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Aaron Rice
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Carleton CARLETON 7-12
7
Winner Macalester MAC 7-17
Carleton CARLETON
7-12
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Final
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Macalester MAC
7-17
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Carleton CARLETON 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 2
Macalester MAC 0 1 1 2 0 3 X 7 6 1

W: C. Scholl (4-3) L: Chutkow, Sam (1-4)

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Winner Carleton CARLETON 7-13
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Macalester MAC 7-18
Winner
Carleton CARLETON
7-13
14
Final
13
Macalester MAC
7-18
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Carleton CARLETON 0 2 1 3 5 0 2 0 1 14 18 1
Macalester MAC 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 3 3 13 21 2

W: Fernandez, Mark (1-2) L: I. Flood (0-1) S: Chang, Ryan (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Knights' bats awaken in nightcap of split with Macalester

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Carleton College baseball team split its twin bill at Macalester College on Tuesday. The Knights lost the opener 7-1, but their bats found a rhythm in the nightcap which became a 14-13 slugfest victory.
 
Game One – Macalester 7, Carleton 1
Macalester (7-18, 2-10 MIAC) scored runs in the second and second without the benefit of a hit, bringing a runner that reached on catcher's interference around in the second, and scoring a leadoff walk in the third.
 
The Knights' (8-12, 2-8 MIAC) Aaron Rice posted the first hit of the game in the fourth inning, a ringing double to left-center, and scored on two productive groundouts. An RBI squeeze bunt and run-scoring double gave the Scots a 4-1 advantage in the bottom of the frame.
 
Three more runners came around for the home team in the sixth inning, and Carleton's final seven batters went down in order, as Macalester righty Cam Scholl tossed a complete game three-hitter.
 
Sam Chutkow started for Carleton and threw 4.0 innings, allowing two hits, but conceding three earned runs thanks to five walks. Jake Stern stranded an inherited runner and struck out a batter in 0.2 innings out of the 'pen, his third consecutive scoreless appearance. Brandon Damelin was 1-for-2 with a double, extending a five-game on-base streak.
 
Game Two – Carleton 14, Macalester 13
After a quiet game one, the squads would combine for 27 runs and 39 hits in the second contest. The Knights' 14 runs and 18 hits represented season bests and tied the squad's best totals since the 2021 campaign.
 
Macalester pushed a run across in the first, but Nathan Barnhart knocked in a pair of runs in the top of the second inning to give Carleton a lead. Chutkow slashed a single through the left side in the third to make it 3-1.
 
The Scots knotted the affair at 3-3 with a pair of two-baggers in the bottom of the third, but the visitors responded with a trio of tallies in the next half-inning. Barnhart and Sam Zacks reached on free passes, and Barnhart scored when Sam Gossard struck out, but hustled to first on a wild pitch. Gossard would come around on a Will Schnepf single, and Ryan Chang doubled to make the advantage 6-3.
 
Macalester scraped one back in the bottom of the frame, but Carleton racked up a crooked number with five more tallies in the top of the fifth, using singles by Barnhart, Andrew Sellers, and Zacks, as well as a set of Mac miscues to build an 11-4 lead. Sellers scored his run when Zacks got himself in a pickle between first and second but stayed alive long enough for the junior to dash home from third.
 
The Scots began working their way back with two runs in the fifth, but Carleton re-extended its lead to seven in the seventh. Gossard singled and stole both second and third before coming home on Schnepf's second hit of the contest. Two batters later, Schnepf raced across the plate when Jack Hommeyer dragged a single to left.
 
The Scots' Stephen Paulsen hit a solo round-tripper to cut the lead to 13-7 in the seventh inning, and the hosts plated three more in the eighth, making it 13-10.
 
Hommeyer pushed Chang home in the top of the ninth, an insurance run that would prove crucial. Macalester got a three-run shot from Nico Alexander in the bottom of the ninth, and Chang moved from third to the mound to close the game. After a groundout, he walked the bases loaded but induced a flyout to Gossard to end the contest.
 
Each member of the Carleton lineup collected at least one hit, and seven of them posted multi-hit games. Chutkow and Sellers both had three hits in the box score, while Barnhart, Chang, Gossard, Hommeyer, and Schnepf each collected two hits.
 
Carleton swiped 10 bases in the contest, its highest single-game total over the last 20 years (see chart below). Gossard and Zacks were the busiest on the basepaths, as both finished with four stolen bases to match the highest individual total over the last 20 years (see chart below).
 
Starter Ananth Iyer went 4.0 innings and allowed four runs. Mark Fernandez was credited with the victory after 3.0 frames of work out of the pen, and Chang's save was the second of his career.
 
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton meets with Saint Mary's University at Max Molock Field for two contests on Saturday, April 19. First pitch of the opening game is at 1:00 p.m.
 
Most Stolen Bases in a Game (Team) since 2005
10 – at Macalester College (4/15/2025 – game 2)
9 - vs Northland College (4/20/2014)
8 – at Hamline University (5/1/2023 – game 2)
7 - at Lawrence University (5/3/2015 – game 2)
6 - vs Swarthmore College (3/16/2007 – game 2)
6 - vs Western Connecticut State (3/18/2007)
6 - vs St. Olaf (4/19/2022 – game 2)
6 – at Saint Mary's University (5/8/2023 – game 2)
6 – vs. Bates College (3/21/2024)
6 – vs. UW-Superior (3/2/2025)
6 – vs. Purchase State University (3/22/2025)

Most Stolen Bases in a Game (Individual) since 2005
4 - Jack Atterberry vs. Northland College (4/20/2014)
4 - Asher Stolberg vs. St. Olaf College (4/19/2022 – game 2)
4 – Sam Zacks vs. St. Olaf College (5/2/2023 – game 2)
4 – Sam Zacks at Macalester College (4/15/2025 – game 2)
4 – Sam Gossard at Macalester College (4/15/2025 – game 2)
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