AUBURNDALE, Fla. - The Minnesota Morris baseball team recorded their first wins of the Florida trip and first wins of the season Saturday in recording a doubleheader sweep of Lawrence University.
The Cougars put up crooked numbers in both the third and fourth innings and it would be prove to be all they would need in a 10-4 game one victory. UMM scored four times in the third to overcome a 2-0 deficit.
Trent Johnson singled to lead off the frame and he quickly made it home on a
Chandler Erickson triple.
Lucas Luedtke followed with an RBI single to tie it at 2. Later,
Zach Kuefler brought in a pair with a single to give the Cougars a 4-2 edge.
UMM added three more in the fourth. The rally started again with a Johnson base hit, this time a double. He would later score on an error. Luedtke and
Jackson Gessell would also come across for runs that would give the Cougars a 7-2 lead.
The Cougars would add single runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. Kuefler went 4-for-4 in the opener with three RBIs. Johnson added three base hits as the Cougars belted out 15.
In the second game, Minnesota Morris again spotted Lawrence two runs before taking the lead for the first time in the fifth. Lawrence tied it at 4 in the sixth, before the Cougars got the go-ahead run in the bottom half as
Bryce Jergenson scored the eventual-winning run on an error.
Mitch Reller pitched six solid innings to get the win. He struck out six while allowing five hits.
Tyler Hannan pitched a perfect seventh to record the save.
Minnesota Morris (2-8) wraps up play in Florida Sunday with a doubleheader against Lesley University.
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