SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sixth seed Concordia-St. Paul (21-23) dropped its elimination game 11-3 on Wednesday evening to seventh seed Winona State (22-29) at Karras Park Home of Ronken Field in the NSIC / US Bank Tournament hosted by Augustana College.

The Warriors hand Concordia an NSIC Tournament loss for the third straight year as the Golden Bears close the season with three consecutive conference tournament appearances.

Winona State pounced early, scoring twice in the first inning on a two out, two run homer by Jesus Cazares. It was the first of two home runs on the day for Cazares as he added another two run homer in the sixth inning, finishing the day 4-5 with a double and four RBI in addition to the two homers.

WSU extended the lead to 7-0 in the second inning powered by Tyler Nehring's 10th home run of the year, a three run homer.

Concordia scored in three consecutive innings, attempting to chip away at the Warrior lead but stranded two runners on base in the first, third, fourth, sixth and seventh innings.

In the third, Connor Olson delivered a line drive sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and no outs to bring home Concordia's first run. Alex LaPorte hit an RBI single to center in the fourth and Eric Fasnacht homered the opposite field to right in the fifth.

After trimming the WSU lead to four at 7-3 in the fifth, WSU added four unearned runs in the sixth to pull away again.

Fasnacht went 2-4 with his 12th double and ninth homer of the year, finishing with a team high 37 RBI. Olson's RBI on the sacrifice fly pushed his season total to 32.

LaPorte finished the 2-3 with a double, run and an RBI while Kyle Dalton and David Henke each went 1-3 with a walk.

Kevin Woebke took the loss, falling to 4-4 on the year. Tyler Brekke worked 3.1 innings, allowing two hits and two unearned runs to lower his season ERA to 3.37. Yuji Suzuki pitched the next two frames, allowing a pair of unearned runs with a pair of strikeouts and Kody Knaus finished the contest with two shutout innings to push his final season ERA under four at 3.93.

Mitchell Salsberg picked up the win, improving to 4-3 for WSU as he struck out eight and walked six in six innings, allowing three runs.