WICHITA, Kan. - Mason Nadolney led Concordia-St. Paul baseball (3-0) with a pair of homers to complete the sweep over the Newman Jets (1-11) with an 18-10 win at McCarthy Park on Monday afternoon.
 
The Golden Bears will open conference play next weekend against the Minot State Beavers at Joe Becker Stadium in Joplin, Missouri. Saturday and Sunday's double-headers are slated to begin at 12 p.m., with game two immediately following shortly afterwards.
 
Concordia recorded 18 runs on 16 hits as a team. In doing so, they now hold a 4-3 series all-time advantage over the Newman Jets. This is the first time the Golden Bears have claimed a season-opening series since 2021 after besting Purdue Northwest 3-1.
 
Nadolney had an outstanding game in the Navy and Gold with a pair of home runs and seven RBIs on a 3-hit afternoon. Two other players reached three hits for the game, as Senior Jaden Werner and Bennett McCollow each went 3-5 from the plate. Werner also had a homer run, while McCollow added six RBIs to his impressive debut series at Concordia.
 
The pitching staff was busy with five players throwing from the bump throughout the game. Reece Piontek made his ninth career start for the Golden Bear and pitched a perfect 2.0 innings on the mound in the no decision. Freshman Ian Segna (1-0) made his first collegiate appearance and picked up the win, and Matt Sherman led CSP with a pair of strikeouts.
 
Much like the opening two games of the series, CSP dominated the opening innings of action to take a 10-0 lead. Newman battled throughout the game and cut the game to four runs as late as the seventh innings but could not keep pace with the Golden Bears, who scored eight runs in the final six innings in route to the eighth-run victory on the road.
 
CSP picked up where they left off less than 24 hours ago in the opening two innings of action. An RBI double from Nadolney sparked the scoring after driving in McCollow and Kal Brohmer at the top of the first. Werner and McCollow added to the scoring during that time with an RBI single and 3-RBI double, respectively, before Nadolney blasted a 3-run homer in the second to extend CSP's lead to 10-0.
 
After hitting a three-inning scoring skid, Nadolney awoke the Bears' offense with his fourth home run of the season in the sixth. Jaden Werner added his first homer of the season in the eighth, and Koby McBroome added a 2-RBI single in the ninth, before Sherman closed out the game and secured the 18-10 victory for CSP.