Baseball | 5/3/2015 9:59:00 AM
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Box Score 2 St. Cloud State (47-3, 31-3 NSIC)Â came in as the top team in the nation and left the same way. In the process, the Huskies took the regular season NSIC Championship by beating the Wolves (25-24, 18-18 NSIC)Â 4-0 and 7-5. Northern State enters the postseason as the 8th seed and will play St. Cloud State Wednesday morning at 11am at Augustana College's Ronken Field.
Game 1
The Wolves outhit the the Huskies 7-5, but were unable to figure out SCSU Freshman Sheldon Miks, who won his 9th game this spring.
Phil Sauer, Sophomore from Forest Lake, Minnesota threw a complete game for the Wolves. Sauer scattered 5 hits and 4 earned over 7 innings. Freshman
Jack Schmidt and
Lucas Lorenz continue to lead the offense, as both went 2-3 in the game. Seniors
Mark Abrahamson,
Riley Shintaffer and
Alex Cornwell also collected 1 hit in the first game.
Between games, the NSU Baseball team gave thanks to Seniors
Brady Schwan,
Mark Abrahamson, Chiquel Davis,
Eric O'Bryan,
Kassidy Gaines,
Riley Shintaffer,
John Eckstein,
Alex Cornwell,
Travis Sormaz,
Kraig Nelson,
Cody Johns,
Buddy Traxler,
Clayton Nutting,
Robert Fahlin and
Kasey Gengler.
Game 2
The Huskies got out to a quick 4-0 lead off Senior starting pitcher
Cody Johns. Johns lasted 3 innings, giving up only 2 earned runs, with 1 walk and 1 strikeout. The Wolves got 3 consecutive doubles to start the bottom of the 4th inning.
Jack Schmidt,Â
Robert Fahlin and
Buddy Traxler, cutting the Huskies lead to 5-2. In the 5th inning after Shintaffer reached on an error, it was
Jack Schmidt doubling to right center scoring Shintaffer to make it 5-3. Huskies right fielder Karl Sorenson hit a 2 run homer in the top of the 7th to make it 7-3. Traxler cut the Huskies lead to 7-4Â with a single scoring
Jack Schmidt in the 8th.
Lucas Lorenz closed out the scoring with a solo homerun in the 9th, but the Wolves were unable to get anything going, losing 7-5.
The Wolves continue on to the postseason in Sioux Falls, S. D. Wednesday May 6th. The link to the postseason NSIC Championship can be seen
here.
