Northern Baseball suffers a pair of one-run losses against CSP
SAINT PAUL, MINN. (NORTHERN STATE) — The NSU baseball team hit the road to play a double-header against the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears Sunday.
The Wolves dropped a close first game while game two of the day went into extra innings. THE QUICK DETAILS Game One: NSU 5, CSP 6 Game Two: NSU 6, CSP 7 Records: NSU 11-20 (NSIC 9-17), CSP 19-22 (NSIC 14-15) GAME ONE: NSU 5, CSP 6 The Golden Bears struck first with a run in the bottom of the first inning to take the lead All five of Northern State’s runs came in the third and were all on home runs Kyle Konechne led off the inning and homered to center right to kick off the scoring for the Wolves and tie the game 1-1 At the next at bat, Jonah Schmidt sent one over the fence in left field to capture Northern’s lead After two outs and two batters reaching bases, Drew Benson stepped up to the plate; he hit a home run to bring in Collin Lott and Mateo Tahsini , NSU on top 5-1 Concordia put up two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth while holding Northern scoreless in the last four innings to walk away with the 6-5 win NORTHERN STATE STATISTICAL STANDOUTS Drew Benson : 2-3, 3 RBI, home run Kyle Konechne : 1-3, home run, RBI Jonah Schmidt : 1-3, home run, RBI Mateo Tahsini : 1-3, run GAME TWO: NSU 6, CSP 7 The Wolves started off slowly, putting up zeroes in the first five innings; conversely, the Golden Bears put up runs in four of the first five innings to go ahead 6-0 Northern State stormed back in the sixth, scoring five runs to cut their deficit to one Mateo Tahsini touched home on a Dalton Kesti single to get the Wolves on the board With bases loaded, Collin Lott stepped up to the plate; he hit a grand slam to right center field ( Dillon Castellanos , Dalton Kesti , Vining, and Lott all scored) Another Northern run in the eighth tied the game up at 6 apiece; Casey Vining homered as the lead-off batter The next (and winning) run of the game wasn’t until the bottom of the 14th inning when CSP’s Gus Berger was walked with bases loaded, bringing Jack Setterlund home Since scoring their final run in the eighth inning, NSU left eight runners on base NORTHERN STATE STATISTICAL STANDOUTS Collin Lott : 3-6, 4 RBI, home run, 7 put outs Casey Vining : 1-7, 2 runs, RBI, home run Dalton Kesti : 1-7, run, RBI, 14 put outs Ethan Price : 4. 0 IP, 17 BF, 6 FO, 1 hit UP NEXT Wolves baseball will wrap up their series against the Golden Bears Monday, April 20 at noon in a stand-alone game.
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