WINONA, Minn. – The Carleton College baseball team was swept on the road, coming up short by scores of 4-1 and 7-2 against Saint Mary's University.
Game One – Saint Mary's 4, Carleton 1
The first 14 combined batters were set down by
Will Schnepf and Connor Tulley, setting up a duel where both pitchers would go the distance.
Saint Mary's (18-13, 9-5 MIAC) broke the deadlock with three two-out runs in the bottom of the third inning, after
Sam Chutkow appeared to make a sliding catch in right, but the umpire ruled the ball had hit the turf. A bunt single and RBI knock to left in the fourth made it 4-0 in favor of the Cardinals.
Carleton (8-14, 2-10 MIAC) grabbed a run back when
Ananth Iyer punched a double down the line and crossed the plate with back-to-back productive groundouts. The final few frames breezed by without incident.
Once again, Schnepf put up a solid outing without much offensive help, throwing a 6.0-inning complete game, conceding four runs and striking out four.
Game Two – Saint Mary's 7, Carleton 2
Sam Zacks popped a leadoff home run – the first of his career – to put Carleton up 1-0, and
Aaron Rice came around to score after a leadoff hit in the fourth to double the visitors' lead.
Jack Curtis cruised until the bottom of the fourth, when Riley Bauman tied proceedings at two with a round-tripper to left field. Ryan Csida gave Saint Mary's the 3-2 lead in the next inning with a solo shot.
Carleton put four men on base in the eighth, but a pair of runners were caught stealing, leaving the Knights unable to erase the deficit. Curtis conceded four runs in the bottom of the frame, and Carleton stranded two more runners in the ninth, unable to mount a comeback.
Zacks finished 3-for-5 with his home run. Rice,
Ryan Chang, and
Nathan Barnhart had multi-hit days.
Curtis' started with seven innings of three-run ball, but a tough final frame concluded his day with 7.2 innings, seven runs allowed, and four punchouts.
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton continues its road swing with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader against Augsburg University on Wednesday, April 23. Those games will be played at Parade Stadium in Minneapolis.
