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Box Score 2 COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's swept Hamline with a pair of one-run games, 3-2 and 10-9, on Senior Day Sunday, April 26, in Collegeville.
The Johnnies (19-6, 11-5 MIAC) chipped away with singles runs in each of the first three innings in game one's 3-2 win, while senior outfielder
Joe Lampe (Osceola, Iowa/Clarke) cleared the bases with a triple, his fourth of the day, as the home team posted a four-run eighth inning in game two's comeback victory. Lampe went 4-for-7 with three runs scored and three RBI in the doubleheader. The four triples gives Lampe six for the year, which ties an SJU season record with Jim Meyer (1986) and Greg Thoma (1994).
Sophomore
Joe Stanton (Stillwater, Minn.) limited the Pipers (13-14, 6-10 MIAC) to the two runs on five hits in six innings and improved to 4-1 on the year. Senior
Justin Thompson (Chanhassen, Minn./Chaska) pitched a 1-2-3 seventh for his eighth save of the season.
HU jumped on junior
Collin Felhaber (North St. Paul, Minn.) for four runs on four hits, with three hit batsmen on 1-2 counts, to gain an early 4-0 lead in game two. SJU tied the game at 4-4 with three runs in the bottom of the fourth, but Hamline answered with three in the sixth. The Johnnies were able to tally two runs in the bottom half of the sixth but found themselves down 9-6 entering their half of the eighth thanks to single runs allowed in the seventh and eighth.
Typically a starting pitcher, sophomore
Patrick Strey (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) made his second relief appearance of the season and earned the win to improve to 4-1 on the year, allowing two runs (one earned) in two innings of work. Thompson pitched a scoreless ninth to pick up his ninth save of the year and is now one away from
Joey Long's '13 season-record of 10 set in 2012.
Felhaber allowed seven runs, five earned, on 10 hits in six innings of the no-decision. He struck out eight and walked one.
Senior outfielder
Dylan Graves (Mora, Minn.), and junior outfielders
Tom Druk (Plymouth, Minn./Orono) and
Aaron Pfaff (New Ulm, Minn./Cathedral) each had three hits on the day for SJU, which improved to 30-14 against HU since 1993 (16-4 in Collegeville).
SJU plays host to nationally-ranked and league-leading St. Thomas for a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader on Tuesday, April 29, at Saint John's Field.