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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – For the second straight day, the St. Bonaventure baseball team (2-5) lost a one-run game as the Bonnies surrendered an 8th-inning lead and fell to Valparaiso (2-5) on Saturday, 5-4.

With the Bonnies holding a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 8th, Bona starter Asa Johnson was lifted after giving up a leadoff single. Freshman Connor Grey entered, and after tossing two innings of scoreless relief on Friday, struggled on Saturday as he committed an error, threw a wild pitch and ultimately allowed the winning run to score on a sacrifice fly.

In the loss, the top of the Bonaventure lineup was brilliant again as hitters 1-4 each had multiple hits, going a collective 10-20 with Eric Jutca and Austin Ingraham both recording 3-for-5 days with an RBI and Jason Radwan and Billy Urban finishing 2-for-5. Catcher Nick Lohrer (pictured) went 2-for-3 with a walk out of the 7th position in the SBU lineup.

Radwan extended his hitting streak to 21 games and Urban extended his hitting streak to 15 in a row, both dating back to last year. Radwan also added a pair of RBI to increase his team-leading total to seven for the year.

Johnson left with a no-decision after tossing 7+ innings, allowing 10 hits, four earned runs, walking one and striking out three. Grey (0-1) took the loss as he also allowed two hits over his one inning of work.

The Bonnies opened the scoring first in the 3rd inning with an Ingraham infield single to plate Jonathan Diaz, who reached on a one-out single. After Valpo got two runs back in the bottom half of the inning to take a 2-1 lead, SBU reclaimed it with a pair of tallies in the 5th. The first came on an RBI triple to right field by Jutca to score Lohrer, who led off the frame with a single up the middle. The second came on Radwan's RBI single through the right side to bring Jutca home.

Valpo tied the contest up at 3-3 in the bottom of the 7th, but the Brown and White plated what looked to be the game-winning run in the 8th, once again courtesy of an opposite-field single from Radwan to score Loher, who had singled to left.

St. Bonaventure returns to action on Sunday at 11 a.m. in its second-to-last game of its Florida trip against Chicago State.