PALATINE, Ill. – The Harper College baseball team dropped both games in the Region IV Sectionals to Milwaukee Area Technical College, subsequently ending the team's season.  The Hawks lost game one 11-4, which forced a second game in which the Stormers won in ten innings, 11-10.
 
Milwaukee (25-24) scored four runs in the tenth inning of game two to claim a 11-7 lead, appearing to put the game out of reach.  But Harper (21-28) rallied behind the big bat of Kevin Robinson (Schaumburg, Ill., Conant).  The catcher cranked his team-leading seventh home run of the season after Nick Spagnola (Algonquin, Ill., Dundee-Crown) and Dan Duran (Skokie, Ill., Niles West) reached via base on balls.  The blast put the Hawks down just a run with only one out, but the team was unable to muster any more offense.
 
Every time the Stormers scored in game two, the Hawks had the answer.  After Milwaukee pushed across two in the opening frame, four straight hits put Harper back even.  Spagnola, Brett Sklena (Skokie, Ill., Niles North) and Duran loaded up the bases for Robinson, who drove in two of his five runs with another single.  Down 3-2 in the second, Sklena plated Spagnola with a single before John Caravia (Norridge, Ill., Ridgewood) drove in Ryan Guthrie (Chillicothe, Mo., Chillicothe) the following inning on a groundout.
 
Spagnola helped the Hawks manufacture another run in the fourth when he singled, stole one of his three bases on the evening, moved to third on a groundout and scored on another groundout, tying the game at 5-5.  Trailing 7-5 in the seventh, Andrew Skinner (Lyons, Ill., St. Joseph) drilled a two-run home run.
 
Last weekend's starters, Josh Daniels (Elk Grove, Ill., Elk Grove) and Scott Plaza (Arlington Heights, Ill., Prospect), delivered out of the bullpen, combining for 3.1 shutout innings to keep the game tied until extra innings.  Dan Hoppel (Rolling Meadows, Ill., Rolling Meadows) suffered the loss on the mound.  Spagnola, Sklena, Duran, Robinson, McHugh and Skinner all had multi-hit games.
 
In game one, Milwaukee jumped ahead 6-0.  Harper chipped away, however, scoring three runs in the fifth.  Caravia laced a double into the left-center gap to start the inning before Sarti was hit by a pitch.  After a sacrifice bunt, Sklena's double got the Hawks on the board and put runners at second and third.  With two outs, McHugh drove in both runners with a single through the right side.
 
Skinner and Caravia led off the sixth with singles and Skinner eventually scored on a balk to make it 6-4, but that was as close as the Hawks got.  Caravia paced the offense with three hits.  Ricky Janokowicz (Carol Stream, Ill., Glenbard North) took the loss, yielding five earned runs in 6.1 innings.