Council Bluffs, Iowa -- Conference leader Iowa Western took all four games in a weekend series against Indian Hills, with a couple of the defeats especially painful for the Falcons. After dropping the opening game of the series, 12-2, on Saturday, IHCC was poised to gain a split for the day, until Iowa Western's Matt Lloyd hit a walkoff two-run homer in the bottom of the 7th for a 4-3 victory. Then, after battling the Reivers to a 0-0 tie through 4 1/2 innings of Sunday's finale, Indian Hills saw IWCC push across three runs in the bottom of the 5th to complete the sweep with a 3-0 win. IW had taken the first game, 11-1.

In the Reivers' walkoff win, Junior Ramirez pitched the first five innings for the Falcons, giving up only three hits and two runs. He walked four and fanned five. Ramirez gave way to Matt Krutsch in the 6th and he held IWCC scoreless in the 6th and had one out in the 7th before Lloyd's crushing blow.

Trevor Kiminski was the tough-luck losing pitcher in the fourth game, permitting seven hits and three runs, all unearned, in a complete-game effort. He didn't walk anyone and struck out four.

The Reivers broke a scoreless deadlock with three runs in the 5th, two on a Jared Gates home run.

The Indian Hills offense was held in check throughout the weekend by the Iowa Western pitching. The Falcons managed only 19 hits in the four games -- five in each of the first three and four in the last game.

Olivier Basabe had two hits in games one, two and three. He had two hits and Luis Gimenez, Lane Harvey and Dillon Nelson one each in the 4-3 loss. Noah Renaud, Nelson and Basabe provided the RBIs in that game with Renaud, Harvey and Jose Vargas scoring the IHCC runs.

Iowa Western scored in every inning in game one Saturday, including six runs in the 4th. In addition to two hits by Basabe, Indian Hills had safeties from Gimenez, Wyatt Olson and Grant Walker. Olson and Basabe knocked in the runs.

The lone run in the 11-1 defeat was driven home by Nelson.

Michael Starcevich was the starting pitcher in that game and was cruising along until the Reivers put up nine runs in the 4th inning.

Indian Hills is now 16-26 and 5-11 in the conference. The Falcons host MCC-Maple Woods in a doubleheader on Tuesday and Southwestern in a single game on Thursday before returning to league play when they take on Muscatine in a four-game set at Pat Daugherty Field this weekend. It will be Parents Weekend with, among the activities, a cookout between games on Saturday.