Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score


The Bulldogs of the University of Minnesota Duluth swept Upper Iowa in a NSIC baseball double header Saturday.  UMD scored 18 runs in the two games on 21 hits, while holding their guests to just three runs on 13 hits.  After the two losses (10-1 and 8-2), UIU falls to 13-20 overall and 9-9 in the Northern Sun.

Game One Recap

Upper Iowa got a run on the board in the first inning after Tyler Adams led the game off with a single and, after stealing second, came home on a Andrew Kraus single up the middle.  The run would be the Peacocks only run in the opening game. 
 
The Bulldogs scored a run to tie the game in the second inning and then added two in the third highlighted by a solo shot to open the inning.  After pushing another two runs across in the fourth, the home team exploded for five runs on four hits, a pair of walks and a hit batsman. 
 
UIU was held to just five hits, two by Kraus, by UMD’s Colin Stinogel, while Mario Madera (4-1) suffered his first loss of the season allowing nine runs on ten hits in 5.2 innings.
 
Game Two Recap
 
The home team put a run on the board in the fourth inning for the game's first mark and then added a quick five runs in the fifth inning on just one hit.  The Bulldogs were aided by three walks and a pair of wild pitches.  The one hit in the inning was a three-run homer.

UIU's two runs came in the seventh with two outs on a Juve Reyes double that brought two Peacocks home.

The Bulldogs added a run in the seventh and one more in the eighth to put the final margin at six, 8-2.

Tyler Beck (2-2) took the loss for UIU after 4.1 innings; he allowed four runs, two were earned, on five hits while striking out a pair of Bulldogs. 

Jordan Smith earned the complete game win for UMD with 9 innings of work.  He scattered eight hits while only allowing the two runs and striking out 10 Peacocks.
 
The two teams will return to Bulldog Park tomorrow and finish their four-game series beginning at noon.