Box Score Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

ASHLAND, Wis. – The ninth-ranked St. Scholastica baseball team now has its longest winning streak of the season with a doubleheader sweep of Northland College today, winning game one 21-10 and game two 13-0.

The Saints have an overall record of 16-2 and are 5-0 in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference. The LumberJacks fall to 2-11 overall and 0-5 in conference play. The Saints are 26-0-1 all-time against Northland. CSS has scored 73 runs in their last five games.

St. Scholastica jumped out to a 15-0 lead in the first three innings of game one and had a 21-1 lead  before the Jacks scored two in the sixth and seven in the seventh to cut the CSS victory margin to 21-10. #Paul Kolodge# (Jr.-Cloquet, Minn.) and #Kyle Wojtysiak# (Sr.-Proctor, Minn.) both went 3-for-4. Kolodge had four RBIs, while Wojtysiak drove in three runs. #Sean Claugherty# (Jr.-Oakdale, Minn./Tartan) went 2-for-4 with four runs scored and had two RBIs. #Joe Link# (So.-Woodbury, Minn.) added five RBIs. #Steve Gerten# (Jr.-West St. Paul, Minn./Henry Sibley) earned the win on the mound, allowing only a run in three innings.

Game two would be a little tighter with the score being 4-0 going into the seventh inning, until the Saints scored nine in the top of the seventh to win 13-0. #Matt Mikel# (So.-Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley), #Matt Lewis# (So.-Erie, Pa./Cathedral Prep), and #Garrett Groebner# (Sr.-Poplar, Wis./Northwestern) combined for the shutout. Mikel earned his first collegiate victory, going four innings and striking out four.

Paul Kolodge (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet Senior HS) also had a good second game at the plate, going 2-for-3 with four RBIs and two runs scored. Steve Gerten (West St. Paul, Minn./Henry Sibley HS) went 3-for-5 with two RBIs.

The Saints will be in action on Thursday when they play a rescheduled doubleheader at Bethany Lutheran, starting at 1 p.m. That doubleheader can be heard on ESPN Radio 560.