Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's baseball ended the regular season with a pair of losses to Concordia-Moorhead, 11-1 and 11-9, on Saturday, May 7, in Collegeville.

Following game one, SJU dedicated Lynch Plaza (Pat Lynch '88) and renamed Saint John's Field to Becker Park, in honor of the new stadium's benefactors, Scott '77 and Julie Becker.

The Johnnies (25-12, 13-7 MIAC) will be the No. 2 or No. 3 seed in next week's four-team, double-elimination MIAC Tournament. SJU will play either Hamline or Saint Mary's at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Cold Spring Ballpark. SMU wraps up its regular-season schedule with a home doubleheader Sunday, May 8, against Bethel.

The Cobbers (21-17, 11-9 MIAC) entered the day batting .284 on the season, but batted at a .394 clip (28-for-71) with five home runs, including three three-run shots, on the afternoon. CC batted .577 (15-for-26) with runners in scoring position and recorded 10 RBI with two outs, all in game two.

Junior third baseman Derek Schiebel (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) tripled in the first inning of game one and scored on an RBI single from senior first baseman/pitcher Patrick Strey (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) to give SJU a 1-0 lead. The Cobbers, however, responded with 11 unanswered runs.

Schiebel set a new single-season school record with his seventh triple of the season with another three-bagger in the sixth inning of game two.

Strey set down the first seven batters he faced to start the game, but he allowed a single run in the third inning and three-run homers in both the fourth and fifth. He was charged with eight runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings for the loss (4-4 record).

A leadoff double from freshman second baseman Cole Weaver (Carlsbad, Calif./Santa Fe Christian) and an RBI groundout from senior shortstop Logan Hershey (Maple Grove, Minn.) gave SJU a 1-0 lead once again in the first inning of game two.

A three-run homer off the bat of senior outfielder Mike Stegora (Red Wing, Minn.) in the third inning and a three-run shot from Weaver, the first of his collegiate career, gave the Johnnies an 8-6 lead after four innings.

Hershey drove in Schiebel following his record-breaking triple in the sixth to make it 9-6, but Concordia tied the game at 9-9 with a two-out, three-run homer in the seventh. The Cobbers tallied the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and added another, unearned, in the ninth.

Sophomore Nick Noack (Thousand Oaks, Calif./Westlake) was charged with the loss, his first of the season (6-1 record), allowing the two runs (one earned) on four hits in two innings of relief. 

SJU's game-two starter, junior Alex Kendall (St. Cloud, Minn./Saint John's Prep), allowed six runs on nine hits in six innings in the no-decision.

Stegora went 3-for-5 at the plate with a double, home run and four RBI in game two. Freshman outfielder Max Jackson (St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) collected three hits in six trips on the day, while Strey posted four singles.