DS >
scores & schedules
Baseball
tuesday april 27, 2010
> Inside:
sports
NDSU-UND scheduling update and womens softball drops two versus USD, pg. 14.
UND: 6 UND: 5 UND: 20 UND: 7 NYT: 11 NYT: 11 NYT: 19 NYT: 3
Softball UND: 3 UND: 6 USD: 4 USD: 8
Track & @ SDSU Twilight Invite, today in Field Brookings, S.D.
After a lengthy 27 game road trip, Sioux return home and ...
SPLIT SERIES
photos by ANDY CIULLA > The Dakota Student Junior outfielder Josh Ray connects during Sunday’s 7-3 win over New York Technical. This weekend was the first time the Sioux competed at home after a 27 game road trip. Ray scored a run out of three at bats and had no RBI’s.
>
Timothy boger
The Dakota Student
The Sioux wrapped up a four-game series Sunday by earning a split with the New York Tech Bears in their home opening series at Kraft Field in Grand Forks. It had everything, from great pitching performances to one of the greatest hitting expositions in school history? The Bears jumped out early and didn’t look back in the home opener, scoring a trio of runs in each of the fourth and fifth inning. North Dakota starter Zac Salfer was dispatched after four innings of work, and he was given his fourth loss of the season (2-4). The two played a wild and crazy doubleheader Saturday, the excitement of which nearly dwarfed a historic day for first baseman Jake Magner, who hit six home runs in the doubleheader, four in the wild 20-19 victory for the Sioux in the nightcap. Magner, who came into the day with six home runs on the year, hit two home runs in the first game that ended up almost as a carbon copy of Friday night’s game. New York Tech was all over the Sioux pitching staff in an 11-5 victory. It was that nightcap that provided a nail-biting, seesaw battle of a game that was only made more exciting by Magner’s performance. Magner hit four home
runs and drove in nine runs, and his team backed him up to ensure that the historic day was not a losing one. North Dakota scored in every inning but the fifth, and they led 14-3 after four innings. Two late rallies by the Bears would prove to keep the pressure on the Fighting Sioux. New York Tech put up two seven-run innings on the board in the fifth and seventh to keep the game close. Three insurance runs by North Dakota in the 7th and 8th were exactly what they needed, and senior Josh Nelson’s RBI double in the eighth scored the 20th run of the game, the magic number as it would turn out. New York Tech would get a two-run home run in the ninth to bring the game within one, but a groundout ended the game. Magner’s four home runs is a UND record. Five players in Sioux history hit three in a game, the last one being Anthony Brenner in 2007. Magner also broke the record for RBI’s in a game with nine, beating co-holders Troy Wasiloski (2005) and Gabe Dahl (2000) who each hit eight. Sunday was a polar opposite of Saturday night’s slugfest. North Dakota picked up their ninth win of the season largely thanks to sophomore starter David Lind (2-1, 5.40 ERA).
15
SIOUX > page