After winning on its home field Friday, St. Ambrose lost a doubleheader at Roosevelt Saturday to drop the CCAC series.

The Bees took the opener 3-2 thanks to a three-run fourth inning at Modern Woodmen Park.

SAU trailed 2-0 before putting together four hits and taking advantage of a Laker error in the fourth. Zach Stroman and Matt Baldwin had back-to-back one-out hits before a Tanner Ennis sacrifice fly got the Bees on the board. Peyton Minder followed with a single down the left-field line to score Baldwin with the tying run. After the Roosevelt error kept the inning alive, Josh Hlubek made the Lakers pay with a run-scoring single to center to give the Bees a 3-2 lead.

The one big inning stood up behind the work of two SAU pitchers.

Noah Kesselmayer got the win after allowing eight hits and two runs over five innings. Trevor Hatcher took over from there, allowing just one hit over four scoreless innings to earn the save.

Baldwin and Hlubek each collected two hits in the victory.

But when the scene shifted to Chicago, St. Ambrose dropped Saturday's doubleheader by scores of 6-1 and 6-5 to move to 9-19 overall and 6-6 in the conference.

The lone run and the majority of SAU's offense came in the first inning of Game 1. David Gonzalez led off with a double, Kevin Zanger drew a walk and Cole Aughenbaugh singled to load the bases. Stroman lined a sacrifice fly to center to plate the game's first run.

But after picking up two hits in the first, St. Ambrose managed just two more hits the rest of the way - a two-out Andrew Barreto double in the second and a one-out Baldwin single in the seventh.

Roosevelt (14-15, 10-4 CCAC) took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the first and added to its lead with three runs in the fourth and one more in the fifth.

Tyler Bromer was charged with the loss. Jordan Chapel struck out four while allowing one unearned run to score over his three innings of relief.

The SAU offense came back to life in Game 2 but the Lakers escaped the back-and-forth affair 6-5 on a walk-off error.

St. Ambrose came from behind twice, first from a 3-0 deficit with a four-run sixth inning. Ennis, Minder, Barreto and Gonzalez each had an RBI to help the Bees to a 4-3 lead.

After Roosevelt tied the game in the bottom of the sixth and scratched out another run in the seventh, Gonzalez had a big two-out hit to score Minder to tie the game at 5-5 in the top of the eighth.

But in the bottom of the ninth, the Lakers escaped with a win. After a lead-off single, the Lakers got down a sacrifice bunt attempt, but the Bees threw the ball away, allowing the winning run to score all the way from first.

Sean Jaycox took the loss after allowing three runs, two earned, over four innings of relief. Nate Kurtz started and gave up three runs over the first four frames.

Gonzalez finished with three hits and Minder had two as part of SAU's nine-hit attack in the nightcap.

Wednesday, the Bees will play a conference doubleheader at Saint Xavier. The first game is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.