SIOUX FALLS, SD – For the fourth time in a week, a longtime University of Mary baseball record was broken. After breaking the school mark for strikeouts in a game in his last start,
Austin Wagner broke the Marauders single season strikeout record with a punchout in the day's first game of the weekend against Minot State University. While the Marauders will remember the game for the broken record, UMary's win streak was snapped at eight as the Beavers swept the Northern Sun doubleheader.
GAME ONE | Minot State 4 University of Mary 0
One week after setting the University of Mary single game strikeout record,
Austin Wagner broke the Marauders single season mark for punchouts. Needing four entering the day to pass the total of 73 registered by Dale Dingmann in 2000, Wagner whiffed seven Minot State hitters in his six inning outing.
In a battle between a pair of hard throwing lefties, Minot State's Ricky Apodaca matched Wagner's seven strikeouts while throwing four no-hit innings. A trio of Beavers relievers combined with Apodaca on the shutout while holding the Marauders to two hits on the day.
Minot State opened the scoring with a single run in the second inning. A Marauders miscue in the third led to three unearned runs.
Wagner set the season strikeout record in the fourth inning when he struck out Mark Ossanna for the final out. The junior from Fond du Lacs, WI, allowed six hits and one walk. Only one of the four runs he allowed was earned.
PIVOT POINT
Trailing by one after two innings, the Marauders allowed three unearned runs in the third inning and never recovered. With two outs and a Minot State runner on first base, an errant throw allowed the inning to continue and the Beavers took advantage of the extra out. Three straight two-out run-scoring singles followed to push the MSU advantage to 4-0.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Ty Jones | 1x2, 1 BB, SB
- Austin Wagner | 6.0 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 Ks
- Liam Sommer | 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 BB
- MSU Ricky Apodaca | 4.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 7 Ks
STAT OF THE GAME
1
st time the Marauders have been shut out this season.
GAME 2 | Minot State 12 UMary 1
Noah Hull singled to score
Derek Shoen in the first inning to tie the second game at 1-1 but the Marauders wouldn't cross the plate again. The Beavers scored four runs in back to back innings to pull away from the Marauders to claim a sweep of the Northern Sun doubleheader relocated to Sioux Falls, SD, due to recent snowfall in North Dakota.
Shoen was perfect at the plate in the contest, going 3-for-3 with a double and a walk.
PIVOT POINT
Minot State broke a 1-1 tie with four runs in the second inning, the big blow a 3-run double by Declan Buckle. Ossanna then hit a 3-run home run for the Beavers in the third inning as Minot State scored four runs in both the second and third innings.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
STAT OF THE GAME
Derek Shoen finished the day with three of the Marauders eight hits in the doubleheader…
Ty Jones reached base four times in two games, three times on walks.
ON DECK
The Marauders and Beavers conclude their three game set with a single game on Sunday, April 24. 1
st pitch is set for 10 am at Ronken Field in Sioux Falls, SD.
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