DUNDAS, Minn. – Senior Ryan Antrim collected a career-best 10 strikeouts over his best outing while donning the maize and blue, but the Carleton College baseball team could not take advantage and dropped both games to Saint Mary's University, falling by scores of 22-2 and 9-3
 
The doubleheader had been postponed twice and had the projected location shifted twice due to field conditions at both the Knights' (4-11, 2-2 MIAC) and Cardinals' (11-7, 4-0 MIAC) home facilities. Eventually the games were moved to Memorial Park, four miles from the Carleton campus.
 
Game 1 Recap
The Knights were plagued by fielding troubles in the contest, collecting seven errors, including six over the first four frames of the game.
 
Saint Mary's scored at least once in all seven innings, including a 4-run first, a 5-run fourth, and an 8-run sixth.
 
The Knights scored both their runs in the bottom of the fourth, following consecutive this from Ananth Iyer, Ryan Chang, and Sam Gossard.
 
The Cardinals stole 11 bases, the highest single-game total in recorded SMU history, including four from Cameron Weber and three from Mason Coyle. The visitors also belted a trio of home runs, two of them by catcher Stephen Golden.
 
Will Schnepf struck out two in his three-inning start for the Knights, and was charged with six runs (three earned) on five hits and two walks.
 
Cardinals' Dylan Westcott struck out four Knights' batters and picked up the win in his five innings of work, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits and no walks.

Game 2 Recap
Carleton jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the opening frame. Sam Zacks led off with a single, stole second base, and eventually scored on a RBI groundout by Schnepf. Gossard singled and scored from first on John Hurtubise's deep double to center field.
 
Meanwhile, Ryan Antrim was dealing early on the bump, striking out three of the first seven batters he faced. He added two more punchouts in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.
 
The Cardinals finally solved Ryan Antrim for a run in the sixth. His twin brother Steve Antrim got that run back with a run-scoring groundball in the bottom of the stanza.
 
With Ryan Antrim lifted from the game, the Cardinals scored eight times against the Carleton bullpen, pushing across four runs in the seventh, another in the eight, and tacking on three insurance tallies in the ninth.

Ryan Antrim's previous career high was 3 strikeouts. His 10-strikeout performance is tied for the third-highest by MIAC pitcher this season and is the most by a Knight since 2023 MLB draft pick Kiefer Lord collected 12 strikeouts over 6.0 innings at Augsburg on May 3, 2022. Antrim surrendered only a lone run on six hits with a walk over his solid 5.1 innings on the mound.
 
Cardinals' Maddox Cejka tossed 6.0 innings of three-run ball for the win, and Andrew Fischer picked up the save with 2.0 scoreless frames of relief work.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton travels to Bethel University for a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader at Hargis Park on Saturday, April 6.