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04-05-2025
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Jackrabbits shut down Northern Colorado, 11-2
BROOKINGS, S.D. (SDSU) — Caleb Duerr and Jake Goble combined to hold Northern Colorado scoreless over the final eight innings and Owen Siegert supplied the offense with a pair of home runs to lead South Dakota State to an 11-2 victory over Northern Colorado in Summit League baseball action Saturday afternoon at Erv Huether Field. In evening the three-game series at a game apiece, the Jackrabbits improved to 13-29 overall and 9-13 in league play. UNC dropped to 17-27 overall and 8-15 in The Summit League. Duerr struggled in the early going as the Bears took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. After a leadoff walk to Carter Monda and bunt single by Brett Barber, Jake King plated both runs with a two-out single up the middle. A freshman from Melbourne, Iowa, Siegert put SDSU on the board with a home run to lead off the bottom of the second, then helped jump-start a six-run fourth inning. After Bryce Ronken singled to lead off the home half of the fourth, Siegert doubled off the fence in right field to move Ronken to third. After Jess Bellows was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Dagen Schramm and Nic Werk each drew two-out walks to force in the tying and go-ahead runs. More two-out magic followed as Carter Sintek and Nolan Grawe hit back-to-back two-run doubles to push the Jackrabbit lead to 7-2. Schramm added another run-scoring double in the fifth and Siegert capped the scoring with a three-run homer to right in the eighth. Meanwhile, Duerr limited Northern Colorado to only three base runners the remainder of his five-inning start. The freshman right-hander allowed only three hits while striking out three and walking four. Goble followed with four hitless and scoreless innings, striking out one while allowing only a walk and a hit batter en route to his first career save. SDSU finished with a 12-3 advantage in hits as Siegert, Sintek and Ronken each tallied three hits. The Bears did not record a hit after the first inning. UNC starter Trevor Landen struck out seven, but allowed the first six runs after surrendering four hits and walking two. Five other Bear hurlers were summoned to the mound on Saturday. UP NEXTThe decisive game of the series is scheduled for a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday. NOTES UNC leads the season series, 3-2 The Jackrabbits lead the all-time series, 42-37 SDSU improved to 10-5 at Erv Huether Field this season Siegert's home runs were his fourth and fifth of the season and he also moved into a tie for the team lead in doubles with 10 Siegert became the third Jackrabbit player to hit two home runs in a game this season, joining Bryce Ronken (March 1 at Sacramento State) and Luke Luskey (April 22 vs. Northwestern) Sintek upped his team-leading hit total to 60 and is 6-for-9 (.667 batting average) in the series Ronken is batting .522 (12-for-23) in five games against Northern Colorado this season Duerr evened his record at 4-4 Goble issued his first walk in his last six outings, covering 27 1/3 innings Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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03-05-2025
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Northern Colorado scores late to defeat SDSU
BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO) — Northern Colorado scored five times in the top of the eighth inning and received five shutout innings in relief from Hunter Gibson to post a 9-6 victory over South Dakota State in the opening game of a three-game Summit League baseball series Friday afternoon at Erv Huether Field. UNC improved to 17-26 overall and 8-14 in league play. The Jackrabbits dropped to 12-29 overall and 8-13 in The Summit League. SDSU scored in each of the first four innings in holding a 6-4 lead midway through the contest. After the Bears scored twice in the top of the first inning, the Jackrabbits quickly loaded the bases in their first at-bat on only three pitches as Carter Sintek singled, Nolan Grawe doubled to the warning track in left-center field and Bryce Ronken was hit by a pitch. However, the Jackrabbits would only come away with one run in the first inning as Jess Bellows came through with a two-out infield single that plated Sintek. UNC used more small ball to score an unearned run in the top of the second, but SDSU drew back to within a run when Keagen Jirschele led off the bottom of the frame with his second home run off the season. Jirschele then tied the game at 3-all an inning later with an RBI double. An RBI single by Brett Barber put the Bears back out front at 4-3 in the fourth before SDSU struck for three runs in the home half of the inning. Bryce Ronken doubled in both Sintek and Grawe for the first two runs, with Ronken later scoring on a sacrifice fly by Adam Benes. It remained a 6-4 game until the fateful top of the eighth, when the Bears batted around. Jake King walked and Craig Kenny reached on an infield single off SDSU reliever Tristan Augedahl to open the inning. The Jackrabbits then went to closer Dylan Driessen, who walked pinch hitter Dalton Miller to load the bases before Nick Barber plated one run with a groundout and Carter Monda followed two batters later with a two-run, go-ahead single to right field. Another groundout plated the fourth run of the inning and