The Northwestern College baseball team hit four home runs in defeating Mount Marty 11-5 in game two of a conference doubleheader played today in Orange City, Iowa. The Raiders dropped game one by the score of 20-5; they have now split their last four doubleheaders and are 11-15 in the GPAC, 18-24 overall. 

Colton Harold had quite a day at the plate, especially in game two where the senior hit two home runs and went 4/5 with four runs and three RBI. Kip Cullinan also hit a home run, going 3-for-6 with two runs and two RBI. Jaden Snyder was the third Raider to hit a home run and with multiiple hits, going 2/4 with two RBI. 

Nate Rice (1-1) earned his first win of the season, pitching two hitless innings in relief of Northwestern starter, Evan Olesen, who pitched the first four innings. Brady Roberts picked up his second save as he closed the game with three scoreless innings. 

The Lancers scored four runs in the top of the first inning of Olesen, who gave up just two hits and one run after the rocky first inning. Josh Roemen hit a two-run home run and both Billy Hancock and Caid Koletzky followed with solo shots.

Harold and Cullinan hit back-to-back solo home runs in the bottom of the first as the Raiders narrowed the Mount Marty lead to 4-2. Both team tacked on a run in the third; Snyder hit an RBI double, scoring Sam Stanford from second. Northwestern went ahead for good with three runs in the fourth, taking advantage of two Mount Marty errrors to go with two hits, one by Harold and an RBI single by Stanford. 

Northwestern padded its lead with a four-run sixth, the first scored on Snyder's solo home run. Both Olesen and Cullinan hit RBI doubles in the inning. Harold's second home run, a solo shot in the eighth inning, completed the scoring.

Northwestern outhit the Lancers 13-7; both teams committed two errors.

Myles Brown (0-1), one of four Lancer pitchers, took the loss, giving up three runs in two innings. Roemen was the lone Mount Marty player with multiple hits, going 2/5 with two runs scored. 

Northwestern pitchers gave up a season-high 22 hits and 20 runs in its game one loss. Brad Tornow (0-1) allowed six runs, six hits in 1.2 innings for the loss. 

The Lancers hit eight home runs in game one, two each from Mason Townsend and Caid Koletzky, who drove in five runs. Tommy Alitz, Josh Roeman, Billy Hancock and Zane Salley also went yard for the Lancers. 

Tied at one, Mount Marty scored six runs in the second, five more in the fourth, tacked on three in the fifth and finished with a five-run seventh inning. Tyler Priest (8-2) was the beneficiary of the run support, earning his eighth win of the season, giving up six hits and four runs in five innings.

Northwestern totaled seven in game one, led by Cullinan, who went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI. Jacob Kindhart belted his first career home run, a solo shot in the bottom of the seventh.