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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's baseball broke in the newly-dedicated Haugen Field with a doubleheader sweep of Augsburg, 5-4 and 16-6, on a beautiful Saturday, April 22, in Collegeville.

SJU formally dedicated Haugen Field, named in honor of head coach Jerry Haugen '76, prior to game one.

The Johnnies (21-8, 11-3 MIAC) jumped out to 3-0, first-inning leads in both games and batted .413 (26-for-63) on the day. SJU sent 12 men to the plate and scored eight runs in the seventh inning to enforce the 10-run rule in game two.



Five different Johnnies drove in a run and sophomore Jake Dickmeyer (Woodbury, Minn.) improved to 6-0 (4-0 MIAC) in game one's 5-4 win, SJU's sixth one-run victory of the season (6-4 record in one-run games). He struck out two and allowed the four runs on eight hits in six innings.

Junior Ben Etzell (Greenbank, Wash./Coupeville) tossed a scoreless seventh to earn his fourth save of the year and sixth of his career.

SJU gained a 4-0 lead after two innings in game two, but the Auggies (15-19, 3-11 MIAC) plated a run in the fourth and added four more in the fifth to gain a 5-4 lead. Augsburg started both innings with three straight singles.

The Johnnies followed Augsburg's pattern and started the bottom of the fifth inning with three straight singles of their own to tie the game at 5-5, thanks to an RBI single from sophomore designated hitter Thomas Meland (Northfield, Minn.). Freshman shortstop Michael Gruber (Glenwood, Minn./Minnewaska Area) brought in Meland with a sacrifice fly to give the lead back to SJU, 6-5.

Junior first baseman Jeron Terres (Cold Spring, Minn.) padded the Johnnies' lead with a two-run single in the sixth inning and broke the game wide open with a two-run triple in the seventh. Meland, who singled but was forced out at second base on a fielder's choice, was the only Johnnie that did not score in the seventh inning.

Gruber, Terres and freshman outfielder Wyatt Ulrich (Indus, Minn./International Falls) all had three hits in game two. Terres drove in four and scored three runs, while sophomore centerfielder Max Jackson (St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) crossed the plate four times. Ulrich went 4-for-9 at the plate in the doubleheader and extended his hit streak to 20 games.

Senior Alex Kendall (St. Cloud, Minn./Saint John's Prep) allowed five runs (four earned) on 11 hits in six innings to improve to 5-3 on the year.

The Johnnies make a brief return to non-conference play with a 1 p.m. nine-inning game against No. 22 St. Scholastica on Sunday, April 23, in Collegeville.