an RBI infield single by Kai Wagner capped the rally. Gibson, meanwhile, allowed only three hits over his five innings of work as he struck out three batters. UNC starter Murphy Gienger allowed six runs on nine hits while striking out four and walking three in four innings. Arlen Peters was the first of six Jackrabbit pitchers in the game and surrendered three earned runs on five hits in three-plus innings. He walked two and struck out one. Alex Clemons fanned three batters in two scoreless innings. SDSU finished with a 12-10 advantage in hits as Sintek and Grawe each tallied three hits and Jirschele added two. Brett Barber, King and Kenny each notched two hits for the Bears. UP NEXTThe middle game of the series is slated for 1 p.m. Saturday. NOTES UNC leads the season series, 3-1, and has won nine of the last 10 meetings The Jackrabbits hold a 41-37 advantage in the all-time series Ronken reached base for the 20th game in a row, which is the largest streak by an SDSU player this season Grawe has multiple hits in six of the last seven games Sintek took over the team lead with his 17th multi-hit game of the season Jirschele's home run was the first hit by a Jackrabbit in the second inning of a game this season Ty Madison made his team-leading 17 pitching appearance of the year and was credited with a scoreless fourth inning SDSU is expected to be without the services of its leading home run and RBI man in Luke Luskey for the remainder of the season after he suffered a knee injury last weekend against North Dakota State Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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26-04-2025
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Clutch hitting leads SDSU to win over Bison
BROOKINGS, S.D. (SDSU) — South Dakota State scored all six of its runs on two-out hits, including the go-ahead two-run single from Jess Bellows in the bottom of the seventh inning, as the Jackrabbits downed North Dakota State, 6-3, in the opening game of a four-game Summit League baseball series Friday afternoon at Erv Huether Field. SDSU improved to 10-27 overall and 6-11 in league play. The Bison, who saw their losing skid reach four games, fell to 13-24 overall and 10-8 in The Summit League. The Jackrabbits grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a two-run double to left field by Bryce Ronken that plated both Nolan Grawe and Luke Luskey. SDSU starter Arlen Peters held the Bison hitless through 4 1/3 innings and carried a shutout into the sixth inning. NDSU tied the game at 2-all in the sixth when Jake Schaffner led off with a walk and scored on Davis Hamilton's home run to right-center field. Tristan Augedahl followed with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for SDSU before giving way to closer Dylan Driessen. After stranding two men in the third, fifth and sixth innings against NDSU starter Nolan Johnson, the Jackrabbits put together a pair of two-out rallies against the Bison bullpen in the late innings. In the home seventh, Luskey and Owen Siegert hit back-to-back two-out singles and Ronken worked a walk to load the bases. In a long at-bat in which he fouled off several two-strike pitches from Skyler Riedinger, Bellows lined a single to center field that brought home both Luskey and Siegert for a 4-2 Jackrabbit lead. Some anxious moments ensued for the Jackrabbits in the top of the eighth. Hamilton reached on a sun-aided double to right field with one out in the inning and later scored when the throw to third base on a steal attempt glanced far enough off the glove of Grawe to allow Hamilton to race home. Driessen then walked each of the next three batters to load the bases, but the junior right-hander got out of the jam by striking out Alex Urlaub looking on a 3-2 pitch. SDSU countered with more two-out hitting in the bottom of the eighth. Adam Benes led off with a single against Bison reliever Sam Roberts, but remained there after the next two Jackrabbit hitters were retired. However, Benes moved up two bases on an errant pickoff attempt and scored on Grawe's third hit of the game, an infield single back up the middle. Grawe then circled the bases as Luskey doubled to the fence in left field for the Jackrabbit first baseman's third hit of the game. The Jackrabbits ended up with a 13-3 advantage in the hit column for the game. Siegert added two hits for SDSU. Driessen worked a perfect top of the ninth to close out his second win of the season. He struck out four and walked three over the final 2 1/3 innings. Peters also fanned four and walked three in his season-best five-plus innings. For NDSU, Johnson recorded nine strikeouts, walked two and scattered seven hits over six solid frames. UP NEXTThe two squads are scheduled to play a doubleheader Saturday, starting at 11 a.m. NOTES NDSU leads the season series, 2-1 The Jackrabbits hold a 132-87 advantage in the all-time series SDSU improved to 7-3 in games at Erv Huether Field this season Bellows is a combined 6-for-9 with five RBIs in three games this week Grawe turned his third consecutive multi-hit game and also is batting .667 (8-for-12) with three RBIs and seven runs scored this week Benes is batting .522 (12-for-22) in home games this season Luskey upped his league-leading season RBI total to 51 and has driven in 82 runs in 82 career games Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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20-04-2025
