MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg University baseball team scored a doubleheader split with Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference-leader Bethel University on Tuesday afternoon, winning 9-4 and falling 3-0 at Parade Stadium.
THE BASICS
SCORES: Augsburg 9, Bethel 4; Bethel 3, Augsburg 0
LOCATION: Parade Stadium, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 13-22 overall (7-11 MIAC), Bethel 26-9 overall (15-3 MIAC)
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
• The Auggies used a nine-hit attack to claim the first-game victory over Bethel, ranked No. 25 in the latest D3baseball.com national poll and receiving votes in the American Baseball Coaches Association Division III national poll.
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Jake Pittelkow (JR, Roseville, Minn./Simley HS) started for the Auggies and threw 5.1 innings to improve to 3-2 on the season, striking out eight against one walk and seven hits. He had 50 strikes on his 84 pitches.
Caleb Tays (SO, Blaine, Minn./Spring Lake Park HS) earned his second save of the year, pitching 1.2 innings of scoreless baseball, allowing just two hits.
• Leading 5-4 going into the bottom of the sixth inning, the Auggies used a four-run frame to pull away for the victory.
Drew Jenkins (JR, Farmington, Minn./Randolph HS) drove in
Jorda Sivoravong (FY, Brooklyn Park, Minn./Osseo HS) on an RBI single,
Andruw Vela (SO, St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park HS) plated
Stanley Regguinti (JR, St. Louis Park, Minn./St. Louis Park HS) on an RBI single, and
Elijah Stewart (FY, Hopkins, Minn./Hopkins HS) hit a two-run double bto bring home Jenkins and Vela.
• Augsburg jumped on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning, as Jenkins and Vela walked, advanced a base on a throwing error, and Jenkins scored on a sacrifice fly by
Josh Udelhofen (SR, Janesville, Wis./Janesville Craig HS).
• Two runs came across in the third, as Udelhofen hit a two-run double to bring in Sivoravong and Jenkins.
• The Auggies scored twice in the fourth, as Regguinti hit a two-run double to bring home
Nick Hubbard (SR, Plymouth, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) and
Aaron Jones (SO, Phoenix, Ariz./Desert Vista HS).
• Regguinti and Hubbard had two hits each for the Auggies.
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
• The second game was a tight affair, with Bethel scoring a single run in the fourth inning and two more runs in the final frame. Augsburg had six base hits in the game, but stranded all six runners on-base.
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Manny Weiss (JR, Marion, Iowa/Linn-Mar HS) pitched 8.1 innings and threw 105 pitches (69 strikes), striking out two against a walk and nine hits.
Vincent Rupp (JR, Salt Lake City, Utah/Skyline HS) struck out one in relief.
• Hubbard hit two doubles for the Auggies, in the fifth and seventh innings. Jenkins also had two hits in the game for the Auggies.
FOR THE FOES
• Carson Christiansen went 2-for-2 with a double, two RBI and a run scored in the first game for Bethel.
• Zach Thompson and Oran Hinkle had two hits each in the second game, with Joe Meurer collecting two RBI.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg faces North Central University (Minn.) in a nonconference doubleheader on Wednesday (4/30) at 3 p.m., with the games played at Reynolds Field at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul.
