Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

MINNEAPOLIS -- After posting one of their better games of the 2012 season last week against Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the Northwestern College baseball team struggled in a doubleheader against Macalester College on Monday, losing to the Scots 9-0 and 5-2 in the Metrodome.

In the first game of the day, four errors haunted the Eagles while NWC was on the bottom side of an 11-4 tally in hits. Three of Northwestern's errors came in the fifth inning, when Macalester poured on seven runs on four hits. Meanwhile, the Purple and Gold couldn't do much at the plate, recording two hits at most in an inning.

Tyler Campion (Robbinsdale, Minn./Maranatha Christian) gave up two runs on five hits in four innings of work to start on the mound for the Eagles. Cory Larson (Hudson, Wis./Hudson) took over in the treacherous fifth that included seven runs, only two of which were earned, while Mark Meredith (Robbinsdale, Minn./Armstrong) wrapped up the final two and one-third frames, allowing three hits and no runs.

Northwestern had a better showing in the second game, but still lost by three runs. The Eagles, playing as the visitors on the scoreboard in the second contest of the twin bill, scored immediately in the first frame after Cody Kielsa (Howard Lake, Minn./Rogers) led off with a double to left field. Kielsa then scored in Zach Markwith (Honolulu, Hawaii/St. Louis)'s at-bat two batters later.

The Scots posted a tying run in the bottom half of the inning. Macalester took the lead in the fourth, one of the frames in which NWC committed one of their two errors in that game. Andy Peterson (Rogers, Minn./Rogers), who went all six innings for Northwestern, allowed the Scots to score three runs in the sixth frame as Macalester put the game away.

Peterson's line included three earned runs and four strikeouts.

NWC improved at the plate in Game 2, out-hitting Macalester 8-6. Kielsa and Ethan Nichols (Brainerd, Minn/Brainerd) each collected two hits with Kielsa and Markwith earning RBIs.

Now 6-8 in 2012, the Eagles will prepare for their UMAC opening weekend at Presentation College, which begins on Friday at 3 p.m.