BOXSCORE 1 | BOXSCORE 2 MINNEAPOLIS -- Pitchers Tyler Beck (SR, Fairmont, Minn.) and Tanner Oakes (JR, Jordan, Minn.) combined for 12 strikeouts in 14-and-a-third innings of work, but the Augsburg College baseball team dropped a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader to the nationally ranked University of St. Thomas on Sunday afternoon at Parade Stadium.

Beck pitched a complete-game, seven-inning effort in the first game, striking out seven while walking two in Augsburg's 6-3 loss. Oakes threw 7.1 innings of work in the second game, striking out five while not walking a batter in Augsburg's 11-1 loss.

Augsburg (12-22 overall, 6-14 MIAC) fell behind 5-0 to St. Thomas (29-7 overall, 18-2 MIAC) after three innings in the first game, but four of the five runs were unearned against Beck, as the Auggies committed four errors, including three in the third inning when the Tommies scored four runs. St. Thomas, ranked No. 12 in the latest D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division III national poll and No. 16 in the latest Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Division III poll, scored another run in the top of the seventh.

Augsburg scored a run in the sixth inning, as Abe Welckle (JR, Minneapolis, Minn./South HS) walked and came around to score on a single by Gary Mariscal (SR, Savage, Minn./Prior Lake HS). Two runs came across in the bottom of the seventh for the Auggies, as Andrew Julkowski (SO, Cedar, Minn./St. Francis HS) scored following a fielding error, and Andrew Douglas (FY, Eastvale, Calif./Roosevelt HS) plated Steven Piette (SO, Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial HS) on a single.

Billy Brookshaw (SO, Prescott, Wis.) went 3-for-4 for the Auggies in the first game, part of a 4-for-5 performance in the doubleheader. Gordon Kappers (JR, Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville North HS) and Douglas had two hits each.

Augsburg scored first in the second game, as Mariscal walked and came across the plate following a throwing error in the bottom of the second inning. But St. Thomas scored 11 unanswered runs, including six in the top of the ninth inning, as the Tommies sent 11 batters to the plate. St. Thomas pounded out 15 hits against four Auggie pitchers in the second game.

Augsburg was limited to four hits in the second game against three Tommie pitchers -- a double by Brookshaw in the first inning, a single by Douglas in the second, a single by Adam Carl (SR, Eagan, Minn.) in the fifth and a single by Kappers in the seventh.

Ben Podobinski, J.D. Dorgan and Tyler Peterson had three hits each for the Tommies in the second game, with each collecting four hits in the doubleheader. Dorgan had a double in each game, while Podobinski and Peterson also added doubles and Kuzinar had a triple in the second game. Peterson, Dorgan, Jack Hogan and Kelvin Stroik drove in two runs each in the second game.

Augsburg returns to action on Monday (5/5) at 5 p.m., hosting Macalester in a nonconference seven-inning doubleheader at Parade Stadium.