ST. PAUL, Minn. – Winners of nine of their last 12 NSIC contest, Concordia-St. Paul (15-15, 11-9 NSIC) will head to St. Cloud State (15-15, 11-9 NSIC) as the two teams look to break the NSIC logjam in the league standings with a Wednesday doubleheader at 1:30 p.m. at Joe Faber Field.  

CSP is coming off of a series win over Southwest Minnesota State (17-10, 12-8 NSIC), taking 3-of-4 from the Mustangs at Veterans Field in Minnetonka. The Huskies picked up a 4-game series sweep from Northern State with the series relocated to Maple Grove, Minnesota to snap a 5-game losing streak in NSIC games.
 
Against common opponents, SCSU and CSP have both picked up 3-1 series wins from Southwest Minnesota State and 4-game series sweeps of Northern State at neutral sites.
 
The two teams are part of a 4-team tie for fifth place in the NSIC standings, trailing SMSU (12-8) by just one game, Wayne State (13-7) by two games, and second-place Augustana (14-6) by three games.
 
Meanwhile, Minnesota Crookston (10-10) sits just one game back while Minnesota Duluth and UMary (9-11) are two games behind.
 
The Golden Bears secured the 100^th win in head coach Neil Lerner's career. He's been head coach since the COVID-shortened 2020 season, and is the third to reach the milestone in Concordia's 4-year college-era (1967-68 to present).
 
The games will be streamed on the NSIC Network and feature live in-game statistics to follow along online.
 
SERIES HISTORY: SCSU 42, CSP 19 (1 tie)
Concordia and St. Cloud State have met 62 times dating back to 2002 with 42 of those meetings marked as official NSIC regular season contests.

The Huskies lead the all-time series 42-19-1, but Concordia has won three of the last five in the series, with all three wins being 1-run victories and four of the five contests being decided by a single run. The last time the teams played, CSP picked up a 6-5 win in the 2024 NSIC Tournament in Mandan, North Dakota.
 
In the series, Concordia has played at SCSU for 23 road games, holding a 7-16 road record against the Huskies with the last trip to SCSU for a single-game loss on April 11, 2022 after a neutral site doubleheader in Roseville, Minnesota the day before. Concordia has dropped its last six road games at SCSU, the last win coming on April 7, 2017 in game one of a four-game set.
 
Head coach Neil Lerner holds a 4-8 record against the Huskies and is 0-1 in away games at SCSU.
 
ABOUT THE HUSKIES
Coming off of a fourth-place finish in the NSIC regular season standings in 2024 (28-11) in which the Huskies finished just a game out of second, SCSU produced a 32-19 overall record but had an 0-2 showing to end their season at the 2024 NSIC Baseball Tournament in North Dakota, eliminated in a 6-5 decision by Concordia.
 
Entering the season, SCSU was slated fourth in the 2025 NSIC Preseason Coaches' Poll in mid-January. In non-conference play, SCSU dropped a pair of 3-game series, picking up one win in each road trip to Missouri Southern State who was ranked #11 in the nation at the time, as well as a 2-1 series loss at Truman State (Mo.). SCSU also split a 4-game series against Adams State (Colo.) played in Phoenix.
 
The Huskies opened NSIC play in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at Augustana, splitting with the Vikings who were ranked fifth in the country at the time in late February. SCSU has also had to tangle with Minnesota State, who was ranked #10 and #6 in the national polls at the time of the series with MSU picking up a 4-game sweep in St. Cloud at Dick Putz Field, adjacent to SCSU's home of Faber Field.
 
Aside from the common opponents of Northern State and SMSU, SCSU has also faced Sioux Falls, securing a split in the 4-game road series last month.
 
Offensively, SCSU is led by Liam Moreno's 1.029 OPS (.352/.467/.562) with a team-high 30 runs, 10-11 stolen bases and tied for team-high five home runs. He's added seven doubles, 18 RBIs, and a combined 26 walks/HBPs. Joining him with five home runs on the year are Ethan Navratil (who has a team-high 34 RBIs) and Hayden Konkol, who each have .949 OPS on the year. Blaine Guthrie leads the Huskies with a .495 OBP, tied with Moreno and Taehyung Kim with a .352 average, as Guthrie has a team-high 17 walks. Wilmis Castro gives the Huskies a deep lineup, leading the team with 11 doubles and is one of seven Huskies producing a .301 or better season batting average, with seven SCSU players also producing a .411-plus OBP and seven producing a .450-plus slugging percentage and eight Huskies producing an .812 or better OPS.
 
POTENTIAL PITCHING MATCHUPS
With each team competing in their first NSIC midweek doubleheaders and coming off of a 4-game weekend series, combined with Division II baseball teams not announcing pitching plans, this section is speculation based on recent and season-long team usage trends.
 
