Joe Stanton (Lehigh Photo)
Junior pitcher Joe Stanton (courtesy of Lehigh Photo)
2
St. Scholastica CSS 23-9
6
Winner Saint John's Univ. SJU 17-12
St. Scholastica CSS
23-9
2
Final
6
Saint John's Univ. SJU
17-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Scholastica CSS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 10 0
Saint John's Univ. SJU 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 X 6 10 2

W: Stanton, Joe (1-2) L: Jordan Risse (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Stanton, Johnnies Slow Down St. Scholastica, 6-2


Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's jumped out to a 5-0 lead and ran its winning streak to four games with a 6-2 non-conference victory over St. Scholastica on Sunday, April 19, in Collegeville.

Junior shortstop Logan Hershey (Maple Grove, Minn.) went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI, while sophomore third baseman Derek Schiebel (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) tallied a 3-for-3 performance with his team-leading 13th double and two runs scored. Hershey is batting .404 and leads the MIAC with 44 hits this season.

SJU (17-12, 7-5 MIAC) jumped on St. Scholastica with three runs in the first inning. Senior centerfielder Aaron Pfaff (New Ulm, Minn./Cathedral) led off with a double and advanced to third on a single from Schiebel. Hershey doubled off the centerfield fence to tally the first run and junior catcher Gabe MacDonald (Minneapolis, Minn./Benilde-St. Margaret's) brought in Schiebel with a sacrifice fly. Senior leftfielder Tom Druk (Plymouth, Minn./Orono) made plated Hershey with a one-out, RBI single.

Hershey gave the Johnnies a 5-0 lead with a two-run single in the fifth inning.

A pair of fielding errors with two outs in the top of the sixth inning put CSS (23-9, 14-1 UMAC) on the board, but junior rightfielder Mike Stegora (Red Wing, Minn.) answered with a solo blast to right field, his third of the season, in the bottom half of the inning.

The Saints' Padraic Getchell slapped a tailing two-out triple, just out of the reach of a diving Stegora, to right field and scored on a single from Austin Colvard in the seventh inning.

Junior Joe Stanton (Stillwater, Minn.) earned the win, his third start of the season and first since March 19 in Tucson, allowing the two runs (one earned) in seven innings. He surrendered eight hits, seven singles, and struck out four. The Saints entered the game averaging 8.8 runs per contest and batting .329 in 31 games this season.

Sophomore Alex Kendall (St. Cloud, Minn./Saint John's Prep) pitched two innings of scoreless relief. 

MacDonald extended his hitting streak to a team-best 15 games with an eighth-inning single.

SJU batted 4-for-8 with runners in scoring position, while CSS was just 1-for-7 and 1-for-16 with runners on base.

The Johnnies return to MIAC play with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader against Macalester (7-17, 0-12 MIAC) on Tuesday, April 21, at Saint John's Field.



 
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