Box Score 1 ST. PETER, Minn. – The Carleton College baseball team split their four-game set with the University of Wisconsin-Superior Yellowjackets, dropping both ends of the twin bill 5-4 and 17-5 (both games 7 inn.).
Game One Recap
Starting pitchers Will Schnepf and Zach Romans dueled for four innings, with the only blemish on either’s record an RBI single by Asher Stolberg for Carleton (2-2) in the third. The Knights chased Yellowjackets (2-4) starter Romans in the fifth, and Sam Gossard plated Andrew Sellers with a sac fly. Nathan Barnhart stung a double to left in the sixth that scored two more, putting Carleton up 4-0.
Reliever Dan Avillo replaced Schnepf after four and retired five of his first six batters faced, but Devin Fryden capped a sixth-inning rally for UW-Superior with a 3-run bomb. In the seventh, Jonny Rhodes and Noah Dagostino hit back-to-back home runs to tie and then walk off the game.
Gossard, Barnhart, and Jack Hommeyer all posted identical 2-for-3 lines. Barnhart’s two hits were both doubles.
Schnepf’s final line was a sterling 4.0 innings pitched, no hits or runs allowed, and three punchouts, before being pulled due to early-season pitch count caution.
Game Two Recap
UW-Superior carried the momentum from their walkoff win into game two, putting up crooked numbers in each of the first two innings to go up 10-0. Aaron Rice hooked a line-drive 3-run home run (the first of his career) inside the left field foul pole to put Carleton on the board in the fourth, and later zipped an RBI single up the middle, but the senior’s contributions weren’t enough, as the Yellowjackets scored at least one run each of the six times they came to the plate, outslugging the Knights to split the series.
Rice went 3-for-3 with two runs and four RBI. Gossard added two hits.
Ethan Chan entered the game with bases loaded and one out and escaped with just a run of damage, and would go 1.2 innings with one earned run. In his first collegiate appearance, Luke Reisig also limited trouble on the mound, conceding just a run from a bases loaded, no out scenario.
Up Next for the Knights
Due to freezing forecasts in Eau Claire, Carleton’s next pair of contests against the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire are up in the air. As of now, they are set for Saturday, Mar. 8 at 1:00 and 3:30 p.m. in Eau Claire, Wisc. Stay tuned to athletics.carleton.edu for any changes in time, date, or location.
