Notables
-Grant Rindal (Superior, Wis./Superior HS ) picked up his second career win, throwing a five scoreless innings.
-CSS had four doubles and a triple in the contest.
-The Saints offense totaled 15 hits in the game and scored eight runs in the fourth inning.
-Tyler Duex (Bloomer, Wis./Chippewa Falls HS (UW-Superior) ) went 2-3 with three RBIs and Jordan Risse (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington HS ) was 3-5 with three RBIs.
COON RAPIDS, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica baseball team defeated the Rams of North Central 15-0 on the back of sophomore Grant Rindal's two-hit shutout in a Friday afternoon UMAC contest at Winter Crest Park.
CSS got the scoring started early with four first inning runs to take a 4-0 lead. Trevor Bernsdorf (Meadowlands, Minn./Floodwood HS (Doane) ) singled to right, scoring Steven Neutzling (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Cathedral ), who doubled in his first at-bat. Following a Chris Olson (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS ) walk, Jordan Risse (Sioux Falls, S.D./Washington HS ) knocked in both Bernsdorf and Neutzling on a double to center. Risse would score the final run of the inning on a Michael Grove (Edina, Minn./Edina HS ) single, giving Grant Rindal (Superior, Wis./Superior HS ) a healthy 4-0 cushion early in the contest. The Saints would tack on an additional run in the top of the second to push the score to 5-0, while Rindal was mowing through the Ram lineup, facing just 10 batters in the first three innings of work.
With a 5-0 lead already, CSS exploded for eight runs in the top of the fourth. After a pair of hit batsmen, Austin Colvard (Little Canada, Minn./Roseville HS) walked to load the bases. Tyler Duex (Bloomer, Wis./Chippewa Falls HS (UW-Superior) ) was inserted into the lineup for Neutzling, and promptly cleared the bases with a double to push the score to 8-0 in favor of the Saints. An Olson single up the middle would bring Duex home, and Olson would advance to second after a Risse single. Olson scored on a Grove single to right, and a Ryan Burmeister (Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS (Augustana, S.D.) ) single would bring Risse home. A Jesse Heaton (Heyworth, Ill./Bloomington Central Catholic HS ) double to left would bring both Burmeister and Grove home to cap off the scoring and give CSS a comfortable 13-0 lead.
CSS would also add a pair of runs in the fifth as Bernsdorf hit a triple and scored on a Risse single. Risse would later score an unearned run to push the score to the final of 15-0.
Grant Rindal picked up his first win of the season and his first career shutout. Rindal threw five scoreless innings, allowing just two hits and one walk while striking out six in the CSS victory. For the Rams, Cody Vansickle takes the loss, allowing 12 hits and 13 earned runs in just four innings.
CSS (7-3) will look for the sweep in a doubleheader tomorrow against North Central University, with the first game beginning at noon.
