Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MANKATO, Minn. --- Third-ranked Minnesota State collected its 30th victory of the season as the Mavericks swept visiting Bemidji State by margins of 7-4 and 8-0 in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference action Tuesday afternoon at the MSU Baseball Complex.
 
The pair of victories elevate MSU to 30-7 overall and 18-4 in conference play, while BSU drops to 13-14 on the year and 7-7 within the league.
 
Bemidji State got the scoring going in the 1st inning of game one with a RBI single from senior Zack Braun. In the bottom half of the second, the Mavericks tallied two runs off three hits. Sophomore Taylor Branstad brought junior Connor McCallum home with a RBI double. The next batter, freshman Hunter Harnisch, singled home Branstad making it 2-1 Mavericks.
 
Junior Max Waletich kept the runs coming in the third singling home senior Todd Standish, before Branstad collected another RBI with a bases-loaded walk.
 
The Beavers came back in the top of the fourth as they tied the game, 4-4. Senior Cole Bjorge collected a RBI off a fielder's choice scoring senior Joey Hanowski. Junior Dylan Webb added another run off a fielder's choice that plated Braun, before freshman Terry Hadden hit a RBI double to left field scoring freshman Bo Schmitz.
 
The Mavericks answered quickly in the bottom of the fourth with some heads up base running. Waletich got caught stealing but no before Standish scored from third putting the Mavericks up, 5-4. In the bottom of the sixth, the Mavericks added some insurance when senior Parker Sullivan hit a two-run single securing the 7-4 win.
 
Junior righthander Mathias Butala improved to 3-2 after striking out one and allowing four earned runs in four innings of work. Freshman righthander Mitchell Bauer tossed two innings of scoreless relief, before junior lefthander Matt Geislinger earned his second save with a perfect seventh inning.
 
In the second affair, junior Nolan Johnson drove in each of MSU's first two runs with a sacrifice fly in the first and a single through the left side in the third. That score held until the Mavericks erupted for six runs in the bottom of the eighth. Johnson opened the frame with a solo home run to left, his third of the year, before Sullivan and Standish capped the inning with a two-run triple and two-run double, respectively.
 
Sophomore Josh Matheson keyed the fifth Maverick shutout of the season fanning five and scattering four hits over 5.1 innings to improve to 1-1. Seniors Bryce Bellin and Jason Hoppe along with freshman Joey Reed allowed just one base runner over 3.2 frames of relief.
 
Minnesota State continues conference play this week with a four-game series at Northern State beginning Thursday at 1:30 p.m.