Box Score

ST. PAUL -- After playing the two top teams from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) on Monday and Tuesday, the Northwestern College baseball team knows what to expect when preparing to face sixth-ranked College of St. Scholastica this weekend.  After losing a blowout to Hamline on Monday, the Eagles played better on Tuesday versus Macalester, but the Scots left Reynolds Field with a 10-4 victory.

Macalester wasted no time in putting runs on the board as two doubles in the first inning allowed the Scots to score first.  Northwestern answered with a run in the third when Andy Borud (Grand Marais, Minn./Cook County) (Grand Marais, Minn./Cook County) crossed home plate on a Monte Abeler (Upsala, Minn./Upsala) (Upsala, Minn./Upsala) groundout.  Things got ugly for NWC after that, as Macalester scored seven runs between the fourth and sixth innings to lead 8-1.  Add two more runs in the top of the seventh and the Eagles faced a 10-1 defecit with three frames to play.

NWC scored in the eighth as Riley Ege (Elk River, Minn./Elk River) (Elk River, Minn./Elk River) brought Josh Markwith (Honolulu, HI/Kalani) (Honolulu, Hawaii/Kalani) home on a fielder's choice.  The Eagles tacked on two more runs in the ninth on a pair of sacrifice flies, but that would be it as the lights went out on Northwestern's home schedule with a 10-6 final score.

Macalester out-hit the Purple and Gold 16-8 despite a pair of 2-3 performances at the plate from Borud and Zach Markwith (Honolulu, Hawaii/St. Louis) (Honolulu, Hawaii/St. Louis).  Markwith started the game on the mound, going five innings that included five earned runs and eight hits.  Olyad Regassa (Minneapolis, Minn./Minneapolis South) (Minneapolis, Minn./South) followed with two innings before Ben Schmidtke (Glyndon, Minn./Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton) threw the eighth and ninth frames in shutout fashion.

Now 14-18 on the season, Northwestern will rest for a couple days before heading north to face the Saints in Duluth on Friday for the first of a three-game series, when the first pitch at is scheduled for 3 p.m at Wallace Wade Stadium.