ST. PETER, Minn. – Wartburg baseball closed the 2025 regular season with a doubleheader split against Concordia College (Minn.) on Saturday, May 3. The Knights took game one 15-5 in seven innings and then fell in game two 8-7.
Wartburg is now 20-18 overall, while Concordia moves to 19-20 overall.
Game Summary
- Game One
- Second Inning
- Keegan Schmitt led off the second inning with a double to left field and was eventually brought home by Griffin Troha to give Wartburg a 1-0 lead early
- Fourth Inning
- Emerson Alberhasky finished off three hitless innings on the mound for Wartburg headed to the top of the fourth
- Zach Walton reached base to begin the fourth inning and was brought home by an RBI single from Schmitt to make it 2-0
- Following a single from Troha, Charlie Krueger doubled to bring home two more runners and extend the lead to 4-0
- Kruegar scored later in the inning after a Wiley Sullivan RBI, but Concordia got one run back following two Wartburg errors in the bottom half to make it 5-1
- Fifth Inning
- Walton and Carter Stubitz both singled in the fifth before eventually being brought home by another RBI from Schmitt followed by a two RBI double from Sullivan that extended the Knights' lead to 8-1
- Three hits in the bottom of the fifth led to one more run from the Cobbers to cut the lead to 8-2
- Sixth Inning
- Eliot Jurgensen singled and then stole second before being hit home by an RBI single from Walton
- Schmitt continued his monster game at the plate with a huge three-run blast to right center field that gave Wartburg a 12-2 lead after the top of the sixth
- Seventh Inning
- Wartburg added three runs in the final inning after Sullivan advanced home on a wild pitch and Jurgensen belted a two-run home run to left center field to put the Knights ahead 15-2
- Concordia brought three runs across in the seventh inning off four hits, but was held off for a 15-5 win
- Game Two
- Second Inning
- Concordia scored first in game two after a leadoff double to begin the second inning led to three hits and two runs to put Wartburg in an early 2-0 hole
- Fourth Inning
- Following another leadoff double, the Cobbers hit a home run to right field to push their lead to 4-0 after the top of the fourth inning
- Wartburg got on the board in the bottom half when Stubitz smacked a no-doubt homer to right field to make the score 4-1
- Fifth Inning
- The Knights rallied for five runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-4 lead after hits from Gehrig Turner, Andrew Robinson, Walton and Stubitz
- Jurgensen, Walton (double) and Stubitz (double) recorded RBI for Wartburg in the fifth
- Sixth Inning
- After a another leadoff double from Ben Shumansk, Concordia cut the deficit in half after a sacrifice flyout scored one run and made the score 6-5
- Turner singled and was brought home by a sacrifice flyout from Jayden Scott to put Wartburg in front 7-5
- Eighth Inning
- The Cobbers continued to cut away at the deficit in the eighth inning after one scored following a leadoff double from Shumansk (his third of the game, team fourth)
- Ninth Inning
- With two outs and two runners in the top of the ninth, Concordia hit a shallow blooper between the infield and center field that led to a Wartburg error that brought home both Cobber runners to give Concordia an 8-7 lead
- Wartburg was unable to score in the final frame to close out an 8-7 loss
Top Performers
Notes/Streaks
- Wartburg is now 5-4 all time against Concordia (Minn.)
- Updated home run totals this season:
- Stubitz (8), Schmitt (7) and Jurgensen (7)
- 15 hits as a team in game one were the most for Wartburg since 3/28 against Loras
- Ciero earned his fifth win of the season on the mound
Next Time Out
The Knights will move on to postseason play next as they open the American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) Tournament against Simpson College at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 8 at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
