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BOX SCORE 2 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Augustana swept the doubleheader against Winona State in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome on Friday night with 11-7 and 4-3 wins. The Vikings improve to 6-5 on the season while the Warriors drop their first two game of the 2013 season, falling to 0-2. The games did not count towards the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Standings
Game One
Augustana scored a run in the bottom of the first and never faced a deficit throughout the game despite several Winona State comeback attempts.
Jacob Petersen opened the Vikings' half of the first inning with a single and proceeded to steal second and third.
Tony Viger capped the inning off with a sacrifice fly to drive Petersen in.
In the bottom of the third, Petersen found his way on the base paths by getting hit by a pitch and advanced on a wild pitch.
David Borchardt drove Petersen in with a frozen rope to right center.
Kye Winter then pushed Borchardt, who advanced to third on a groundout, with a single. The Vikings led 3-1 after three innings, giving
Jordan Milbrath a nice cushion on the mound.
Augustana then exploded in the bottom of the fourth inning with six runs aided by a pair of WSU errors.
Ben Ludwigson drove in
Nate Hewes and
Brian Duxbury to score the first two runs of the inning. Ludwigson then scored on a sacrifice by Petersen. The bases were loaded after Viger reached on an error and
Jason Rasmussen scored on a wild pitch before Brendan Koistenen drove in two more runs on an error by the Winona State shortstop. The Vikings led 9-1 after the fourth inning.
Winona State answered in the top of the fifth with three runs, but the Vikings still held a comfortable lead. Augustana finished their scoring in their half of the fifth with two runs.
The Vikings loaded the bases on three walks and Viger knocked in Ludwigson on a sacrifice fly. Borchardt stole second in a first-and-third situation which gave Petersen the opportunity to score frlom third and Augustana led 11-4 after five innings of play.
The Warriors responded with three runs on four hits forcing Borchardt to relieve Milbrath on the mound. Milbrath finished the day giving up seven runs, six earned, on nine hits in five and two thirds innings of work.
With an 11-7 lead, Borchardt closed out the game in the top of the seventh by sitting down all three Warrior batters in order.
Petersen scored three runs, while Viger and
Nate Hewes each drove in a pair of runs.
Game Two
Ben Heairet pitched six and a third innings, giving up three runs on just three hits while striking out eight batters to earn his first win of the year.
Once again, the Vikings struck first led by Petersen's single and ending with Viger driving him in with a single to left field. Augustana pushed another run across the plate in the second to give the Vikings a 2-0 lead. Ludwigson walked and Rasmussen was hit by a pitch and both advanced on a Petersen sacrifice bunt. Borchardt drove in Ludwigson on a sacrifice line drive to right field.
Heariet shut out the Warriors in the first three innings, but Winona State broke out of their slump to push three runs across led by a Ben Weeks homerun to left center.
The Vikings were down 3-2 entering the fifth but tied the game up when
Marcus O'Neill singled to left and drove in Hewes who reached on a two-out error by the WSU first baseman.
Heairet blanked the Wariors in the fifth and sixth to keep the game ties 3-3. Hewes reached first after being hit by a pitch and advanced to third on a double by Ludwigson with two outs. Rasmussen proved to be the hero of the game as the clock slowly approached 1 a.m. The second baseman singled through the left side to plate the go-ahead run.
Heaiet fanned the leadoff hitter before being replaced by late-game specialist
Derek Quame. Quame walked the first batter, but forced Winona State's leadoff hitter, Derek Wojcik into a game-ending 4-3 double play.
Quame earned his fourth save of the year with the 4-3 victory.
The Vikings will continue play in the Twin Cities, facing Concordia-St. Paul at the Metrodome on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 3:15 p.m.
