Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NORTHFIELD, Minn. – AJ Staff (Jr./Bainbridge Island, Wash./Bainbridge) tossed a complete game two-hitter and Jacob Small (Sr./Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) was 3-for-4 with two extra-base hits as the Carleton College baseball team defeated Hamline, 5-2, on Friday afternoon. The day's second game was suspended due to rain with the Knights leading 4-3 in the middle of the fifth inning, but Hamline would rally when play resumed three days later to claim a 12-4 victory.
 
Game 1 Recap
Hamline scored both its runs in the top of the third inning, thanks to back-to-back two-out run-scoring singles, the only hits the Pipers would get in the contest.
 
Carleton answered with a three-run rally in the bottom of the frame. Small's double to deep left field plated Steve Antrim (So./Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest), and an out later Paul Hinton (Sr./Omaha, Neb./Millard West) singled home both Asher Stolberg (Fy./Sherman Oaks, Calif./Campbell Hall) and Small.
 
The Knights tacked on two more runs in the fourth inning as Small's two-out triple chased home Jack Hommeyer (Fy./Bronxville, N.Y./Suffield Academy) and a throwing error led to the other run.
 
Staff kept the Pipers in check the rest of the way as he did not permit another runner past first base. All told he gave up only two singles and three walks while collecting a career-best seven strikeouts in tossing his second career complete game.
 
Game 2 Recap
Sam Schur (Sr./Calabasas, Calif./Viewpoint) doubled home Aaron Rice (Fy./Evergreen, Colo./Colorado Academy) in the bottom of the first inning. Small extended the lead to 2-0 when he beat out an infield single in the third inning, raced to third on the subsequent throwing error, and stole home as part of a double steal with Rice.
 
Small added a two-out, two-run single in the fourth inning, pushing the lead to 4-0.
 
Carleton righthander Ben Jeweler (Jr./Seattle, Wash./Garfield) escaped a bases-loaded jam in the opening inning, then shutdown Hamline until the visitors scored three times in the fifth inning.
 
The game was played in light rain that picked up in intensity during in the fifth inning and eventually play was halted before the Knights could come to bat. When the teams met again three days later to complete the contest, it was all Hamline.

Reliever Braden Schneider earned the victory, finishing with a 5.1 innings of 1-hit, scoreless ball with five strikeouts.
 
The Pipers scored twice in the sixth inning to inch ahead 5-4 then took advantage of two Carleton errors to tally five more unearned runs in the frame. Suddenly the visitors were in front 10-4. Hamline added two more runs in the ninth inning, and as Carleton dropped to 0-9 in the second game of doubleheaders this season (after going 7-2 in game ones).
 
Small had two of Carleton's six hits in the game.