SCSU:
Kahler Key (8 app, 1 GS, 0-3, 9.37 ERA, 2.14 WHIP, 16.1 IP, 19-14 SO-BB, .304 oav)
Camden Lyke (6 app, 5 GS, 2-3, 9.64 ERA, 2.21 WHIP, 14.0 IP, 8-19 SO-BB, .240 oav)
 
CSP:
Leo Bustos (5 app, 2 GS, 1-0, 2.79 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 9.2 IP, 6-6 SO-BB, .226 oav)
Andrew Boeser (4 app, 1 GS, 17.36 ERA, 4.29 WHIP, 4.2 IP, 8-9 SO-BB, .480 oav)
 
PLAYER NOTES:
Bennett McCollow (2B-27, DH-3 | 1^st-1, 2^nd-25, 3^rd-4)
2025: 30 GP, .301/.443/.544 (31-103), 23 R, 7 2B, 6 HR, 16 RBI, 21-19 BB-SO
Career: 81 GP, .381/.486/.643 (112-294), 87 R, 25 2B, 2 3B, 16 HR, 69 RBI, 46-51 BB-SO

• Opened season reaching base (H, BB, HBP) in 14-straight games, extending his streak to 28 games
• Has reached base safely in 25 of 30 games
• Second on the team with 11 multi-hit games
• 8^th NSIC with 0.70 walks per game
• 9^th NSIC with 6 home runs
• Ranks 5^th in CSP history with a .486 career OBP
• Ranks 10^th in CSP history with a .381 average (112-294)
• 2025 NCBWA (DH) & D2 Baseball (2B) Preseason All-America First Team
• 2024 D2 Baseball All-America Second Team (2B) & 64 Analytics D2 All-America (DH)
• 2024 All-Central Region Team (D2CCA, ABCA, NCBWA)
• 2024 NSIC Newcomer of the Year
• 2024 All-NSIC First Team & NSIC All-Tournament Team

 
Noah Juliar (RF-30 | 3^rd-26, 4^th-4)
2025: 30 GP, .404/.461/.526 (46-114), 18 R, 9 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 20 RBI, 12-15 BB-SO
Career: 125 GP, .340/.405/.525 (156-459), 94 R, 28 2B, 9 3B, 13 HR, 119 RBI, 51-82 BB-SO, 5-5 SB

• Opened season on 12-game hitting streak and 13-game reach base streak, extending his overall reach base streak to 25 games
• Has reached base safely in 29 of 30 games on the season and hit safely in 26 of 30 games
• Riding a 16-game reach base streak, his second of at least 12 games isolated to the 2025 season
• Leads team with 14 multi-hit games including five games with 3-plus hits
• 2^nd NSIC with 46 hits & 60^th DII with 1.53 hits per game
• 6^th NSIC (71^st DII) with .404 average
• 8^th NSIC with nine doubles
• Ranks 4^th in CSP history with 9 triples
• Ranks 8^th in CSP history with 119 RBIs
• 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team

 
Kal Brohmer (LF-17, 1B-5, DH-7) | 1^st-13, 2^nd-4, 5^th-1, 6^th-8, 7^th-3)
2025: 29 GP, .287/.407/.351 (27-94), 18 R, 2 2B, 2 3B, 0 HR, 21 RBI, 21-17 BB-SO, 4-5 SB, .970 fld
Career: 151 GP, .308/.421/.389 (145-471), 94 R, 20 2B, 6 3B, 2 HR, 82 RBI, 92-92 BB-SO, 9-13 SB, .991 fld

• Opened season reaching base safely in 14 games, extending streak to 25 games
• Has reached base successfully in 27 of 29 games
• Second on the team with five multi-RBI games
• T-1^st NSIC with two triples
• 3^rd NSIC (98^th DII) with four sacrifice bunts
• 6^th NSIC with three sacrifice flies
• 6^th NSIC with 0.72 walks/game
• Ranks t-1^st in CSP history with 10 sacrifice flies
• Ranks t-3^rd in CSP history with 92 walks
• Ranks 5^th in CSP history with 703 putouts
• Ranks 6^th in CSP history with six triples
• Ranks 8^th in CSP history with 55 double plays turned
• CSP has 9-4 record when batting leadoff
• 2022 All-NSIC Second Team (DH)

 
Koby McBroome (SS-28 | 1^st-14, 6^th-2, 9^th-12)
2025: 28 GP, .245/.366/.394 (23-94), 20 R, 4 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR, 18 RBI, 16-20 BB-SO, 6-8 SB
Career: 91 GP, .258/.402/.385 (73-283), 75 R, 12 2B, 3 3B, 6 HR, 40 RBI, 65-72 BB-SO, 7-9 SB

