TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Augsburg University baseball team opened its spring break trip to Arizona over the weekend, dropping a 14-4 decision to Framingham State (Mass.) on Saturday, while being swept in a doubleheader against Concordia University-Wisconsin on Sunday.

THE BASICS
SATURDAY'S SCORE: Framingham State (Mass.) 14, Augsburg 4 (8 innings)
SUNDAY'S SCORES: Concordia-Wisconsin 14, Augsburg 1; Concordia-Wisconsin 8, Augsburg 3
LOCATION: Kino Sports Complex, Tucson, Ariz.
RECORDS: Augsburg 3-3 overall

FRAMINGHAM STATE GAME HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg was limited to seven hits in the game, ended in the eighth inning due to the Tucson Invitational Games' 10-run rule. The Auggies also committed five errors, leading to seven unearned runs against three Auggie pitchers.
• Augsburg scored a run in the third inning, as Zach Bakko (SR, Northfield, Minn./Northfield HS) plated Chris Steinhoff (SO, St. Paul, Minn./Como Park HS) on a single. Another run came across in th fourth, as Dylan Foote (SO, Oakdale, Minn./North St. Paul HS) led off the inning with a triple and scored on a single by Donovan Tomony (SO, Madison, Wis./Madison East HS).
• In the seventh, the Auggies scored twice, with Jordan DeCroock (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) scoring on a double play groundout, and Cam Erikson (SR, Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva HS) hitting a single to drive home Clayton Bodine (JR, Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS).
• Foote went 2-for-4 in the game for the Auggies.
• Anthony Venuti and Andrew Curtis had three hits each for Framingham State, with Curtis scoring three runs and Venuti scoring twice with three RBI.

CONCORDIA-WISCONSIN DOUBLEHEADER HIGHLIGHTS
• Bakko had three hits, including a pair of doubles, and scored a run in the Augsburg doubleheader against Concordia-Wisconsin. Erikson, DeCroock and Jordan Peoples (SO, Cottage Grove, Minn./Park HS) had two hits each, with Peoples stroking an RBI double.
• In their first game, the Auggies scored their lone run in the fourth inning, as Peoples' RBI double plated Bodine.
• The Falcons took advantage of several big innings in the first game, scoring four runs in the first inning, three runs in the third, five runs in the fifth and two runs in the sixth.
• In the second game, Augsburg scored a run in the fifth inning, as DeCroock plated Walker Rogers (SO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS) on an RBI single. In the sixth, Bakko led off the inning with a double, then moved to third and scored on a pair of wild pitches. Later, Tomony hit an RBI single to plate Erikson.
• Charles Linder (JR, Harris, Minn./North Branch HS) started on the mound for the Auggies in the second game, striking out four while not walking a batter in four innings. Quentin Lake (FY, Portland, Ore./Lincoln HS) saw his first varsity action in relief, striking out three while walking two in two innings.

UP NEXT
• Augsburg takes on Dubuque (Iowa) in a doubleheader at the Kino Sports Complex on Monday (3/12) at 5 p.m. Central (3 p.m. Arizona time).