Baseball 4/1/06 -- Augsburg 1-6, St. Thomas 0-8

GAME 1 BOXSCORE
GAME 2 BOXSCORE


ST. PAUL, Minn. (4/1/06) -- Mike Moran homered and tripled in a 3-for-4 game, and Sean Young drove in two runs with a homer and a double to lead the host University of St. Thomas (12-5 overall, 1-1 MIAC) to an 8-6 game-two victory and a split of Saturday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball twinbill with visiting Augsburg College (10-6-1 overall, 1-1 MIAC) at the UST North Field.

The Auggies won game one 1-0 on Darren Ginther's (Sr., Crystal, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) four-hit shutout. UST had nine baserunners in the game, but left the bases loaded in the third and sixth innings.

That was just the second Auggie win over St. Thomas in the last 30 meetings dating back to 1992.

Ginther struck out three, walked four and hit one batter. He outdueled UST freshman Erik Olson, who allowed four hits, one walk and one run with five strikeouts over seven innings.

The Auggies got the lone run of the game in the third as Jeff Stomberg (So., Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial HS) had an infield single, took second on a throwing error and reached third on a wild pitch. After a walk to Brian Bambenek (Jr., St. Charles, Minn.), Ricky Schreier's (Jr., St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall HS) RBI single up the middle scored Stomberg.

In game two, UST outhit the Auggies 11-9 and took leads of 3-0, 6-2 and 8-3 before holding on.

The Auggies had two singles in the top of the seventh to put the tying runners aboard, but Riley Bosch got a fly out to end the threat. Bosch earned a save as he worked 2.2 innings in relief of Chris Bullis (4 1-3 innings, 4 ER, 6 H, 2W, 3K).

UST took a 1-0 lead as Mike Kimlinger singled, stole second and scored on Moran's RBI single. It was 3-0 in the second after Sean Young's solo homer, Louie Salmen single and a wild pitch, and Chris Carino's RBI single.

The Auggies cut the lead to 3-2 in the third on Bambenek's RBI double and Schreier's RBI single.

UST went back ahead 6-2 in the bottom of the third. Moran tripled, Jordan Roering was hit by a pitch, Young had an RBI double, Dan Leslie had an RBI ground out and Matt Pex had an RBI single.

The Toms made it 8-3 on Moran's two-run homer in the fourth inning. Moran just missed hitting for the cycle as his liner into the left-field gap in the sixth inning was caught by the Auggie leftfielder.

Augsburg's Andy Nelson (Sr., Waseca, Minn.) singled to drive in a run in the fifth inning and came across on a fielding error. Ginther also drove in a run on a groundout in the fifth.

Schreier and Bambenek both had two hits for the Auggies. Evan Almeroth (Sr., Coon Rapids, Minn./Meadow Creek HS) started and lasted 2.1 innings, with Andrew Werner (So., Vermillion, Minn./Hastings HS) pitching in relief. Werner struck out three while walking two.

Both teams return to action on Wednesday (4/5) at 2:30 p.m., with St. Thomas playing at Gustavus and Augsburg hosting Hamline at Parade Stadium.