Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MANKATO, Minn.--- The Minnesota State baseball program took two away wins on Sunday afternoon against the Bemidji State University Beavers at the MSU Baseball Complex located on the campus of Minnesota State.  The Mavericks won the first game by a clip of 6-3 while coming away with an 11-6 victory in game two.

After the two wins, Minnesota State improved to 12-8 (3-3 NSIC) on the year while the Beavers moved to 3-19 (0-6 NSIC) on the season.

In game one, Minnesota State jumped out to an early lead scoring three unanswered runs in the first-three innings.  In the bottom of the first, junior Eric Peterson got things going when he was hit by a pitch with one out and then stole second.  Sophomore Dylan Dresel then came up and shot a two-out single to left field, scoring Peterson from second.  

In the third frame, senior Kyle Toth, Peterson, and senior Taylor Branstad all reached to account for one of the two runs scored.  Branstad singled down the right-field line to score Toth from second and Peterson was batted in from third when Dresel hit a sacrifice fly to left to make it 3-0.  

Bemidji State got on the board in the top of the fifth with one run, the only run that starting pitcher, sophomore Dalton Roach gave up on the day.  The Mavericks responded with three more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Freshman Jordan Hart tagged his first of two triples on the day, scoring sophomore Josh Wenzel and Dresel from second and third.  Junior catcher Hunter Harnisch followed with a sac fly to right to bring in Hart from third, making it a 6-1 game.  

The Beavers were not done as they tallied two more in the top of the seventh and final inning of game one to cement the game a 6-3 in favor of Minnesota State.

Roach collected the moving his record to 2-2 on the year throwing 4.1 inning giving up one run on six hits and fanning two.  Senior Peter Gaustad and freshman Daniel Feneis also got in some work on the bump during the final 2.2 innings.

In game two, the Mavericks busted out for a big lead in the first three innings, outscoring the Beavers 8-1 including three runs in each of the first two innings.  Minnesota State's first eight runs featured a three-run homer by Hart in the first inning, an RBI double from Toth and a two-run blast from Peterson in the second, and a two-RBI single from Branstad in the bottom of the third inning.  

The Beavers tacked on their second run of the game in the top of the fifth inning when BSU's Gunner Olszewski reached on an infield single and advanced to second on a wild pitch.  Olszewski scored on the next play that featured a Maverick error, taking the game to a 8-2 mark.  Minnesota State countered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning that featured Hart's second triple of the day and runs from Toth, Hart, and Branstad who double in the inning to go up 11-2.  

The Beavers would go on to score four runs in the last four inning to Minnesota State's zero, including two in the top of the sixth and two in the top of the ninth inning.  

Sophomore Brody Rodning picked up his second win of the season (2-1), throwing six complete innings giving up four runs (two earned) on nine hits and striking out four.  

Offensively, six Mavericks collected two or more hits, including sophomore Luke Waldek who went 3-3 in the game with one run and one walk.  Peterson, Branstad, and Hart all had two or more runs batted in during the affair with Hart collecting three.

Finishing out the game on the hill for MSU was junior Bailey Scott, Josh Matheson, and Tyler Frohwirth who all threw one inning apiece.

The Mavericks will resume action with Bemidji State tomorrow, Monday, April 4 with the first game against the Beavers starting at 12:00 p.m. and the second game to follow.