PLYMOUTH, Wis. – Brian Biggs (Sr.-Romeoville, Ill.) struck out a career-high eight on Senior Day, one of the highlights for the Lakeland University baseball team in its final home games of the season Friday.

The Muskies fell to Edgewood College by scores of 11-2 and 8-1 in a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference twinbill on a day when eight seniors were honored in a ceremony between the two games. Biggs joined Hunter Bukantis (Ovid, Mich.), Andrew Erbstoesser (Union, Ill.), Kellen Hodges (Littleton, Colo.), Kejuan Harvey (Elgin, Ill.), Tyler LaMack (Pewaukee, Wis.), Alex Mikula (Orland Park, Ill.) and Lane Sobieski (Berlin, Wis.) as seniors all recognized for their athletic and academic achievements.

Lakeland (6-28 overall, 4-18 NACC) struggled to cash in at the plate in both games, stranding a combined 28 runners in the doubleheader. The Muskies had to lean on their starting pitchers of Mikula in the first game and Biggs in the second, and both threw well for extended periods.

Mikula threw five scoreless innings in the first game, taking a 1-0 lead into the sixth. He scattered four hits through five innings until trouble arrived in the sixth.

Edgewood (21-16 overall, 13-9 NACC) loaded the bases with nobody out on two walks and a hit batter, and took the lead with two runs. Third baseman Griffin Robinson (So.-Pike Road, Ala.) made a terrific diving stab of liner ticketed to go down the left field line, but after getting up his throw home for the force out was wide and two runners scored. The Eagles would go on to score eight runs in the inning on just three hits, taking advantage of three walks, two hit batters and the error in the game-turning charge.

Biggs pitched the second game and allowed a pair of home runs early but settled in and fanned five over the course of the third and fourth innings. His eight K's for the game tied for the most this season by a Lakeland pitcher, matching the eight strikeouts by Andrew Krause (Fr.-Wauwatosa, Wis.) against RIT March 11.

Edgewood scored three in the second to take the lead, though, added another in the fourth, and then tacked on two more in the fifth to take a 6-1 lead. The Muskies, meanwhile, missed a number of opportunities, stranding at least one runner in eight of the nine innings. A microcosm of the teams' struggles came in the fourth, when a bases-loaded threat ended when LaMack drilled a line drive that Eagles shortstop Ryan Ambrosy made a leaping grab on to save at least a run.

OakLee Spens (Jr.-Burbank, Calif.) and Zak Keegan (So.-Frankfort, Ill.) both had two hits each in the first game, including Spens driving in a run. Hodges also added an RBI and LaMack and Chris Day (Fr.-Victorville, Calif.) scored runs.

Day added two hits in the second game and Harvey also went 2-for-3 with a run-scoring double. Robinson also reached four times, including a single plus two walks and a hit by pitch.

Bukantis pitched in relief in both games, his first two collegiate pitching appearances, and the senior combined to allow three hits and a run over 2 1/3 innings. He finished the opener with 1 2/3 scoreless innings, including working out of a bases-loaded, no outs jam in the top of the ninth.

Lakeland wraps up its season Saturday when it travels to take on Wisconsin Lutheran College at noon in Wauwatosa.