ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The Concordia-St. Paul baseball team (15-13, 9-7 NSIC) dropped the final game of the series to St. Cloud State (18-10, 10-4 NSIC) by a score of 17-7 in eight innings on Monday afternoon at Joe Faber Field.
Concordia will now take on Minot State in a doubleheader on Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. at First National Bank of River Falls Field.
The Golden Bears fell to 16-39-1 in the all-time series with the Huskies as SCSU completed the three-game sweep on Monday.
It was a high scoring affair in the series final as the two teams combined for 27 runs in less than innings in the contest.
CSP received hits from six different players with
Jarod Wandersee,
Jack Young and
Kal Brohmer all delivering doubles. Wandersee added two walks, an RBI and a pair of runs scored while Young also scored twice and drew a walk. Brohmer chipped in an RBI in the contest.
Brayden Roybal continued to draw walks at an impressive clip as he walked three times and collected a single to bump his on-base percentage back up to .500 on the year.
Matt Pietsch made it three homers in the past 10 games as he launched a three-run blast in the seventh.
Korey Dahlberg (4-1) was tagged with his first loss of his young career as he worked 4.1 innings, allowing four earned runs on five hits and striking out one.
After three frames, the score was just 1-0 in favor of the Huskies, but the floodgates opened from there. CSP jumped in front with two in the top of the fourth before SCSU responded with two of their own in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead at 3-2.
Concordia responded with a run on a Wandersee RBI groundout in the next half inning to tie it up at 3-3, but St. Cloud State struck again with two in their half of the fifth and four more in the sixth to build a 9-3 edge.
The Golden Bears showed their resilience with four in the seventh on Pietsch's three-run shot and Brohmer's run-scoring double to trim it to two at 9-7. That would be all the closer they would get, however, as the Huskies scored five more in the bottom of the seventh and three more in the eighth to bring the run rule into effect.