BEMIDJI, Minn. - The Concordia-St. Paul baseball team (23-20, 15-19 NSIC) erased a six-game losing skid with a dominant road doubleheader sweep over the Bemidji State Beavers (1-43, 0-34) on Saturday afternoon.
 
CSP opened the afternoon with a 17-5 victory in game one before claiming the series with a 16-4 run-rule victory in game two. With the wins, the Golden Bears improved their all-time record against the Beavers 51-22, extending the current win streak to 12.
 
Concordia collected 38 hits on the afternoon, which led to their 33 runs being scored. Senior Nick Thimsen slashed .500/.545/.1.200 with five hits, including a pair of home runs and a double. In addition, he scored five times and drove in five runners.
 
Kal Brohmer also had a career day with a team-leading .700 (7-10) batting average that led to four runs and three RBIs. Bryce Nelson and Mason Nadolney contributed with home runs, while Justin McGuigan matched Thimsen's five RBIs.
 
The Golden Bears will return to action tomorrow for the series finale against the Beavers with the first pitch from BSU Field slated to begin at 12 p.m.
 
GAME ONE: CSP 17, BSU 5
Concordia cruised to victory in the opening game of the doubleheader that was powered by a six-run third, four-run fourth and a five-run seventh to claim their 11th consecutive win over Bemidji State.
 
The Golden Bears racked up 17 hits, including six extra-base hits highlighted by home runs from Thimsen and Nadolney. Jaden Werner also shined from the batter's box with his first career four-hit game from the plate, while Brohmer tabbed his third three-hit game of the season and Nelson was a perfect 2-2 from the plate.
 
Korey Dahlberg (5-3) improved his record with an impressive showing on the bump against the Beavers. The Farmington, Minnesota native pitched his fourth complete game of the season, collecting five strikeouts in 5.0 innings and walking one of the 33 batters he faced.
 
BSU opened the game with early fireworks after Beau Thoma homered in the bottom of the first inning to take an early one-run advantage. However, their momentum was quickly halted as they did not plate a run until the fourth inning with a home run from Zach Evenson.
 
Nelson put the Golden Bears in the scoring column in the second inning with an RBI single. The offense momentum carried into the fourth inning with six runs on five hits highlighted by Thimsen's 12th home run of the season, and the fifth inning with four runs on a pair of hits that displayed Nadolney's 15th homer of the season.
 
Following a three-run sixth by the Beavers to bring them within seven, CSP answered firmly in the final frame with a five-run seventh, where McGuigan provided an extra-base hit with a two-RBI double to right center to help propel the Golden Bears to the dominant 17-5 victory.
 
GAME TWO: CSP 16, BSU 4 (Seven Innings)
Concordia shot out of a cannon with a five-run inning in the first to gain early momentum that carried till the final pitch of the 16-4 game two victory.
 
CSP's 21 hits are the most they have acquired in a single game this season, and the most since April 13, 2023, when they connected with 24 hits against the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. Nine of their hits went for extra-base hits, leading to 15 runners batted in.
 
Thimsen collected his first four-hit game for the Golden Bears since the 2022 season. The Minnetonka, Minnesota native tallied three RBIs and scored three while adding a pair of extra-base hits with a home run and double. Kal Brohmer also collected four hits, the first time the junior has hit this milestone in his career.
 
On the mound, Gavin Rusch (4-3) collected his fourth win of the season. The Green Bay, Wisconsin native collected a career-high seven strikeouts in 6.0 innings pitched and walked only one batter. Jack Greenlun made his ninth appearance of the season from the bullpen to pitch the final inning.
 
The Golden Bears picked up right where they left off in the opening innings with five runs on seven hits that was ignited by a lead off double from Koby McBroome, as everyone in the lineup had a shot at the plate against the Beavers starting pitcher, Dylan Hedley.
 
Following the Beavers plating a pair of runs from a two-run shot from Jack Munson, CSP responded with authority by collecting six-consecutive runs that included a home run and RBI double from Thimsen and two RBI doubles from Noah Juliar to take a commanding 11-2 lead.
 
Extra-base hits continued to be the name of the game at the midway point for CSP. In the fourth inning, McGuigan and Bennett McCollow drove in a pair of runs with RBI doubles that dropped into the right center gap to put the Golden Bears in front by double-digits. Later, Nelson added the second home run of the game in the fifth with his first bomb of the season (fifth career) that sailed out of the park in left field to make the score 14-2.
 
Bemidji State battled with runs in the fifth and sixth, highlighted by Thoma's second home run of the afternoon, but it was not enough to slow the Bears from adding their final two runs in the top of the seventh to secure the run-rule victory.