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Friday, February 21
Stockton, Calif.
6 p.m. PT/8 p.m. CT
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Photo by: SDSU Sports Information
Jacks crack the win column at Pacific
2/21/2020 11:36:00 PM | Baseball
STOCKTON, Calif. – Ryan McDonald doubled in the go-ahead run in the top of the sixth inning and South Dakota State relievers Brett Mogen and Bret Barnett combined for four shutout innings for a Jackrabbit squad that picked up its first win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Pacific Friday night at Klein Family Field.
SDSU improved to 1-3, while the Tigers dropped to 3-2.
Trailing 1-0, the Jackrabbits scored both of their runs in the sixth. Landon Badger started the rally by drawing a leadoff walk. He later advanced to second on an error and took third on a single to center field by Braeden Brown that forced a pitching change. Badger scored the tying run on a groundout off the bat of Gus Steiger before McDonald stepped to the plate and launched a double to left-center field that brought home Brown.
SDSU's two other hits in the game were both by Luke Ira -- a bunt single in the fifth inning and a double in the ninth.
Pacific's lone run of the game was of the unearned variety in the bottom of the fourth. Ben Nemivant and Luke Price each drew two-out walks against SDSU starter Adam Mazur before each moved up a base on a wild pitch. Nemivant later scored on a passed ball.
A freshman from Woodbury, Minnesota, Mazur worked the first five innings for the Jackrabbits and earned his first collegiate victory after working around five walks and two hits while striking out two.
Mogen took over on the mound for SDSU in the sixth and recorded three shutout innings. The senior from Dell Rapids fanned three batters and scattered two hits.
Barnett picked up his first save of the season after pitching a scoreless ninth inning. The junior left-hander allowed a leadoff walk, but retired the next three hitters in order, including recording the final out via a strikeout.
Pacific stranded 10 runners in the game. Charles Middleton notched two of the Tigers' four hits.
Lucas Sweany took the loss for Pacific. He struck out four and walked two in five-plus innings.
UP NEXT
Game 2 of the series is scheduled for 1 p.m. Pacific Time (3 p.m. Central) on Saturday.
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SDSU improved to 1-3, while the Tigers dropped to 3-2.
Trailing 1-0, the Jackrabbits scored both of their runs in the sixth. Landon Badger started the rally by drawing a leadoff walk. He later advanced to second on an error and took third on a single to center field by Braeden Brown that forced a pitching change. Badger scored the tying run on a groundout off the bat of Gus Steiger before McDonald stepped to the plate and launched a double to left-center field that brought home Brown.
SDSU's two other hits in the game were both by Luke Ira -- a bunt single in the fifth inning and a double in the ninth.
Pacific's lone run of the game was of the unearned variety in the bottom of the fourth. Ben Nemivant and Luke Price each drew two-out walks against SDSU starter Adam Mazur before each moved up a base on a wild pitch. Nemivant later scored on a passed ball.
A freshman from Woodbury, Minnesota, Mazur worked the first five innings for the Jackrabbits and earned his first collegiate victory after working around five walks and two hits while striking out two.
Mogen took over on the mound for SDSU in the sixth and recorded three shutout innings. The senior from Dell Rapids fanned three batters and scattered two hits.
Barnett picked up his first save of the season after pitching a scoreless ninth inning. The junior left-hander allowed a leadoff walk, but retired the next three hitters in order, including recording the final out via a strikeout.
Pacific stranded 10 runners in the game. Charles Middleton notched two of the Tigers' four hits.
Lucas Sweany took the loss for Pacific. He struck out four and walked two in five-plus innings.
UP NEXT
Game 2 of the series is scheduled for 1 p.m. Pacific Time (3 p.m. Central) on Saturday.
NOTES
- The all-time series between SDSU and Pacific is tied at a game apiece
- Ira has reached base safely in all four games this season and eight in a row dating back to 2019
- Both Brown and Ira have hit safely in the last three games
- McDonald leads the team with three runs batted in
- Mogen has pitched seven scoreless innings in two appearances this season and now has tossed 13 1/3 scoreless innings in a row over his last six appearances since late in the 2019 season
- Barnett's save was the eighth of his career
- The Jackrabbits have played error-free baseball in three of four games this season
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mazur, Adam (1-1)
L: SWEANY,L (1-1)
S: Barnett, Bret (1)
Batting:
2B: McDonald, Ryan 1 ; Ira, Luke 1
RBI: Steiger, Gus 1 ; McDonald, Ryan 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Brown, Braeden 1 ; Badger, Landon 1
Batting:
SH: MON, Grant 1
Base Running:
RUNS: NEMIVANT, Ben 1
HBP: HAYES, Carter 1
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