CROOKSTON, Minn. - The Minnesota, Crookston pitching staff had a rough outing on Wednesday as Northern State topped the Golden Eagles 4-2 and 10-2.  The Wolves are now 12-26 on the year and 9-19 in the NSIC.  UMC is 3-32 overall, 1-27 in the league.  Weather permitting, the Wolves will play Presentation College this afternoon and will conclude the regular season this weekend at Concordia-St. Paul.

NSU VS. UMC GAME 1 BOX SCORE

The Wolves were out-hit 7-10 in the first game of the afternoon, but the NSU pitching staff managed to get out of tight jams in a number of innings to stay in the game.  The Golden Eagles went up 2-0 with runs in the second and third innings, but they stranded runners at third base in each of the first five innings played.

Tom Keiser led off the fourth inning with a walk and later scored on a James Paul single.  Two additional batters reached base on walks in the fifth.  A batsman hit by pitch loaded the bases and the Wolves took the lead on the next at-bat.  Lucas Jung sac flied to left field to score Adam Kampsen and an error by UMC's shortstop allowed Matt Tales to score the go-ahead run.  The Wolves added a security run in the sixth and took the game by a final score of 4-2.

Nathan Zacher got the win for the Wolves and Tyler Bauman earned the save.  Mitch Locke and Paul each went 2-for-3 in the game, Locke scoring a run and Paul driving one in.

NSU VS. UMC GAME 2 BOX SCORE

The Wolves scored 10 runs from seven hits in the second game, with UMC errors making six of the runs unearned.  Aaron Kappes drove in two runs with a double in the second inning to give NSU the first lead.  Seven more runs followed in a huge third inning.  Highlighting the inning was a Keiser two-run dinger and an Andrew Lunsetter single that drove in another two runs.   The Golden Eagles committed four errors in the inning.

Matt Geissler got the starting nod in the second game.  He walked three batters in the first inning, but settled down and allowed only two runners on the path for the remainder of his five innings of work.  Geissler struck out nine batters and gave up only one hit.  The Golden Eagles scored two runs in their last at-bat, but the Wolves got out of the inning and took the 10-2 win.

Northern came up with seven hits in the game, including two from Keiser, who drove in two runs and scored once.