LIVONIA, Mich. – The Indiana Tech baseball team ended its weekend series with Madonna on Sunday afternoon at Ilitch Park, falling, 8-3, in game one, a conference contest, before winning game two, 10-2, a nonconference affair.
 
After tying the game up a 1-1 in the fourth off a Ryan Meisenheimer RBI single and 2-2 in the fifth off a Matt Bandor RBI single, Madonna would take the lead for good in the fifth as they pushed across runs three and four of the game while they extended their lead to 8-2 in the sixth.
 
Meisenheimer led off the ninth with a single and came around to score on a wild pitch three batters later, but that would be all the Warriors could muster in the game as they fell 8-3.
 
Tighe Koehring and Meisenheimer each recorded two hits in the game.
 
Game two saw Tech jump out to a 4-0 lead over the hosts as Dillin Diehm knocked in a pair of runs with a double, while an error and a single from Javier Castandea made it a four-run inning for the Orange and Black. The four runs would be more than enough from Charles Dunavan, who went 4.2 innings on the mound and scatted five hits while not allowing a run.
 
The visitors tacked on two runs in the fifth and sixth to extend their lead to 9-1 while the Warrior bullpen surrendered just one run and two hits in 2.1 innings of work to salvage the split.
 
Castandea finished the game 4-4 with a team-high three RBI's while four other Warriors (Brandon Burch, Branson Dossen, Diehm and Rico Caravalho) recorded multi-hit outings.
 
Tech (31-17, 21-4 WHAC) returns to action Tuesday as they take on the University of Saint Francis at Parkview Field in the Parkview Sports Medicine Baseball Series opener. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m. from the downtown Fort Wayne stadium.