The Northwestern College baseball team pushed eight runs across in the second inning, leading to a 12-4 win over Midland in game one of a GPAC doubleheader played this afternoon at Moeller Park in Fremont, Neb. Northwestern dropped the nightcap 13-5; the Raiders are now 9-13 in the GPAC, 16-22 overall.

    Game One: 12-4 win

• three straight singles from Evan Olesen, Colton Harold and Kip Cullinan, followed by a sacrifice fly by Sam Stanford, led to a two-run first inning
• Northwestern blew the game open with an 8-run second inning, sending 11 batters to the plate
  • Olesen had a two-run double
  • Harold smashed a two-run home run
  • Stanford, Sutton Derr and Jaden Snyder all contributed RBI singles
• Brett Shelton (5-3) shut down the Warrior bats over the final six innings, earning his team-leading fifth win of the season
• Ben Zeutenhorst pitched a scoreless first inning
• Northwestern totaled 15 hits, three each by Harold, Cullinan and Derr
  • Olesen, Stanford and Snyder all had two hits each

    Game Two: 13-5 loss

• the teams traded 3-run innings over the first three frames
  • Midland plated three runs in each of the first and third; Northwestern came back with three runs in the second
  • following a walk by Eli Rash, Stanford, Derr and Snyder all hit RBI singles, leading to the Northwestern runs
• Northwestern scored two runs in the top of the fourth, taking advantage of a Midland error and aggressive baserunning, trimming the Midland lead to 6-5
• Midland responded with a run in the fourth, fifth and put the game away with a three-run sixth inning
• The Raiders totaled six hits, all singles
  • Stanford and Derr both had two hits and scored a run
• Nate Rice (0-1), the second of six Northwestern pitchers, allowed one hit, three runs in 2.2 innings