COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. -- Jacob Smith (Jr./McKinleyville, Calif./McKinleyville) belted his first career home run, but the Carleton College baseball team could not hold a late lead in game one against Saint John's and ended up falling by scores of 5-3 and 12-2 (8 inn.).
 
GAME 1 RECAP
The Johnnies (19-8, 9-7 MIAC) tallied an unearned run in the bottom of the first, but Carleton got that run back in the second inning via a throwing error.
 
Smith went deep with one out in the third inning, and Paul Hinton (Jr./Omaha, Neb./Millard West) doubled home Cayten Gardner (Jr./Claremont, Calif./Claremont) I the fourth inning.
 
The Knights (2-12, 0-12 MIAC) carried that 3-1 lead into the bottom of the sixth inning. A one out double chased home the frame's first run and was followed by a walk and three-run homer from Soren Roe that gave the hosts the come-from-behind victory.
 
Blake Anderson (Sr./Alexandria, Minn./Alexandria) absorbed the loss. He yielded three earned runs and fanned five over his 6.0 innings of work.
 
Five different Knights had the hits for Carleton.
 
GAME 2 RECAP
Feeding off the momentum from game one, Saint John's scored in each of the first four innings to build a 7-0 lead. After Carleton scored a pair in the top of the seventh, the Johnnies answered with one in the bottom of the inning and four more in the eighth.
 
Jacob Small (Jr./Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) went 3-for-3 with a walk, while Anderson was 2-for-4 with a two-run single in the seventh inning.
 
Ben Jeweler (So./Seattle, Wash./Garfield), one of five hurlers utilized by Carleton, was charged with the loss after giving up six runs over 2.2 innings.
 
UP NEXT FOR THE KNIGHTS
The Knights and Johnnies will wrap up their three-game series at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 26. The nine-inning contest was originally slated for Sunday afternoon but was postponed by cool, wet weather.