GREELEY, Colo. - Northern Colorado had a 14-run second inning as the Bears defeated South Dakota State 24-8 in the rubber game of a three-game baseball series at Jackson Field Sunday afternoon.
The Bears sent 17 batters to the plate as they had nine hits, two walks, two hit batters and SDSU contributed three errors (five of the runs were unearned) in the second inning. They followed that with six more in the third for an early 20-5 lead.
UNC finished with 20 hits including five home runs off five SDSU pitchers.
SDSU didnt have a bad day offensively. The Jacks had 12 hits including a pair of home runs by Cal Lewis, who had two run homers in the third and fourth innings.
Jake Rogers and Chris Iverson had three hits each. Iverson was 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
SDSU is now 11-16 overall while UNC is 11-19. The Jacks host Dakota Wesleyan at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Bob Shelden Field, then face the University of Minnesota in Sioux Falls on Wednesday (6:30 p.m., Sioux Falls Stadium).
South Dakota State .... 11 3 200 100 - 8 12 5
Northern Colorado ..... 0(14)6 003 10x - 24 20 3
Danny Klous, Dalton Decker (2),
Jake Angier (4), Isaac Johnson (7), Caleb Thielbar (8) and Kyle Sytsma, Zach Miller (7); Seth Gilleland, Matt Collins (7), Bobby Brunswick (8), Brennan Garr (9) and John Ray. WP - Gilleland (2-5), LP - Klous (1-5), Sv-None. HR - SDSU Lewis 2 (4), UNC Zach Brockman 2 (2), Zach Harris (7), John Ray (2), Nate Saylor (1).