MARSHALL, MN – Another dominant effort on the hill by Austin Wagner and a dynamic offensive performance by Calvin James led the University of Mary baseball team to sweep Saturday's doubleheader at Southwest Minnesota State University. The Marauders captured the opener 7-0 before outlasting the Mustangs 18-14 in game two. The sweep allowed the Marauders to jump up into 7^th place in the NSIC standings.
 
GAME ONE University of Mary 7 Southwest Minnesota State University 0
After pitching five perfect innings in his last start, Austin Wagner pitched six scoreless innings today against SMSU. He limited the Mustangs to two hits and one walk while striking out four. The native of Fond du Lacs, WI, needed just 70 pitches to dispatch the SMSU hitters. After allowing a bunt single to lead off the third inning, Wagner retired 12 straight hitters to earn his second straight win.
 
PIVOT POINT
The Marauders scored the only run they needed in the second inning. Ty Jones led off with a single and took second on a passed ball before scoring on a Dakota Finley double to right center. Wagner and Mitch Oehme took charge for the rest of the game with Wagner throwing six scoreless innings and Oehme pitching a scoreless seventh inning.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Tyrus Barclay | 2x3, BB, 1 R, 1 RBI
• Calvin James | 1x3, HR, 2 R, 1 RBI, BB
• Riley Schlimm | 1x4, 2 RBI
• Braeton Wixo | 2 R
• Austin Wagner | 6.0 IP, 0 R, 2H, 1 BB, 4 K
• Mitch Oehme | 1.0 IP, 0 R, 2 K

 
STAT OF THE GAME
Austin Wagner has thrown 12 straight scoreless innings, allowing two hits and a walk during that stretch…. Wagner has allowed seven runs this season in six starts covering 27.1 innings. Five of the runs came in one game and five came in one game covering 4.1 innings. Outside of the one outlier, Wagner has allowed just two runs in his other 22 innings.
 
GAME TWO UMary 18 SMSU 14 (10 innings)
Calvin James blasted two of the Marauders four home runs in the game, lashed five hits and drove in six runs to lead the UMary offense in a wild 18-14 win in extra innings. The Marauders recorded 18 hits in the game but one of the nation's top defensive teams also committed four errors which led to four SMSU unearned runs in the ninth inning to force extra innings. For the game five different Marauders had multiple hits.
 
PIVOT POINT
The Marauders had built a seemingly insurmountable 12-2 lead that soon came crumbling down. After the Mustangs scored two in the sixth and four in the eighth to pull within 12-9, UMary added a pair of runs in the ninth. SMSU continued to fight, scoring five times – four unearned on two Marauders errors – to pull even at 14-14. UMary took control in the 10^th inning, plating four runs. After James Martin broke the deadlock with a bases-loaded walk and Spencer Gillund was hit by a pitch to force in a second run, James pulled a pitch into right field to score two more runs and seal the UMary win. Andrew Brooks came in to pitch and retired all three Mustangs he faced in order, including the last two on strikeouts.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• James Martin | 2B, 3 R
• Derek Shoen | 2x3, HR, 3 R, 2 RBI
• Calvin James | 5x7, 2B, 2 HR, 3 R, 6 RBI
• Ty Jones | 3x4, 2 R, 2B, HR, 4 RBI
• Dakota Finley | 3x5, 2 R
• Braeton Wixo | 2x5, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI
• Kody Jones | 5.0 IP, 4H, 2 ER, 4 BB, 2 K
• Andrew Brooks | 1.0 IP, O R, 2 K
• SMSU's Matt Bezdicek, Max Kalenberg had 3 hits each

STAT OF THE GAME
The Marauders bashed four home runs today and now have 40 on the season to set a new NCAA-era season record (was 37). The all-time school record for home runs in a single season is 48 set in 2000.
 
STAT OF THE GAME PART TWO
The Marauders earned their 14^th win of the NSIC season to tie the team record for conference wins with the 2008 team that went 14-18 in NSIC play.
 
ON DECK
The Marauders and the Mustangs close out their weekend series on Sunday, May 2, with a single 9-inning game at 12 noon.
 
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