Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score

DULUTH, Minn. – Saint John's baseball completed the MIAC regular-season schedule with a doubleheader split at St. Scholastica on Saturday, May 3, at Wade Stadium.

SJU (24-14, 14-6 MIAC) was out-hit 14-4 and committed three errors in a 14-0 loss in the opener, but scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to take game two, 6-5.

Both teams left 16 men on base across the two games as the Johnnies batted .231 (3-for-13) with runners in scoring position.

Game 1 – at St. Scholastica 14, Saint John's 0
St. Scholastica (22-18, 9-11 MIAC) scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning and broke the game open with six more in the fourth, four in the fifth and two in the sixth.

The Saints were 6-for-12 with runners in scoring position to SJU's 0-for-5 performance in the opener.

Sophomore Carter Theisen (Rosemount, Minn.) took the loss, allowing seven runs (six earned) on nine hits in 3.1 innings. 

Sophomore center fielder Riley Schwellenbach (Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge) recorded two of his team's four hits.

Game 2 – Saint John's 6, at St. Scholastica 5
Down to its final strike and trailing 4-3, SJU plated two runs on a Texas-league single off the bat of sophomore second baseman Alex Matchey (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area) and made it 6-4 on an RBI single from junior right fielder Brendan Hemr (Blaine, Minn./Centennial).

Junior left fielder Owen Amrhein (Waconia, Minn.) started the ninth inning with a single and junior shortstop Reed Marquardt (Lindstrom, Minn./Chisago Lakes) singled with one out. Senior third baseman Joe Becker (New Prague, Minn.) lined out to the shortstop for the second out before senior first baseman Owen Best (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit) roped an RBI single – his third hit of the game – up the middle to cut the deficit to one, 4-3. Matchey lifted a fly ball to no-man's land in shallow left-center field and the Saints' left fielder dove but could not come up with the catch to plate both Marquardt and freshman pinch runner Hudson Poole (Excelsior, Minn./Minnetonka). Matchey advanced to second on the throw home, which skipped to the backstop to grant him another base. Hemr then followed with a hard single through the left side for a 6-4 lead.

CSS made it 6-5 on an RBI groundout off freshman Drew Lange (Albany, Minn./Holdingford) but stranded the tying run on second base.

The Saints gained a 2-0 lead with a pair of runs in the third inning.

Becker cut the Johnnies' deficit to one (2-1) with his record-breaking 14th home run of the season with one out in the top of the fifth inning. The homer, the 35th of his collegiate career, broke his tie with former teammate Ethan Roe '22 for the single-season program record. Becker also became SJU's all-time leader in walks with his 83rd in game one and was intentionally walked in the nightcap.

CSS made it 3-1 in the sixth inning, but Hemr smacked his fifth homer of the season in the top of the eighth. The home team scored an insurance run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth before the Johnnies' comeback.

Senior Kade Bowar (Burnsville, Minn.) gave up one run on two hits in two innings of relief for the win and Lange picked up his second save of the season.

Sophomore Hunter Hoen (Belle Plaine, Minn.) made the start and gave up three runs (two earned) on five hits in six innings.

Best led the way at the plate with a 3-for-5 performance, while Amrhein, Hemr, Marquardt and Matchey added two hits apiece.

SJU returns home to host Crown for the regular-season finale at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, at Haugen Field at Becker Park.