Tucson, Ariz. – The Northern State University baseball team tallied their second comeback victory in as many days, with a 16-13 win over Mount Marty College. The victory marked the 100^th of head coach Dean Berry's career at Northern State, and improved the team to 2-0 overall.
 
The two teams were scoreless through the first inning of play, however Mount Marty jumped out to a quick 8-0 lead in the top of the second. Northern began to chip away in the bottom half of the inning with a run of their own and scored in each inning there-after. Ben Allen singled to lead off the second for the Wolves and scored on a Tyler Gripentrog single with two outs.
 
Northern added a pair of runs in the bottom of the third off the bat of Allen for his first RBI of the game. The Lancers lengthened the lead in the fourth with a run, however Northern answered back with their highest scoring inning of the game. Easton Lopez opened the NSU scoring with a single, plating Gripentrog who had reach on an error. Matt Stubbs and Ben Allen followed with two RBI each on a double and home run. Stubbs plated Lopez and Jack Schmidt, who had singled. At the end of four complete, the Wolves trailed by just one.
 
Mount Marty would not let the game slip away easily as they knocked out three more runs in the top of the fifth and one in the seventh. The Wolves continued to threaten with two runs in the fifth, and a lead capturing four runs in the sixth. Lopez tripled in the sixth with Gripentrog and Mikey Barreneche on first and second. The duo scored, tying the game at 12 all. Sophomore Jack Schmidt sealed the lead for the Wolves with his second homerun of the season, after Lopez scored on a passed ball.
 
Allen and Schmidt led the NSU offense going 4-for-5 from the plate, with three and two runs batted in respectively. The duo also accounted for four of the team's seven extra base hits, as Schmidt tallied a double and a homerun, and Allen recorded a triple and a homerun. Lopez, Stubbs, Barreneche, and Preston Brown all recorded multiple hit games, while Gripentrog and Lucas Lorenz notched the team's final two hits.
 
Phil Sauer started on the hill for NSU throwing 1.1 innings with four hits and one strikeout. Nick Hoffard and Andrew Nichols entered in relief for throwing a combined 3.2 innings. Erick Cervenka entered for the Wolves in the sixth and ultimately tallied his first win of the season. Cervenka threw 1.2 innings, giving up only two hits and one earned run, while striking out three. Dillon Lee threw a solid 1.2 innings in the seventh, eighth, and ninth giving up only one hit and striking out one. Northern State's single season save record holder, Marcus Manderbach entered in the ninth and tallied his first save of the season. Manderbach faced three batters and tallied his first strikeout of the season.
 
The Wolves are back in action tonight versus St. Cloud State and Northwestern College at 3 and 7 p.m. mountain time. Stats will be posted as they become available.