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Game 2 Box

CROOKSTON, Minn. – After splitting the first day of the two-day, four-game series on Saturday, the Northern State Wolves bounced back with a Sunday sweep of the host Minnesota, Crookston Golden Eagles to take the season series three games to one.  The Wolves claimed a 3-1 win in the opener, then rallied for an 8-3 win in ten innings in the series finale.
 
The sweep moves NSU to 8-13 overall and 3-5 in league play while the Golden Eagles slipped to 7-13 on the season and 2-6 in the loop.
 
NSU starter Clint Manzo scattered seven hits over seven innings and allowed just one run while striking out four in his complete-game outing.  Manzo also picked up his first win of the season.
 
The Wolves spotted Manzo an early 2-run lead on RBI singles from Robbie Rocamora and Max Myers in the top of the third inning.  UMC got one of those runs back in the bottom of the fifth, but NSU tacked on an insurance run with a Brent Lawrence RBI single.
 
The Wolves continued their day with a pair of big innings in Game 2.  NSU again took an early lead in the third, pushing three runs across the plate.  The Golden Eagles rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth, and a scoreless ninth sent the games into extra innings.
 
The Wolves took advantage right away in their half of the tenth, using two hits, a 2-run error and an RBI sacrifice bunt to push the go-ahead and four insurance runs across the plate and open up an 8-3 lead. 
 
Junior Buddy Traxler then made his first pitching appearance of the season to shut down the Golden Eagles in the bottom of the inning.  Traxler, who started the game at catcher, allowed a walk and a double, but struck out the next batter and induced a game-ending ground-out to preserve the NSU win.
 
Senior Trent Bestland picked up the win for the Wolves in relief of Rocamora, who made his second start of the season.  Bestland evened his record at 2-2 on the year.  Rocamora struck out four batters while allowing seven hits in his seven innings of work.
 
Lawrence ended the day with four hits, going 4-for-7 with one run scored and three driven in.  Jesse Gonzalez went 4-for-9 with three runs scored, including a 3-for-5 effort in the finale.  The top five batters in the NSU line-up combined for 15 of the Wolves' 18 hits on the day.
 
The Wolves remain on the road for a Tuesday doubleheader at the University of Mary before returning home for a four-game set against Winona State on Friday and Saturday.  Tuesday's action is set for a 1:30 p.m. start in Bismarck.