dan Poskocil after walking the leadoff batter in the sixth.  Poskocil escaped the sixth unscathed but then yielded three runs on a walk and four base hits in the seventh.

Piatt went the route for the Blue Knights, yielding just a solo marker in the fifth amid five hits and five walks.

Over the two games, NDC was out-hit, 15-7, and the Falcons went just 1-for-13 on the day with runners in scoring position.

“It was a disappointing day,” said Interim Head Coach Len Barker. “But the great thing is we go at it again in less than 24 hours.  We have to be good in every phase of the game.  And we can be.”