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M State Sweeps Home and Home Series from Northland

By Craig Olson, 05/13/19, 12:15PM CDT

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The M State baseball team won both ends of a double header on Saturday in Thief River Falls and then won twice on Sunday in Fergus Falls as they won all four games in their weekend home and home series against the Northland Pioneers.

Jake Dykhoff (6IP, 5H, 2ER, 4K, 1BB) was the winning pitcher in the Spartans 9-2 win in game one on Saturday.  Dykhoff helped his own cause by going 3-for-3 with a homer, 3 runs batted in and a run scored.  Matt Pietsch was 2-for-4 with 2 runs scored and Devin Bush went 2-for-4 with a double, one RBI and 2 runs scored.  Rory Drewes contributed a RBI double for the Spartans.

In their 11-4 game two victory on Saturday, Matt Hagen (5IP, 2H, 3ER, 4BB, 6K) improved his season record on the mound to 2-2.  Austin Stanislawski (2IP, 2H, 1ER, 1BB, 2K) finished the game.  Devin Bush had a big day at the plate, picking up 3 hits in 4 at bats, including a double and homer, driving in 3 runs and scoring twice.  Ryan Schmitz had a double, 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, Rory Drewes was 3-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored and Matt Pietsch went 2-for-4 with a RBI and 2 runs scored.  Cody Arlt (2-3, BB) and Austin Oetter (2-4) also had multiple hits in the game.

Levi Arnold ran his record to 6-0 when he earned the game one victory on Sunday, 5-2, allowing 8 hits and no earned runs, while striking out six batters in four innings of work.  Nick Endersby (2IP, 2H, 1BB) and Skylar Mursu (1IP) finished up out of the bullpen with Mursu earning his ninth save of the season.  Offensive leaders for the Spartans were Arlt (2-2, BB), Dykhoff (1-3, R), Pietsch (1-3, 3B, 2RBI, R), Ryan Schmitz (1-3, 2B, RBI, R), Oetter (1-2, RBI) and Tom Magnusson (BB, R).

In their 4-2 win in the second game on Sunday, Eric Salvesen won his fifth game of the year, going four innings, allowing one earned run on four hits, striking out two and walking three.  Mitch Porter threw two innings of scoreless relief and Chandler Gramm picked up his first save with a scoreless seventh.  Leading hitters were Pietsch (1-3, 2B, 2RBI, R), Drewes (1-1, 3B, BB, 3R), Dykhoff (1-3, RBI, SB) and Schmitz (1-1, 2B).