Box Score
DULUTH, Minn. – Saint John's baseball cracked 23 hits, including eight doubles, in a 24-4 non-conference win over St. Scholastica on Sunday, April 29, in Duluth.
SJU (24-5, 9-3 MIAC) erased a 2-0 deficit with five runs in the top of the second inning and, after CSS (17-7, 11-1 UMAC) cut into the Johnnies' lead with a single run in the third, scored 19 consecutive runs until the bottom of the ninth. The visitors scored six runs in the fifth inning and eight in the ninth. The Saints' lead was their first against SJU since 2004, a span of 27 innings.
Sophomore right-fielder
Wyatt Ulrich (Indus, Minn./International Falls) became the 29th Johnnie in school history to reach 100 career hits with a two-run double, his second of the game, in the ninth inning. He ended the afternoon 3-for-6 with the two doubles, four runs scored and a career-high five RBI.
Senior catcher
Dominick Schleper (Shakopee, Minn.) went 5-for-5, SJU's first five-hit game since Aaron Pfaff '15 in 2015 (March 5 vs. Bluffton in Ft. Myers, Fla.), with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored.
Senior second baseman
Brennan Swan (Plymouth, Minn./Totino-Grace) and junior centerfielder
Max Jackson (St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) each went 3-for-6 with two RBI.
Every SJU starter in the lineup drove in at least one run in the game, yet the visitors still managed to leave 14 men on base. The Saints issued 17 free passes (15 walks, two hit batsmen) in the game.
SJU used seven different pitches in the win and awarded sophomore
Taylor Fourre (Albany, Minn.) with the win. He allowed two hits in two scoreless innings (the fifth and sixth).
The game was SJU's second with 20 runs scored or more this season (21-0 on March 5 vs. Finlandia, Mich.) and the 24 runs were the most for the Johnnies since they scored 24 in the 24-8 win over Dickinson (Pa.) on March 7, 2009, in Chandler, Ariz.
The Johnnies return to conference play with back-to-back road doubleheaders at Saint Mary's (15-12, 9-3 MIAC) and Carleton (7-16, 0-12 MIAC) on Tuesday (1 p.m.) and Wednesday (2:30 p.m.), May 1-2. Tuesday's doubleheader in Winona was moved up to 1 p.m. due to the weather forecast for later in the day.
