MINNEAPOLIS -- Rallying from a 4-2 deficit, the Augsburg University baseball team scored four straight runs to end the 2019 season with a victory, a 6-5 nonconference triumph over Crown College on Sunday afternoon at Parade Stadium. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Augsburg 6, Crown 5
LOCATION: Parade Stadium, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 9-27 overall, Crown 16-17 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED
• In a "staff game" which saw Augsburg use 17 position players and eight different pitchers, the Auggies rallied for the win after giving up four Crown runs in the third inning.
• In the third inning, Kyle Hoppe (SO, Andover, Minn./Andover HS) scored an unearned run after reaching base on an error, moving to third on a passed ball and wild pitch, and crossing the plate on an RBI groundout by Walker Rogers (JR, Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley HS).
• Augsburg tied the game at 4-4 in the fifth with another unearned run, as Ryan Masui (SR, Excelsior, Minn./Minnetonka HS) reached base on an error, moved to third on his first collegiate stolen base and a wild pitch, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Troy Ouellette (JR, Robbinsdale, Minn./Armstrong HS).
• After leaving the bases loaded in the sixth, the Auggies took the lead in the seventh. With one out, Dylan Foote (JR, Oakdale, Minn./North St. Paul HS) singled, stole second and moved to third on a groundout, then scored on a dropped fly ball in the outfield. An insurance run came across in the eighth, as Ouellette plated Donovan Tomony (JR, Madison, Wis./Madison East HS) on an RBI single.
• Daniel Phyle (SO, Lakeville, Minn./Rosemount HS) led off the game being hit by a pitch, moved to third on a double by Mike Brookshaw (SR, Prescott, Wis./Prescott HS), and scored after Clayton Bodine (SR, Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS) reached base on an infield error. In the second inning, Josh Tyler (SO, Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) hit the first of his two doubles in the game, and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch.
• Tyler and Brookshaw had two hits each for Augsburg, which had 10 hits in the game.
• After Crown scored its four runs in the third inning, Augsburg relief pitchers retired 17 of 18 Storm batters between the end of the third and the end of the eighth innings, allowing just one baserunner on a single in the fifth. The eight Auggie pitchers combined for eight strikeouts against one walk and seven hits.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
• Nine Augsburg seniors were in uniform for the final times in their collegiate careers, with six seeing game time on Sunday -- Brookshaw, Bodine, Masui, Joe Rydel (SR, Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS), Jacob Kraft (SR, Hutchinson, Minn./Hutchinson HS) and Logan Gagnon (SR, Lakeville, Minn./Apple Valley HS). Gagnon saw the first action of his varsity career in his final game, retiring the only batter he faced in the fifth inning. Jamie Kaye (SR, Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson HS), Charles Linder (SR, Harris, Minn./North Branch HS) and Quentin Lake (SR, Portland, Ore./Lincoln HS) all pitched for Augsburg on Saturday.

FOR THE FOES 
• Chad Herrera and Brooks Repking each went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored for the Storm.
• Gideon Dunn and Bailey Sarto also drove in runs as part of Crown's four-run third inning.