• Had a 10-game reached base streak earlier this season
• Has reached base safely in 23 of 28 games on the year
• Second on the team with five multi-RBI games
• Had three games with 3-plus RBIs in a 6-game stretch (vs Tiffin, NWMSU, Park Gilbert)
• T-1^st NSIC with two triples
• CSP has 9-3 record when batting in 9^th spot in lineup

 
Will Husemann (3B-30 | 4^th-19, 5^th-5, 6^th-6)
2025: 30 GP, .268/.336/.420 (30-112), 20 R, 3 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 22 RBI, 9-34 BB-SO, 3-3 SB
Career: 48 GP, .290/.355/.471 (45-155), 28 R, 5 2B, 1 3B, 7 HR, 35 RBI, 12-49 BB-SO, 3-3 SB

• Had a team-high 17-game reached base streak
• Has reached base in 25 of 30 games on the season
• Leads the team with nine multi-RBI games
• Leads the team with 22 RBIs
• CSP has 5-1 record when batting in 6^th spot in lineup

 
MISCELLANEOUS PLAYER NOTES:

• Freshman Eric Berg is third on the team in hitting at .294 (25-85) and fourth in doubles (6)
• Catcher Trett Joles is third on the team with three home runs and fourth on the team with a .393 OBP with a team-high 12 HBP
• Center fielder Kaden Johnson leads the team in stolen bases (9-9) and is second on the team in doubles (7)
• First baseman Charlie Harms holds a 17-15 BB-SO ratio and has scored 16 runs while starting 21 games and playing in 27 overall with a .381 OBP
• Redshirt freshman infielder Jack Setterlund leads the team and is third in the NSIC with four sacrifice bunts, a mark that is 98^th in the country
• CSP is 5-2 when Joles bats 5^th, 7-4 when Berg hits fifth, 5-1 when Husemann hits sixth, 3-0 when Berg hits sixth, 7-3 when Harms hits seventh and 9-4 when Johnson hits eighth

 
PITCHING NOTES: (weekend SP and Piontek notes excluded due to weekend workload)

• Senior Jack Greenlun leads the team with 12 relief appearances, working 19.2 innings out of the bullpen with 21 strikeouts and a .225 opponent average with a win and three saves.
• Greenlun has allowed 1 or 0 runs in eight of his 12 appearances
• In two seasons as a pitcher, he's struck out 36 batters in 38.2 innings in 23 appearances
• Senior Leo Bustos has five appearances and two starts and opened the season by not allowing an earned run in his first four appearances (two starts) spanning 8.2 innings. On the year, Bustos has a 1-0 record with a 2.79 ERA in 9.2 innings with a .226 opponent average and six strikeouts
• Redshirt freshman Liam Bystol, one of three LHP in the bullpen, has a 1.80 ERA in 10.0 IP in seven appearances, striking out eight with a 1.30 WHIP and .205 oav. He opened the year with 5.2 scoreless innings in his first three appearances and is coming off of back-to-back 2.0 IP scoreless and no-hit appearances against UMary (3/13) and UMC (3/27). Last weekend, he pitched once, getting one out on three pitches in high leverage against SMSU.
• Junior Christian Lindow has struck out 12 batters in 13.1 innings across eight relief appearances, the second-most appearances on the team. He's 2-0 with a save, a 6.08 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP while holding opposing hitters to a .213 oav.
• In Lindow's last appearance, he worked 3.1 innings and picked up the win over UMC, allowing just a hit and a walk on 41 pitches. He's allowed just one earned run over his last 7.0 innings spanning three appearances with four hits and three walks allowed for a 1.00 WHIP.
• In Piontek's career, he has 107.1 career IP in 38 appearances with 23 starts and a 4-7 lifetime record, striking out 84 with an 8.47 ERA.
• Junior Ollie Yuhas, one of three LHP in the bullpen, has pitched to a 3.97 ERA and 0.88 WHIP in 11.1 IP across six appearances with a 6-3 SO-BB ratio and .184 oav. He hasn't allowed more than one hit in an appearance since allowing three hits in 2.0 IP in his debut on 2/24 and has pitched four times in a row without issuing a walk covering 7.1 IP
• Junior Cooper Mollet has recorded a 3.52 ERA and 0.65 WHIP in 7.2 innings with an 8-2 SO-BB ratio in six appearances, holding hitters to a .115 average. He's yet to allow more than one hit to an opponent and struck out four in 2.0 innings with an unearned run allowed against Crown. He's worked three-straight scoreless outings, 1.0 inning each without a hit or walk and three strikeouts against UMary, at Upper Iowa, and against SMSU.
• Jake McNeil and Sam Cooper have combined for four shutout appearances with two apiece, McNeil working 2.0 shutout innings while Cooper has pitched 1.1 scoreless and hitless innings
• Seven different pitchers have started a game for CSP this year, 10 pitchers have secured a win, and four different pitchers have secured at least one save.