MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – On a cool, wet afternoon, the Carleton College baseball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader at Augsburg University, falling by scores of 3-0 and 3-1. The Knights offense was kept in check most of the day, totaling only three hits in each contest.
 
GAME 1 RECAP
Rookie Kiefer Lord (Fy./Atherton, Calif./Menlo School) went the distance for the second time this season but received no run support. He allowed five hits and struck out a game-high five batters with only one walk.
 
Meanwhile, Augsburg senior Matthew Nicklay scattered three hits and two walks for his first career shutout.
 
The hosts plated two runs in the second inning after collecting three of their five hits in that frame. The other tally came in the fifth inning when Augsburg cashed in a leadoff triple.
 
Travis Brown (Sr./St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville), James Sassi (Jr./Stamford, and Jacob Small (Jr./Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) had the hits for Carleton.
 
GAME 2 RECAP
Brown smashed his previous career high with a 6.0-inning effort. He yielded three runs (two earned) on six hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
 
Augsburg plated an unearned run in the third inning and add a pair of two-out tallies in the sixth inning. Carleton pushed its run across in the when Vince Cone (Jr./New York, N.Y./Trinity School NYC) reached on an error, advanced on Cayten Gardner's (Jr./Claremont, Calif./Claremont) single and scored on Steve Antrim's (Fy./Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) groundout.
 
Luke Mager (So./Berkeley, Calif./Berkeley) had two of the Knights' three hits.
 
UP NEXT FOR THE KNIGHTS
Carleton opens a three-game weekend series against Saint John's University with a road doubleheader at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 24. The same two teams are slated for a 9-inning game in Northfield on Sunday afternoon.