Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's baseball celebrated Jerry Haugen Day with a sweep of Augsburg, 2-0 and 13-3 in eight innings, on Saturday, April 26, at Haugen Field at Becker Park.

SJU (21-13, 11-5 MIAC) batted .391 (25-for-64) with seven extra-base hits (six doubles and a home run) on the day, while three Johnnie pitchers combined to hold the Auggies (12-21, 6-10 MIAC) to a .228 average (13-for-57). The visitors went 3-for-28 (.107) with runners on base and 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position in the doubleheader.

Junior shortstop Reed Marquardt (Lindstrom, Minn./Chisago Lakes) went 6-for-8 with five runs scored, a double and two RBI from the leadoff spot. 

Senior third baseman Joe Becker (New Prague, Minn.) went 5-for-8 with five RBI and three runs scored. He ended game two with a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to induce the 10-run rule. The long ball was his 12th of the season, matching his total from 2024 and is one from the program record set by former teammate Ethan Roe '22 in 2021, and the 33rd of his career.

Game 1 – at Saint John's 2, Augsburg 0
Sophomore Carter Theisen (Rosemount, Minn.) pitched the complete-game, seven-inning shutout for his fifth win of the season (5-2 record). He threw 76 pitches (48 strikes) and allowed four hits in a game that lasted 1:19. One of the hits allowed was a double that was lost in the sun.

The Johnnies loaded the bases with three free passes with one out in the bottom of the first inning. Becker was hit by the first pitch of his at-bat and senior first baseman Owen Best (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit) was plunked by his third before sophomore left fielder Alex Matchey (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area) walked. Junior right fielder Brendan Hemr (Blaine, Minn./Centennial) lifted a sacrifice fly in the ensuing at-bat to plate what proved to be the game-winning run.

Marquardt started the bottom of the third inning with a single and scored when Becker roped a double down the left-field line (but was thrown out at third attempting to stretch the hit into a triple).



Game 2 – at Saint John's 13, Augsburg 3 (8 inn.)
Augsburg jumped out to a 3-0 lead, thanks to two unearned runs, in the top of the first inning before SJU posted 13 unanswered runs.

Marquardt singled to start the bottom of the first, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on an RBI single off the bat of Becker. 

SJU added two unearned runs of its own in the second inning. Sophomore designated hitter Zach Helfmann (St. Louis Park, Minn.) reached on a fielding error and the Johnnies loaded the bases following bunt singles from senior second baseman Ryan Janzen (St. Cloud, Minn./Cathedral) and junior center fielder Owen Amrhein (Waconia, Minn.). A double play brought in a run and Marquardt tied the game at 3-3 with a double down the left-field line.

Best led off the bottom of the third with a ground-rule double to left and eventually scored on an infield single from Janzen.

The Johnnies broke open the lead with a four-run fourth inning, sparked by a bases-clearing double by Hemr, and tacked on an unearned run in the sixth. 

An RBI single from Matchey made it 10-3 in the seventh inning and Marquardt drove in another run in the eighth inning before Becker's blast.

Sophomore Hunter Hoen (Belle Plaine, Minn.) improved to 3-0 with the win after he allowed the three runs (one earned) on six hits in five innings.

Freshman Drew Lange (Albany, Minn./Holdingford) gave up three hits in three scoreless innings of relief for his first collegiate save.

Becker and Marquardt combined to go 8-for-11 with six runs scored and six RBI in game two. Amrhein, Janzen and Matchey collected three hits apiece.

The Johnnies play host to Concordia-Moorhead (18-17, 9-9 MIAC) for a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader on Monday, April 28, in Collegeville.