Box Score

ST. PAUL -- A 10-run second inning gave the College of St. Scholastica a 12-4 win and a three-game sweep over Northwestern College on Sunday, wrapping up a rain delayed drawn out series that lasted three days. The Eagles fielded 18 players throughout the seven-inning game including five pitchers.

NWC was the team to score first as the Eagles took their first lead of the weekend in the bottom of the first frame. With runners on first and third bases, Zach Markwith (Honolulu, Hawaii/St. Louis) picked up an RBI on a fielder's choice as Cody Kielsa (Howard Lake, Minn./Rogers) scored from third. Bryan McCallum (Rogers, Minn./Rogers), who started the day at first base for Northwestern, later hit a sacrifice fly to bring home Markwith.

St. Scholastica came back with a dominating response in the top of the second inning. Eagles pitcher Mark Meredith (Robbinsdale, Minn./Armstrong) walked the Saints' first two batters and things went downhill from there. St. Scholastica posted 10 hits in the inning with Meredith getting one out in the frame before being relieved by Connor Olson (Mahtomedi, Minn/Mahtomedi) after facing eight Saints in that go-around.

Northwestern picked up another run in t he bottom of the second as Kielsa hit a two-out solo home run, his fourth of the season.

The Saints would get another run off of Olson and one more off TJ Studer (Perham, Minn/Perham) in the third and fourth. NWC took advantage of a CSS error in the fourth when Markwith doubled down the left field line to score Kielsa from second base.

Three innings, two pitchers and a host of substitutions later, the game ended with a 12-4 final score in St. Scholastica's favor.

Northwestern had eight hits in the game, almost half of the Saints' 20 while each team recorded three errors. Meredith received credit for the loss on the hill, giving up six runs in one and one-third innings. Josh Hanson (Plymouth, Minn./Maranatha Christian) was the lone Eagles player to tally multiple hits, going 2-3 in the batter's box. Markwith had two RBI on the day.

Now 24-14 overall (15-6 UMAC), Northwestern will enter the UMAC Tournament on Thursday, May 10 as the No. 3 seed in the four-team, double elimination event at Wade Stadium in Duluth, Minn. The Eagles will face second-seeded Bethany Lutheran College in the first round, with that game starting at 10 a.m.