ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Concordia-St. Paul baseball team (17-28, 11-22 NSIC) closed out the 2022 season with a 15-2 loss in seven innings to Winona State (16-21, 14-12 NSIC) at Barnes Field on Saturday afternoon.
The Warriors completed the weekend sweep to drop the Golden Bears to 38-45 in the all-time series between the two schools.
On Senior Day, it was senior
Shea Pekarek who provided a highlight as the CSP first baseman launched his first career home run in the fifth.
Fellow senior
Jarod Wandersee closed out his career with two of the team's four hits while also being hit by a pitch in the game to bring his season slash line to .317/.429/.444 and his career slash line to .309/.413/.455 with 106 hits over his four seasons.
Senior
JT Hoffmann collected his fourth hit of the weekend, an RBI double in the fourth to get the Golden Bears on the board, while
Jack Young added a hit of his own to bring a strong senior season to a close with a .285 batting average.
Carter Shook added a single as well.
On the mound, senior
Michael Voss made his second start of the season and 14
th of his career as he worked the first 4.0+ innings, allowing three hits and striking out five in the loss. Senior
Joey Atkinson added a scoreless inning of work while senior
Ryan Fering struck out three in his 1.1 innings of action.
WSU's Bailey Banaszynski (1-3) claimed his first win of the season as he allowed just two runs on five hits while walking one and striking out six in 5.0 innings. Zach Watzka and Nevin Wall each chipped in a scoreless inning in relief to secure the run-rule victory.
The duo of Austin Beyer and Derek Baumgartner did the heavy lifting at the plate for the Warriors as Beyer finished 3-5 with a homer and five driven in while Baumgartner delivered a grand slam in the fifth as a part of a 2-4 performance in the win.
