ST. PAUL, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul (20-22, 15-15 NSIC) stayed red-hot, using a 10-run fifth inning in a 13-8 comeback win to sweep the three-game series with Northern State (11-21, 9-18 NSIC) on Monday at Barnes Field. 

Concordia has now won seven of its last eight games and five in a row and will look for that momentum to continue on a road trip to #23 Augustana (28-12, 21-6 NSIC) on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The nationally-ranked Vikings will be looking to get right after being swept at #25 Minnesota State by a total of six runs in the three-game series.

Concordia's hot streak has placed them in a tie for eighth in the NSIC Standings with Wayne State. CSP is three games behind fourth-place Sioux Falls (16-10), two games behind fifth-place Winona State (15-11), 1.5 games behind sixth-place Minnesota Crookston (15-12) and a game behind St. Cloud State (14-12).

The Golden Bears fell behind early as the Wolves came out aggressive looking to avoid the sweep, using a one-out Dillon Castellanos home run to take the game's first lead. 

The Wolves extended to 3-0 with a pair of runs in the second inning with Concordia coming up with a key play early in the game as Eric Berg delivered a strike to Charlie Harms for the relay to Chase McQuade to cut down a runner trying to score from second on a single for the second out. 

It was an all-or-nothing day for freshman Ryley Wuebkers, who flashed swing-and-miss stuff in his fourth career start. Weubkers struck out four and only walked one in his 2.1 innings of work while generating six swings and misses. 

After a first inning where NSU forced Wuebkers to throw 34 pitches to four batters with three full counts including seven two-strike foul balls, they pounced early in counts in the next two innings, putting the ball in play on the first pitch five times to force him from the game. He didn't factor into the decision, allowing six runs but only four earned.

Meanwhile, Concordia started to claw back as Berg made a statement with a leadoff homer to center in the second and the Golden Bears added two more in the third with Chase McQuade and Jack Setterlund reaching on a walk and a single to start the inning with Johnson scoring McQuade on an RBI groundout. Charlie Harms added a two-out RBI double to make it a 6-3 game. 

The Wolves pushed their lead back to five runs in the fifth, getting the first two batters on with tough infield singles and loading the bases with no outs with a walk.

Jack Thompson, who relieved Wuebkers in the third inning, minimized the damage, trading a run for an out on a sacrifice fly, and after the second run scored on a wild pitch, Thompson induced a pair of flyouts to end the threat.

In the bottom of the fifth, Johnson was hit by pitch with one out and stole second, and after a strikeout, it appeared CSP would be satisfied with a big two-out RBI. Instead, Gus Berger fell behind 1-2, battling back to draw a seven-pitch walk, and Berg was hit by pitch on a full count to load the bases. 

Blake Eckmann delivered the big two-out hit, a two-run single to center, but the momentum was just starting as Hawken Hedlund followed with an RBI single through the right side.

A pinch hit walk to Nick Carlson re-loaded the bases and McQuade tacked on a game-tying two-run double to the left field corner, knocking out Northern State starting pitcher Hyun-Woo Kim.

With runners on second and third, Setterlund came up for the second time in the inning and converted a go-ahead two-run single up the middle, closing the book on Kim as he allowed 10 runs in 4.2 innings on six hits and five walks with four strikeouts.

Setterlund scored on Johnson's three-base error on the catcher on his tapper in front of the plate, with the NSU catcher soaring the throw down the right field line, and Johnson scored on Charlie Harms' walk with the fourth ball being a wild pitch. After Harms advanced on a wild pitch, Berger drove him in with his 13th double of the season for a 13-8 lead and a 10-run inning - all with two outs.

It took three Northern State pitchers to retire the Golden Bears in the fifth, and suddenly the home team lead by five runs after five innings.

Thompson turned the lead over to the rest of the CSP bullpen after working 2.2 innings, allowing two runs on three hits with a strikeout. He would secure his first win of the season in the contest.

Liam Bystol worked a scoreless sixth with a strikeout, and after allowing a walk and a hit by pitch to start the seventh, Cooper Mollet entered and induced a grounder to third with Hedlund stepping on third and firing a strike to Harms at first for the double play. Mollet picked up a strikeout to end the inning and shut down the rally.

Mollet worked around a two-out walk in the eighth and after allowing the first two to reach in the ninth, induced a foul out, fly out to center and a three-pitch strikeout on three swings and misses to end the game for his first save.

Setterlund once again paced CSP's lineup from the ninth spot, going 2-4 with two runs and two RBIs. McQuade, batting in front of Setterlund, went 1-3 with a walk, his fifth double, a pair of runs and pair of RBIs.

Berger (2-4) and Hedlund (2-5) also had two-hit performances while Berg and Johnson each scored twice. Harms went 1-4, walked, scored and drove in a run while slugging his 14th double.