MORRIS, Minn. – The Cougars (12-22) were swept by Carleton (13-19) in their final regular season home games of the year on Sunday. The Knights won 12-5 in game one and 7-3 in the second game. It was the final home games for a group of six seniors who helped UMM get their most wins since before the turn of the century last season. This season they were part of a team that beat St. Scholastica for the first time since 1996.
 
GAME 1
 
After a couple scoreless frames Minnesota Morris got on the board first with a run in the bottom of the third. A dropped foul ball kept the Cougars in the inning and Jackson Gessell drove in Eric Terres to give UMM the lead. It would not hold up for long as Carleton responded with five runs on three hits in the fourth. Morris would walk four batters and hit one in the inning.
 
The Cougars would try to stay in the game, scoring twice in the bottom half of the inning. Kylan Hill drove in Chandler Erickson with a sac fly and Terres drove in Evan Ellingworth, cutting the Knights lead to just two. 
 
Unfortunately for UMM, Carleton scored twice in the fifth and four times in the sixth to put the game away. Morris did score twice in the bottom of the seventh but it was not enough to make a difference.
 
GAME 2
 
Carleton's Walker Froehling kept the Cougars hitters confused for the first five innings of the second game, allowing just one hit. His offense gave him some help, pushing across seven runs over the same amount of time.
 
Morris scored a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth but it was not enough to get them back in the game.  It would end being a 7-3 loss after Gessell had an RBI triple in the bottom of the seventh.
 
Next up for the Cougars is a pair of games against Martin Luther on Tuesday. The first of which will count as a UMAC contest and the second will be a non-conference contest to make up for some of the games each team has lost to weather throughout the season.