Box Score The Northern State baseball team scored the most runs in a single game since 2008, Saturday when the Wolves defeated Southwest Minnesota State 24-13 in game two of a doubleheader with the Mustangs. The 24 runs are the most since NSU scored 25 against Valley City State. Southwest won game one 11-5.
Trailing 9-7 heading into the fifth inning, the Wolves (28-15, 21-11 NSIC) got a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth innings to take an 11-9 lead before exploding for 13 runs in the seventh inning.
Riley Shintaffer had a huge inning for NSU in the seventh as he collected five RBIs, three of which came on a home run to centerfield.
Matt Stubbs collected three RBI in the inning while
Clayton Nutting,
Robbie Rocamora and
Trevor Sporrer each had a pair of RBI. Northern also scored two runs on wild pitches in the inning.
For the game, Northern had three home runs, Shintaffer's, a
Maurice Rodriguez two-run bomb to left in the second and a Nutting three-run homer to left in the fourth. Shintaffer went 3-for-6 in the game with two runs scored. Nutting was 2-for-4 with five RBI and four runs scored.
Alex Cornwell also scored four times in the win and
Eric O' Bryan, Sporrer and
Buddy Traxler scored three times. In all, five Wolves had multiple-hit games and seven had two or more RBIs.
John Eckstein picked up the win for NSU to move to 4-3 on the year. Eckstein pitched 3.1 innings of relief in the game for starter
Cody Vandever. Eckstein and Vandever each recorded four strikeouts in the victory.
Cornwell and Rocamora each had two ribbies in game one. Rocamora's came via a home run to left center in the third inning his team-leading eighth of the season. Cornwell was 3-for-4 in the game one loss.
Colton Boucher was saddled with the loss in game one, dropping him to 6-3 on the year.
Adam Thompson pitched two innings of scoreless relief for the Wolves in the game. Thompson allowed no hits and had just one walk while striking-out four.
With the split, Northern now has 28 wins on the season, tying the mark set by the 1974 and '76 teams for the most wins in a single season in program history. The Wolves have a chance to surpass that mark when they finish their series with Southwest Sunday in a doubleheader beginning at noon.
