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LAKE KATRINE, N.Y. - Heading into Saturday's doubleheader against John Jay College, Bard's Adam Flowers had the best earned-run-average on the team. Nolan Reece ... didn't.

Flowers lowered his ERA by yielding just three earns runs in Game 1, but Bard lost, 8-2. Reece, who had walked 18 batters in just over four innings of relief scattered throughout the season, picked the Raptors up with a stunning complete game in Game 2, giving Bard a 6-3 victory and its second split of the week with John Jay.

Reece worked into and out of trouble a couple of times, but John Jay (6-24) never managed to get the hit that would open the floodgates. Bard was down, 1-0, entering the bottom of the fourth, but the Raptors put up four runs and never again relinquished the lead.

Tyler Emel walked and moved to third when John Jay booted a sacrifice bunt by Alec Montecalvo, leaving runners at first and third with none out. Tom Danz hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game. Later, with two outs and the bases loaded, senior Steve Kovalcik hit a two-run single to right field, and Flowers followed with a single to left-center, making it 4-1 after four innings.

Elliot Garcia's sacrifice fly made it 5-1 in the fifth, but John Jay came back with a pair of runs off of Reece in the top of the sixth to cut it to 5-3.

Bard loaded the bases with no out in the bottom of the sixth but managed just one run to make it 6-3 entering the top of the seventh. The Bloodhounds threatened but didn't score.

Reece ended up with a complete game five-hitter. He struck out five and walked five, giving up just two earned runs. Emel and Garcia had two hits apiece.

In Game 1, Flowers was effective but not dominant, and John Jay made Bard pay for three errors and four walks. The Bloodhounds scored three unearned runs in the first, and that turned out to be enough to win the game.

The Raptors' only runs came in the fourth, when a fielder's choice grounder by Nolan Reece was thrown around by John Jay, allowing two unearned runs to score.

Ryan Conklin had two of Bard's four hits in Game 1.

The Raptors will be on the road early Sunday morning en route to Cazenovia College, where they will play a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.