ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sophomore catcher Trett Joles went 4-4 with a double, home run, three runs and two RBIs to lift Concordia-St. Paul (20-25, 16-19 NSIC) to a 14-4 win to complete the three-game series sweep of Bemidji State (5-37, 4-31 NSIC) on Sunday afternoon on senior day at Barnes Field. 

Joles went 8-10 over the three game series, scoring five times, delivering four extra-base hits with two doubles and two homers, driving in seven with a pair of walks and didn't strike out. He also threw out a basestealer and only allowed a pair of stolen bases behind the plate. 

The sweep pushes Concordia another step closer to qualifying for the postseason, sitting a game behind a ninth-place tie between Tuesday's opponent Minnesota Duluth and Winona State (17-18) and two games behind a three-team tie for sixth place between Southwest Minnesota State, UMary and Minnesota Crookston (18-17). 

With five games to go, CSP plays at home on Tuesday against UMD (17-18) in a doubleheader, and at Sioux Falls (21-14) in a three-game weekend series on the road. 

Concordia has now won its last 16 games against Bemidji State.

Joles wasn't the only hot bat on Sunday, as senior Noah Juliar, hitting a spot ahead of Joles in the lineup (third), went 2-3 with two walks, his third home run, four runs scored and his third stolen base. Batting behind Joles in the fifth spot, Charlie Harms went 3-4 with a pair of runs and a walk. 

Kaden Johnson went 2-4 with his ninth double and two RBIs, and his spot in the lineup also produced the eventual walk-off hit with Tomas Lee pinch-hitting in the seventh and producing a two-run double to end the game. 

Senior Bennett McCollow continued his power surge, hitting his third home run on the weekend and ninth of the season to give Concordia its first lead in the first inning, 2-1 after BSU hit a solo homer in the top of the first. That wasn't all Concordia would get in the first, either, as Eric Berg would produce an RBI single the other way to right for an early 3-1 lead.

It was the first of three RBIs on the day for Berg, who went 2-3, while his spot in the lineup also produced a seventh-inning bases loaded walk by senior Jeremy McGuigan.

Leading 3-1, sophomore right handed starting pitcher Ian Segna took it from there as BSU wouldn't get another hit off of him until the fifth inning, finally scoring an unearned run as CSP made a pair of errors in the inning, scoring with two outs.

But by then, Segna had been working with a 5-run lead, with CSP scoring a run in the third on Joles' leadoff homer to right center and two more in the fourth on Joles' two-out RBI single through the right side and Berg's two-out single to left center.

Segna was done after five innings and 80 pitches in another strong start, picking up the win to improve to 6-2, allowing one earned run to lower his ERA to 3.83. He allowed two hits and worked around four walks while striking out three. 

Bemidji State would get another home run in the sixth, the second solo shot of the day for the Beavers, cutting the score to 6-3, but a 5-run sixth inning gave the Bears an insurmountable 11-3 advantage entering the late innings.

While the Beavers got a run back in the seventh off of their former teammate Christian Lindow, the converted Golden Bear was able to limit the damage, allowing a run on two hits with a strikeout to the five batters he faced as he followed Liam Bystol, who worked the sixth inning allowing the solo homer.

The Golden Bears scored three in the seventh, with McGuigan's bases loaded walk coming with no outs, and Lee's two-run game-ending double pulled down the right field line with one out. 

The CSP top and bottom hitters in the lineup, seniors Kal Brohmer and Koby McBroome, also joined in on the hit parade with Brohmer going 2-5 and McBroome 2-4 as CSP had 19 hits on the day including six for extra bases with three doubles and three homers. 

The CSP pitching staff held BSU to seven hits and the bullpen didn't issue any walks after Segna's departure. 

SERIES NOTES

• Trett Joles hit .800/.833/1.600 for a 2.433 OPS (8-10), with five runs, two doubles, two homers, seven RBIs, two walks and no strikeouts
• Noah Juliar hit .500/.571/.833 (6-12) with seven runs, a double, a homer, two RBIs, two walks and no strikeouts
• Koby McBroome hit .500/.545/.500 (5-10) with two runs, a walk and only one strikeout
• All 10 players who started in the lineup over the weekend hit at least .300
• Bennett McCollow hit .308/.357/1.000 (4-13) with three of his four hits leaving the yard and finishing second on the team with six RBIs
• All three of Will Husemann's hits on the weekend (3-9, .333) were doubles as he produced a .333/.500/.667 slash line
• Tomas lee had a big weekend, going 3-6 with a double and four RBIs, playing in all three games with one start
• Kaden Johnson drove in five, adding two extra-base hits with a double and a homer
• All three CSP starting pitchers earned victories on the mound, each allowing just one earned run for a 1.76 ERA in 15.1 innings, allowing 10 hits and seven walks with 11 strikeouts
• CSP's bullpen combined to allow two earned runs between five pitchers accumulating 5.2 innings for a 3.17 bullpen ERA with five hits, two walks and four strikeouts
• CSP held a 30-8 run margin, slashing .433/.504/.732 compared to BSU's .190/.297/.291 over the weekend
• The Golden Bears had a 2.14 team ERA to BSU's 14.73