LINCOLN, Neb. – Baseball took both games in a doubleheader on the road against Nebraska Wesleyan University on Thursday, May 4. The Knights won game one 9-2 and then rallied for four runs in the ninth in game two to win 9-5. Wartburg is now 14-18 overall and 9-14 in American Rivers Conference play heading into the final game of the regular season.
Game Summary
- Game One
- NWU got on the board with a bloop single to right field to go up 1-0 after one inning
- Eliot Jurgensen had an answer for the Knights in the top of the second with a solo-shot homerun to left field to tie the game at one
- The Knights homered again in the third, this time a solo homerun to left-center field from Zach Walton to make it 2-1
- Nebraska Wesleyan tied it back up in the bottom of the third
- Zach Wesolowski doubled in the fifth to start a two out rally that loaded the bases and led to two runs being walked in before NWU got out of the jam
- Knights led 4-2 after four innings
- The score remained 4-2 Wartburg after six innings
- Cole Wessling and Will Armstrong both hit RBI singles in the seventh to push the lead to 6-2
- Walton walked with the bases loaded to add another run and then Wesolowski singled to score two more runs that made the score 9-2 through the seventh
- The Knights closed out a dominant 9-2 win
- Game Two
- Walton hit an RBI single that scored Keaton Gray and then Jurgensen hit a two RBI double that gave the Knights an early 3-0 lead after the top of the first inning
- Max Hansen got out of a small jam with runners on the corners in the second inning and the score remained 3-0
- Carter Stubitz and Wessling both singled in the fourth inning, but were left stranded to keep the score at 3-0 through three and half innings
- A fielder's choice from Wesolowski scored Gray in the fifth inning to make it 4-0 after he recorded his second hit of the game
- NWU answered in the bottom of the fifth with its first run of the game to make the score 4-1
- After a scoreless sixth, Nebraska Welseyan plated three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game at 4-4
- Jurgensen continued his great day at the plate with a triple in the eighth before he was brought home by a Stubitz sacrifice fly to put Wartburg back up 5-4
- In the bottom half of the inning the Knights escaped a bases loaded jam, but not before one run scored to tie the game at 5-5
- The Knights loaded the bases in the ninth after Gray, Caleb Andrews and Wesolowski all walked before a Sam Nicolino single scored two runs
- Drew Conrad scored on a wild pitch and Nicolino scored on a sacrifice fly from Wessling to make it 9-5 heading to the final frame
- Armstrong closed out NWU on the mound to secure a 9-5 win
Top Performers
- Game One
- Jurgensen
- Walton
- 3/5 at the plate
- Homerun
- Two RBI
- Walk
- Wesolowski
- 2/6 at the plate
- Two RBI
- Double
- Cael Boehmer
- 7 IP
- Win (Now 4-1)
- Four strikeouts
- Game Two
- Jurgensen
- Andrews
- Nicolino
- Ninth inning go-ahead two RBI single
Notes/Streaks
- Wartburg now leads the all-time series 12-7
- First A-R-C doubleheader sweep this season
- Has 10+ hits in 11 of last 15 games
- Game one was the first multi-homerun game of the season for the Knights
- 16 hits in game one was second most in a game this season
- First four-hit game for Jurgensen and Armstrong this season
- Third homerun for Walton and second for Jurgensen this season
Next Time Out
Wartburg will close the regular season on the road against Nebraska Wesleyan on Friday, May 5 beginning at 1 p.m.
