Zach Selchow_Capri Potter
Sophomore third baseman Zach Selchow, shown here from March 28, totaled three hits in the loss (image courtesy of Capri Potter).
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Saint John's Univ. SJU 10-2, 0-1 MIAC
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Winner Gustavus Adolphus GAC 7-1, 2-1 MIAC
Saint John's Univ. SJU
10-2, 0-1 MIAC
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Final
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Gustavus Adolphus GAC
7-1, 2-1 MIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Saint John's Univ. SJU 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
Gustavus Adolphus GAC 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 1 X 8 12 2

W: Weston Lombard (2-0) L: Trapp, Casey (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

SJU Falls in Windy, MIAC Opener at Gustavus


Box Score

ST. PETER, Minn. - No. 22 Saint John's baseball opened its conference schedule with an 8-3 loss at Gustavus Adolphus on Good Friday, April 2, in St. Peter.

Dealt with a steady wind to left/left-center at over 20 MPH and favorable dimensions (315 feet down the left-field line), Gustavus (7-1, 2-1 MIAC) matched its season total with four home runs, all to left field.

Unfortunately for SJU (10-2, 0-1 MIAC), the Johnnies hit two balls to left field in the nine innings of play.

Junior first baseman Nathan Brandecker (South St. Paul, Minn.) gave the Johnnies a quick 3-0 lead with a no-doubt, three-run homer with two outs in the top of the first inning. Freshman outfielder Rodney Erickson (St. Paul, Minn./Woodbury) singled to start the game and moved to third on a double from sophomore second baseman Owen Dauk (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) in the next at-bat. The Gusties' Weston Lombard struck out the next two batters before Brandecker blasted his second home run of the season to left-center field.

GAC tied the game with three, two-out runs in the bottom of the second inning off sophomore southpaw Casey Trapp (Blaine, Minn./Centennial). Trapp was ahead 0-2 on GAC's No. 3 hitter, Cole Pengilly, but the count went full before Pengilly lifted a fly ball that the wind carried just out of Erickson's reach in left-centerfield for a two-run, game-tying triple. 

The Gusties gained a 5-3 lead on leadoff home runs from Nick Azar in the third and Jack Hanson in the fourth. Hanson's homer ended Trapp's day. Sophomore Alex Otto (Monticello, Minn.) came on in relief and set down the next four batters faced.

GAC's No. 9 hitter, Dalton Thelen, hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the fifth and Bryce Novak ended the game's scoring with a leadoff homer in the eighth.

SJU left the bases loaded in the top of the eighth inning and went 1-for-10 with two outs in the loss, to the Gusties' 7-for-15 showing.

Sophomore third baseman Zach Selchow (Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview) led SJU's bats with a 3-for-4 performance and Dauk went 2-for-4.

Trapp took the loss (0-2 record), allowing five runs on six hits. He struck out two and issued five free passes (four walks, one hit batsmen) in three innings.

Otto struck out five and allowed three runs on six hits in five innings of relief.

SJU returns home to finish the three-game series with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday, April 3, at Becker Park.


 
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