ST. PAUL, Minn. - On a cold, windy and drizzly Sunday afternoon at Carlander Field, Concordia-St. Paul stayed hot by posting a pair of wins over Northern State, 9-1 in five innings before a comeback 10-7 win in game two to extend their winning streak to five games.

The Golden Bears improve to 30-11-1 overall and 13-9 in the Northern Sun to move into sixth place in the league standings, 1.5 games ahead of Upper Iowa (11-10), who will be CSP's next opponent on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Carlander Field. It's Concordia's third 30-plus win season in the last five years while Northern State falls to 11-33 overall and 3-19 NSIC.

Concordia scored 19 rounds in the doubleheader, picking up 21 hits while striking out only seven times. CSP produced five doubles and a home run, as well.

Freshmen Sydney Pelzer and Avery Johnson continued their hot streaks, as Pelzer went 4-4 with two runs, five RBIs and her ninth double will moving her team-high in RBIs to 38. Johnson went 3-7 with two runs, three RBIs, her second home run in as many days and her fourth double of the year.

GAME 1: CSP 9, NSU 1 (5 innings)
Concordia jumped on Northern State early and didn't let up, as Clara Heislen led off with a double, the first of three doubles to left field in the inning, joined by Amanda Parsons' RBI double and Sydney Pelzer's RBI double before Avery Johnson followed with a 2-run home run to the opposite field in right for a 4-0 lead.

In the second inning, CSP extended the lead to 5-0 with a 2-out rally, with Alexus Houston drawing a 2-out walk to move Cam Veenbaas into scoring position, coming in on Grace Beseman's RBI single through the right side.

Concordia blew the game open in the third, scoring four unearned runs for a 9-0 lead.

Meanwhile, sophomore Bryanna Olson quietly carried a no-hit bid into the fourth inning, coming five outs shy of the no-no. She allowed only two hits on the day, a 1-out single in the fourth inning and a 1-out home run in the fifth. She added three strikeouts to pick up the win, improving to 16-6 on the year.

Parsons went 2-3 in the game, picking up where she left off on Saturday when she went 7-8 in the doubleheader sweep of MSU Moorhead. the double was her 15th, and she added a run and an RBI. Pelzer was 2-2 with two runs, her ninth double and an RBI while Johnson was 1-3 with two runs, two RBIs and her second home run of the season.

GAME 2: CSP 10, NSU 7
In game two, it was Northern State who would put up a 4-run first inning to take a commanding early game lead, using a 2-out, 3-run home run.

Concordia stayed patient, scoring twice in the bottom of the inning on Sydney Pelzer's 2-out, 2-run single. 

From there, starting pitcher Erica McCullough settled into a groove, not rattled by the big 2-out homer in the first by the Wolves. She faced the minimum in the second through fifth innings, working around a couple of singles by inducing a double play in the third with senior catcher Amanda Parsons nabbing a runner stealing in the fourth.

McCullough's work in the circle allowed the Golden Bears to methodically comeback, using an Alexus Houston walk and stolen base in the third to score on an error before a big 3-run fifth inning to take the lead with Houston starting with a double with RBI singles by Grace Beseman and Sydney Pelzer coming on either side of a walk to Parsons. Jacey Defries added a sacrifice fly to center for a 6-4 lead entering the late innings.

In the sixth, McCullough pitched around a pair of singles by securing a fly out to center and a pop-out to second, preserving the lead with three outs to go.

She received some support in the bottom of the inning with four straight singles from the 1-4 hitters in the lineup, with Parsons driving in a run with a single to center and Pelzer adding a sacrifice fly to right. Johnson added an RBI double with pinch hitter Annalise Scamehorn driving in a run with a groundout for a 10-4 lead.

The Wolves picked up three more runs in the seventh, but with first and third with one out and two runs in, Parsons threw behind the runner at first, in a pick-off/caught stealing situation which allowed NSU to score its third run of the inning, but securing the second out for CSP in the process with McCullough inducing a groundout to end the game to the same hitter.

McCullough picked up a 3-win weekend, going the distance with three strikeouts and no walks to improve to 8-5.

Houston and Beseman were on base all game for CSP out of the 2-3 spots in the lineup, combining to go 6-7 with seven runs and an RBI. Houston was 3-3 with four runs and a walk while Beseman was 3-4 with three runs and an RBI. Parsons continued her tear, hitting safely in her eighth straight while going 1-3 with a run, a walk and an RBI. Pelzer followed Parsons in the lineup in the fifth spot with a 2-2, four RBI performance for her first 4-RBI effort while leading the team with 12 multi-RBI games. In the sixth spot, Avery Johson went 2-4 with an RBI as the 2-6 spots in the lineup combined to go 11-15 with nine runs and seven RBIs.

Between the 2-3-4-5 hitters in CSP's lineup, they've each reached base safely (H, BB, HBP) in eight straight games with Houston's 10 game streak leading the way.