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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg College baseball team claimed a nonconference doubleheader sweep of Viterbo University (Wis.) on Thursday evening at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, winning the first game 4-3 and the second game 5-1.

Augsburg improved to 14-4 overall with the two victories. Augsburg has won its last six games in a row and 11 of its last 12 games. Viterbo falls to 3-6 overall.

Fourteen different pitchers threw for the Auggies in the doubleheader -- each pitching an inning. Auggie pitchers combined for 10 strikeouts, while allowing 10 hits and five walks, in the twinbill.

In the second game, Tom Petersen (SR, Hugo, MInn./White Bear Lake HS) connected on Augsburg's first home run of the season in the third inning, a towering solo shot to right field. Petersen also had an RBI double in the first inning, going 2-for-4.

After surrendering a run in the fifth inning of the second game on an RBI single by Blake Shepherd (JR, Mindoro, Wis./Melrose-Mindoro HS), the Auggies struck for three runs in the bottom of the fifth, all coming across following a bases-loaded fielding error.

In the first game, Augsburg used a three-run fourth inning to take the lead. Tim Gerding (SR, Robbinsdale, Minn./Cooper HS) drove in a run on a sacrifice fly, and two runs came across following a fielding error and a bases-loaded walk. Another run came across following an error in the top of the sixth.

Viterbo scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth, as Brandon Beech (FY, WInona, Minn.) hit an RBI single, and two more runs scored following a fielding error and a double-play grounder.

Bobby Monsour (SR, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Roseville HS) went 2-for-3 in the first game for Augsburg, Lou LaChapelle (JR, Eagan, Minn.) also went 2-for-3 in the first game, en route to a 3-for-5 effort in the doubleheader.

Beech and Shepherd had two hits apiece for Viterbo in the doubleheader.

Augsburg opens Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play with a doubleheader at Gustavus Adolphus College on Saturday (3/31) at 1 p.m.