PAINESVILLE, Ohio-- The Grand Valley State baseball team extended its wining streak to five games with a pair of wins stemming from a doubleheader against Lake Erie College on Friday. The Lakers downed the Storm 4-1 in the opening game before taking an 11-0 lead and coasting to a 12-4 victory in the nightcap to improve to 21-13 (9-7 GLIAC). The five game win streak ties a season-high set by the Lakers after beginning the season 5-0. 

In the first game, the Lakers took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by Matt Williams, only to the Storm tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the frame. Aside from that early run, Laker starter Ryan Arnold (3-2) was brilliant, pitching six innings in which he allowed just four hits and fanned six in earning the victory. 

Josh Smith provided the game-winning hit in the seventh, mashing a one-out solo home run to put the Lakers up 2-1. Pinch hitter Anthony Villar then singled to drive in Matt Williams, with Austin LaDoux also coming around to score on a throwing error by the shortstop. With the 4-1 lead, Williams took over on the mound for Anrold and pitched a scoreless seventh inning to notch his seventh save of the 2017 campaign. 

LaDoux posted a 4-4 effort at the plate in game one, while Connor Glick and Alex Young each had two hits. Williams and Smith each had a hit, scored a run and drove in another. 

The Lakers didnt have to wait long for offense in game two, as they knocked in four runs in the second inning via a two-run home run from Connor Glick and an RBI single from LaDoux. LaDoux added a solo shot of his own in the third to extend the lead to 5-0, and it only got worse for the Storm in the fifth frame. 

GVSU scored four more runs in the fifth inning, as tow runs came across on a throwing error by Lake Erie, followed by an RBI single from Seth Johnson and a sacrifice fly from shortstop Johnny Nate to push it to 9-0. Johnson put an exclamation point on the affair in the seventh inning with a two-run home run to make it 11-0, and an RBI single by Zach Berry got the margin to 12-0 shortly thereafter. 

Jake Mason (3-3) was excellent on the mound, as he hurled a season-high 8.1 innings and allowed two runs on six hits while striking out a season-best nine batters. Johnson tallied a big day at the plate with four hits in five at-bats, scoring three runs and driving in three more. Glick had three hits, two RBI and two runs scored, while Villar tallied three hits, two runs scored and an RBI. 

The teams will play another doubleheader tomorrow, with first pitch slated for 1:00 P.M.