MANKATO, Minn. --- The third-rated Minnesota State baseball team took two games from Winona State on Friday at the MSU Baseball Complex. The Mavericks took game one 3-2 and dropped the Warriors in game two 7-3 to improve its winning streak to 22 games.

The Purple and Gold remain tied on top of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with St. Cloud State and stand 39-4 overall and are 29-3 in league play. The Warriors fall to 20-27 overall and 18-16 on the league circuit.

In game one, WSU scored off a double to right field to take a 1-0 lead after one inning of play. MSU came back and tied the game in the second after senior Nolan Johnson doubled to right field and later scored when redshirt freshman Dylan Dresel grounded out.

The Mavericks took the lead for good in the third inning of play. Senior Connor McCallum hit an infield single and picked up an RBI with redshirt freshman Josh Wenzel scoring on the play. Johnson later hit a sacrifice fly scoring junior Kyle Toth to put MSU up 3-1.

The Warriors added one more run in the sixth but junior Dakota Belter shut them down and picked up his eighth save of the year. Redshirt freshman Aaron Rozek moved to 6-0 after pitching 5.2 innings allowing five hits, two earned runs, two walks while striking out seven batters.

MSU jumped out to a 3-0 lead in game two in the first inning. Toth led off the game with a triple to the gap in left center and McCallum followed that up with a single to right. Waletich then singled and Johnson laid down a sacrifice bunt to move up the runners to second and third. Junior Taylor Branstad picked up an RBI and Dresel hit a single to pick up an RBI for himself.

The Warriors tallied one run in the third but the Mavericks put up another three spot in the fourth, all runs coming with two outs. Senior Kevin Kramer, who robbed the Warriors of a home run earlier in the game, hit a double to right center to plate Wenzel and redshirt freshman Luke Waldek. Toth followed that up with an RBI single to plate Kramer.

A home run by McCallum gave MSU a 7-1 lead heading into the ninth inning. The Warriors started to mount a rally in the ninth inning, but Belter came in a struck out the first batter he faced and forced the next batter to hit into a double play to end the game. For Belter, that was his ninth save of the year and second of the day.

Sophomore Mitchell Bauer pitched seven innings and scattered six hits, allowed one earned and walked one while striking out six to pick up win number four. Junior Tyler Ockuly pitched one inning in relief and allowed two runs, one earned, and four hits.

The Mavericks and Warriors will play a doubleheader tomorrow afternoon beginning at 12 p.m. at the MSU Baseball Complex for the final regular season home games of the year. Minnesota State will honor its senior's between the two games.