COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- The Augsburg University baseball team dropped a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader to Saint John's University on Friday afternoon.
THE BASICS
SCORES:Â Saint John's 6, Augsburg 1; Saint John's 2, Augsburg 1
LOCATION:Â Becker Park, Collegeville, Minn.
RECORD:Â Augsburg 11-13 overall (3-7Â MIAC), Saint John's 23-5 overall (9-3Â MIAC)
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• Augsburg scored its lone run in the top of the seventh.
Joe Rydel (JR, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS) led off the inning with a double to right and scored after
Jordan DeCroock (SR, Farmington, Minn./Farmington HS) reached base on a throwing error.
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Dayton Danielson (SO, St. Charles, Minn./St. Charles HS) pitched his fourth complete game of the season, striking out five while walking three.
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Clayton Bodine (JR, Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS) had two hits for the Auggies in the first game.
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• The game was tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, when the Johnnies claimed the walk-off win on a one-out single and throwing error.
• Augsburg tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the sixth, as Bodine singled and scored on a one-out double by
Cam Erikson (SR, Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva HS).
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Jamie Kaye (JR, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS) pitched his fourth complete game of the season for Augsburg, striking out three while walking one.
• Bodine and
Donovan Tomony (SO, Madison, Wis./Madison East HS) had two hits each for the Auggies, andÂ
Zach Bakko (SR, Northfield, Minn./Northfield HS) hit a double.
FOR THE FOES
• Jack Schramel had four hits in the doubleheader, going 3-for-4 in the first game. Brennan Swan had three hits, including two in the second game.
• Thomas Meland hit a two-run home run in the first inning of the first game.
• Bennett Wiggins pitched a complete-game win in the first game, striking out five while not walking a batter.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face Hamline in a MIAC doubleheader on Sunday (4/29) at 1 p.m. at CHS Field in St. Paul, Minn.
• Saint John's travels to face St. Scholastica in a nonconference doubleheader on Sunday at 12 p.m.