ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Steve Antrim (Jr./Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) had a team-best three hits on the day, but the Carleton College baseball team dropped both ends of its doubleheader at Macalester College, falling 22-2 and 13-3 (7 inn.)
 
Game 1 Recap
Macalester (11-9, 3-3 MIAC) pushed a run across in each of the seven innings, starting the day with a six-run bottom of the first inning. After Carleton (4-11, 0-4 MIAC) scored twice in the top of the second frame, the Scots responded with a run in the bottom of the stanza and put the game out of reach by scoring eight more times in the third inning.
 
Aaron Rice (So./Evergreen, Colo./Colorado Academy) laid down a squeeze bunt to score Sam Zacks (So./Glencoe, Ill./New Trier) with the first Carleton run. Kai Oishi (Jr./New York, N.Y./Trevor Day School) followed with an RBI double to left field.
 
Macalester hit four home runs in the game and took advantage of 11 walks issued by the Carleton pitching staff.
 
Game 2 Recap
Things started off better for the Knights in the second game as the visitors jumped out to a 2-0 lead thanks to Steve Antrim's RBI double Sam Gossard (Fy./Wilmette, Ill./New Trier) RBI singled in the top of the first inning. Unfortunately, the Scots answered immediately with two runs in the bottom of the frame before roughing up the Carleton pitching staff for five more tallies in the second inning and a four-spot in the third inning.
 
Zacks' RBI single in the fourth inning accounted for the other Carleton run.
 
Braden Sebesta (Sr./Spring, Texas/John Cooper School) provided a bright spot for the Knights' pitching staff, tossing 1.2 innings of scoreless, one-hit relief with two strikeouts in game two.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton will hold its home opener when Concordia College-Moorhead visits Mel Taube Field on Friday, April 14. First pitch is slated for 1:00 p.m. The doubleheader was moved up 24 hours to avoid rain that is forecast to hit the Northfield area on Saturday.