After dropping a doubleheader to Mount Marty Sunday, St. Ambrose bounced back on its opening weekend in Bellevue, Neb., to sweep Monday's games by scores of 2-1 and 9-4.

Sergio Marchizza and Brad Niedzwiedz combined on a three-hitter in Monday's opener. Marchizza struck out four while allowing just an unearned run over five innings. That run tied the game at 1-1 in the sixth. But in the top of the seventh, the Bees pushed across what proved to be the game winner. SAU pieced together three straight two-out hits. Bryce Vincent singled, moved to third on Cade Meek's double and came in to score on Brandon Matias's pinch-hit RBI single. Niedzwiedz, who worked out of a jam in the sixth, retired in the side in order in the seventh to close out the win.

Dan Laughery and Caden Thode also had hits for St. Ambrose. Thode staked the Bees to a 1-0 lead in the third with a double that scored Vincent.

SAU got the sweep by rallying from a 2-0 deficit in the final game of the four-game set. Noah McCreary finished 3-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored. His double in the second scored Matias, who earlier doubled in both Vincent and Jake Mucha, to put the Bees in front 3-2. Brock Webber had a two-run single and Garrett Latoz ripped an RBI hit of his own as part of a three-run sixth inning. McCreary's three-run home run in the seventh put St. Ambrose in front 9-3 before Mount Marty scored a final run in the seventh.

Latoz, Mucha, Matias and Laughery joined McCreary with multi-hit games in the finale. Jacob Bosse struck out seven over four innings in earning the win. Grant Baker struck out four in his two innings of work before Jacob Sciame recorded the final three outs.

SAU nearly pulled off a comeback in the first game of the weekend. Trailing 5-0 going into the bottom of the fourth, the Bees rallied. Matias blasted a two-run homer and Vincent drove in a run as part of a three-run fourth. St. Ambrose matched that in the fifth with Joey Fitzgerald singling in a pair before Vincent's run-scoring single put SAU in front 6-5. But the Lancers responded by tying the game in the sixth and pushing acrosse four runs in the seventh to escape with the win.

Fitzgerald, Vincent and Mucha each had two hits. Matias, Webber and Adrian Zietara also had hits. Frank Quinn worked the first four innings before Nathaniel Johnson and Jake Jacek combined to throw the final three frames.

The Bees managed just two hits in Sunday's final game, both coming in the first inning as McCreary led off with a double and Fitzgerlad picked up a two-out hit. But SAU came up empty, stranding two. That came after Mount Marty scored twice in the top of the first. The Lancers broke things open with three runs in the third and two more in the fourth. Laughery hit a sacrifice fly to score Vincent with the lone St. Ambrose run in the seventh.

Justin Lane was charged with the loss. Carson Spelman threw the final three innings.

SAU will play a four-game series at No. 14 Indiana Wesleyan Friday and Saturday.