The Northwestern College baseball team split with Dakota Wesleyan in a home doubleheader played today to close the week with a 3-1 record. Northwestern defeated DWU 9-2 in game one and lost game two 14-4 (8 innings); both teams are now 4-8 in conference play.

    Game One: 9-2 win

• Scoring Plays
  • DWU scored an unearned run in the top of the first on a single by Cameron Quigley who came across after a sacrifice fly from Luke LeMay
  • Colton Harold tied the game with a solo home run on a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the bottom of the first
  • Joseph Hanisch singled home the Tigers second run, scoring Tyler Torres who reached base on a double to start the 2nd inning
  • Northwestern went ahead for good with a five-run, third inning; Harold hit a grand slam and Sam Stanford followed with a solo shot
  • The Raiders padded their lead with a run in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings
    • Jaden Snyder tripled home pinch runner Hunter Rynders in the fourth
    • Mason Porepp hit a two-out, solo home run in the fifth
    • Stanford drove in the final run with a single in the sixth, scoring Snyder
• By the Numbers
  • Dylan Kirkeby (W: 2-1) pitched the final five innings, giving up three hits to go with a career-best eight strikeouts
  • Harold went 2/3, 2 HR, 5 RBI; the senior has hit eight home runs this season
  • Stanford and Sutton Derr both added two hits
  • DWU was led by Cameron Quigley with two hits
  • Seth Christiansen (1-2) took the loss, pitching the first three innings

    Game Two: 14-4 loss (8 innings)

• DWU plated two unearned runs in the first; Luke LeMay hit a sac fly, scoring Tyler Torres
• Drew DeMers hit an RBI double and Dalton Wilcoxen added a two-run home run to put the Tigers up 6-0 after two innings
• Wilcoxen added an RBI double in the Tigers' 2-run fourth and an 8-0 lead
• Sutton Derr gave Northwestern its first run on an RBI groundout, scoring Sam Stanford; J.D. Wonder added a pinch-hit, RBI double to make the score 8-2 after four
• LeMay led off the fifth inning with a solo home run
• Stanford hit an RBI single, scoring Noa Vogel, in the bottom of the fifth (9-3 score)
• Vogel led off the bottom of the seventh with a home run, cutting the DWU lead to 9-4
• DWU put the game away with a five-run 8th inning; Torres hit a two-run double and Wilcoxen hit an RBI double

        By the Numbers:

• Northwestern totaled 10 hits, four Raiders had two hits each
  • Evan Olesen: 2/5
  • Noa Vogel: 2/3, HR, 2 runs, RBI
  • Colton Harold: 2/4
  • Sam Stanford: 2/3, RBI, run
• Edison Goodlow (L: 0-1) gave up two unearned runs for the loss
• Jared Jones (W: 3-1) scattered 10 hits over seven innings, six K's
• DeMers 3/4, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Wilcoxen 3/5, HR, 4 RBI