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Don Stoner
12
Winner Augsburg College AUG 1-1
3
Westminster College WCBB 2-3
Winner
Augsburg College AUG
1-1
12
Final
3
Westminster College WCBB
2-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Augsburg College AUG 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 7 0 12 13 1
Westminster College WCBB 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 9 4

W: Chinn, Luke (1-0) L: Brinker (0-1)

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Augsburg College AUG 0-1
7
Winner Westminster College WCBB 2-2
Augsburg College AUG
0-1
1
Final
7
Westminster College WCBB
2-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Augsburg College AUG 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2
Westminster College WCBB 0 3 1 0 0 3 X 7 10 0

W: Hughes (2-0) L: Hochmuth, Lincoln (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Augsburg baseball opens 2016 season with split

FULTON, Mo. -- The Augsburg College baseball team opened its 2016 season with a doubleheader split at Westminster College (Mo.) on Saturday afternoon at Saucier Field. The Auggies dropped the first game 7-1, but scored a 12-3 win in the second game.

THE BASICS
SCORES: Westminster (Mo.) 7, Augsburg 1; Augsburg 12, Westminster 3
LOCATION: Saucier Field, Fulton, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 1-1 overall, Westminster 2-3 overall

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Brandon Schmahl (SR, Minneapolis, Minn./Washburn HS) opened the season for the Auggies with a leadoff home run in the top of the first inning, but the Auggies could manage just three more hits the rest of the way in the opening seven-inning game.
• Josh Marlowe (JR, North St. Paul, Minn.) went 2-for-3 at the plate in the first game, with singles in the second and seventh innings. Billy Brookshaw (SR, Prescott, Wis.) had the other Auggie hit, a single in the sixth inning.
• Lincoln Hochmuth (JR, Cannon Falls, Minn./St. Croix Lutheran HS) took the loss on the mound for the Auggies, striking out two while walking three in 3.0 innings of work. Charles Linder (FY, Harris, Minn./North Branch HS) and Steven Piette (SR, Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial HS) pitched in relief.
• Westminster scored three runs in the second and sixth innings, adding another run in the third. The Blue Jays had 10 hits in the game.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• A seven-run eighth inning, as Augsburg sent 11 batters to the plate, gave the Auggies the big lead. Bryce Pruszinske (SR, Savage, Minn./Burnsville HS) hit a two-run double, Marlowe had a two-run triple, Mike Brookshaw (FY, Prescott, Wis.) and Schmahl hit back-to-back RBI doubles, and Billy Brookshaw hit a run-scoring single in Augsburg's seven-hit inning.
• The Auggies scored twice in the fourth inning, as Marlowe hit a two-run single to plate Piette and Billy Brookshaw.
• Augsburg scored three runs in the seventh inning, as Schmahl hit a run-scoring single and John Dittman (FY, Farmington, Minn.) hit a two-run single.
• Marlowe, Schmahl, Billy Brookshaw, Piette and Eric Olheiser (JR, Maplewood, Minn./Tartan HS) had two hits each for the Auggies.
• Luke Chinn (SR, Burnsville, Minn.) started and struck out four while not walking a batter in six innings of work to earn the pitching win. Jamie Kaye (FY, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) and Piette pitched in relief.

FOR THE FOES
• Adam Mundle and Nick Cessna had four hits each for the Blue Jays in the doubleheader, each claiming two hits in each game.
• Deion Hughes pitched a four-hit, complete-game victory in the first game, striking out six while walking two.
• Mundle and Cessna hit doubles in the first game for the Blue Jays. Tyler Branneky drove in two runs.
• Connor Hager and Branneky hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning of the second game. Cessna had two doubles in the second contest.

UP NEXT
• The teams will compete the series with a single, nine-inning game on Sunday (2/28) at 1 p.m. at Westminster.
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