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Jacks fall in series finale at St. Thomas
ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Thomas pitchers Riane Ritter and Max Skilbeck combined for 10 strikeouts and limited South Dakota State to two hits as the league-leading Tommies claimed the decisive game of a three-game Summit League baseball series with a 5-1 victory Saturday afternoon at Koch Diamond. St. Thomas ran its overall record to 19-14 overall and 13-4 in The Summit League. The Jackrabbits dropped to 8-26 overall and 5-11 in league play. The Tommies got all the offense they would need in the first two innings. UST got on the board with an unearned run in the bottom of the first inning as Ben Vujovich singled and stole both second and third base, scoring on an errant throw on his steal of third. UST loaded the bases the next inning on a hit, walk and hit batter to set up Max Moris, who notched a two-out single to center field to score both Tanner Recchio and Vujovich. Riane Ritter carried a shutout into the sixth inning, when SDSU tallied its lone run on a home run to left by Luke Luskey. It was Luskey's second home run of the series and league-leading 12th round-tripper of the season. The Jackrabbits' burst of momentum was short-lived, however, as St. Thomas responded with single runs in both the home half of the sixth and seventh innings. Zan Von Schlegell plated the sixth-inning run with a sacrifice fly and Matthew Maulik added a run-scoring single in the seventh after Vujovich created more havoc on the bases. Vujovich tallied two hits, stole three bases and scored three runs while Brigs Richartz led the Tommies' 10-hit effort with a 3-for-4 day at the Sintek posted the only other Jackrabbit hit, a single in the third inning. Ritter worked seven innings en route to the victory, striking out five and walking one. Skilbeck finished on the mound for the Tommies with five strikeouts in two hitless and scoreless frames. For SDSU, starter Owen Bishop was assessed the loss after walking three and surrendering three runs in only 1 1/3 innings. He struck out two and walked three. Reece Arbogast finished the second inning before giving way to Jake Goble, who pitched the final six frames. Goble struck out four and did not walk a batter in his longest outing of the season UP NEXTThe Jackrabbits return home for a 3 p.m. game Tuesday afternoon against Northwestern (Iowa) at Erv Huether Field. NOTES St. Thomas claimed the regular season series, 4-2 The Jackrabbits lead the all-time series, 14-6 Luskey's home run was the 20th of his career in 79 games over two seasons Sintek has hit safely in 28 of the 33 games he has played this season Goble has not walked a batter in any of his last four outings, covering 18 2/3 innings Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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19-04-2025
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SDSU blanks Tommies to tie series
ST. PAUL, Minn. (SDSU) — Caleb Duerr and Dylan Driessen combined to pitch a shutout and Luke Luskey supplied the offense as South Dakota State evened its Summit League baseball series with a 3-0 victory over St. Thomas Friday afternoon at Koch Diamond. The Jackrabbits improved to 8-25 overall 5-10 in league play. St. Thomas fell to 18-14 overall and 12-4 in The Summit League. Luskey gave the Jackrabbits the early lead by lining a two-run home run to left field in the top of the first inning. Carter Sintek also scored on Luskey's league-leading 11th round-tripper after leading off the game by reaching on an error. The Jackrabbits added what would turn out to be the final run of the game in the third inning. Nicholas Werk opened the inning with an infield single and advanced to third base two batters later on a single to center field by Nolan Grawe. That set the table for Luskey, who lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that was deep enough to score Werk. A freshman from West Fargo, North Dakota, Duerr allowed at least one base runner in every inning as he worked into the seventh inning, but made the pitches when he most needed to in posting his third win of the season. The right-hander struck out three, walked one and hit one batter before exiting with runners at the corners and two outs in the bottom of the seventh. Driessen entered and induced a groundout to third base to end the St. Thomas threat in the seventh, then tossed two more hitless innings to lock down his third save of the season. He struck out three and allowed one hit. Tanner Recchio and Brigs Richartz each tallied two of St. Thomas' seven hits. The Jackrabbits finished with only four hits in the contest. St. Thomas starter Walker Retz suffered his first loss of the season despite striking out nine and walking only one in 6 2/3 innings. Kody Dalen added five K's in 2 1/3 innings to finish up for the Tommies. UP NEXTThe decisive game of the three-game series is set for 1 p.m. Saturday. NOTES SDSU leads the all-time series, 14-5, although St. Thomas leads the season series, 3-2 The Jackrabbits recorded their first shutout since a 1-0 victory over St. Thomas on March 22, 2024, in a game played in Omaha, Nebraska Two of Duerr's three wins have come against the Tommies Driessen has struck out a team-high 34 batters in 25 innings of work this season Luskey has 12 multi-RBI games this season as he upped his team-leading total to 40 Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
