JACKS, NSU SPLIT DOUBLEHEADER, SERIES

Saturday, March 19

Natchitoches, La.

11 a.m.

South Dakota State University

6-11

Northwestern State

8-11

South Dakota State

Northwestern State

Photo by: SDSU Sports Information

3/19/2022 6:22:00 PM | Baseball

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NATCHITOCHES, La. — South Dakota State and Northwestern State wrapped up their four-game weekend set Saturday by splitting a doubleheader that also resulted in a split of the teams' four-game nonconference series.

The Jackrabbits ended the day with a 6-12 overall record, while NSU moved to 9-11 on the season.

Game 1: South Dakota State 4, Northwestern State 2
South Dakota State reliever Bret Barnett pitched out of a huge jam in the bottom of the fifth and the Jackrabbit offense came up with some clutch extra-base hits to win the opening game of the day, 4-2.

Barnett replaced starter Cody Carlson with no outs and the bases loaded, and with the Jackrabbits nursing a 2-1 lead. The senior left-hander proceeded to strike out the top three batters in the NSU lineup — all swinging — to end the threat.

SDSU upped its lead to 4-1 in the top of the seventh inning as Luke Ira lined a double down the left-field line that scored both Henry George and Jordan Sagedahl.

Those insurance runs would loom large as the Demons put together a rally in their final at-bat of the seven-inning game, scoring a run on a wild pitch on a strikeout that would have been the final out of the game. Barnett did strike out the next batter with the tying run on base for his sixth strikeout of the game to end the contest.

Northwestern State scored the first run of the game on a solo home run by Cameron Parikh with two outs in the bottom of the third inning. Parikh was 3-for-4 for the Demons, who out-hit SDSU, 7-5.

The Jackrabbits grabbed the lead in the top of the fifth with a pair of runs. Thatcher Kozal led off the frame with a walk and scored on Owen Bishop's double to the left-center gap. Bishop later scored the go-ahead run on a squeeze bunt by freshman second baseman Adam Benes.

Game 2: Northwestern State 13, South Dakota State 9
The Demons scored nine runs in the bottom of the first inning and held off a late comeback attempt by SDSU to salvage the split.

NSU sent 14 men to the plate in the frame against Jackrabbit pitchers Drew Beazley and Jake Goble, starting with back-to-back walks to Parikh and Gray Rowlett to open the game. The Demons collected five hits in the inning, including a two-run single by Larson Fontenot and a three-run double by Daunte Stuart.

Ryan McDonald put the Jackrabbits on the board with a solo home run in the second, but Stuart posted his fourth and fifth RBIs of the game with a two-run shot of his own in the bottom of the third inning.

SDSU's Owen Bishop and Northwestern State's Jake Haze traded two-run doubles in each half of the fourth inning to push the score to 13-3.

The Jackrabbits received several contributions off their bench to score six times in their final at-bat in the top of the seventh. Avery Mellman, Bishop, Thatcher Kozal and Jamie Berg all drove in runs with singles, while other runs scored on an error and a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch to Dagen Schramm.

SDSU finished with an 11-9 edge in hits as Bishop completed his best day at the plate as a Jackrabbit by going 3-for-4 with three runs batted in. McDonald was 2-for-2 and scored twice.

NSU starter Drayton Brown struck out eight and walked two over five innings to earn the win.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits are scheduled to play their final pre-conference game Wednesday at Nebraska. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m. at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park in Lincoln, Nebraska.

NOTES

The all-time series between South Dakota State and Northwestern State is tied at two games apiece
McDonald extended his hitting streak to six games, a span in which he has five multi-hit games and is batting 14-for-24 (.583 batting average) with three doubles, a triple, three home runs and 13 runs batted in
Barnett's save was the third of his career and 14^th of his career, tying him with Gary Olechoski (14 saves from 2003-06) for third place on the all-time SDSU charts
Barnett has 19 strikeouts in 11 innings pitched this season
Barnett made his 65^th career appearance to move into a tie for 10^th place on the Jackrabbit career charts with ?Isaac Johnson (2006-09), Austin Busse (2009-12) and Talon Jumper (2012-15)
Derek Hackman has reached base safely in 17 of the Jackrabbits' 18 games this season
Hackman moved into eighth place in career putouts at SDSU with 818, passing Ryan Krogman (814 from 1991-94)
Kozal has reached base in eight consecutive games

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Brown, Drayton (2-2)

L: Beazley, Drew (0-2)

S: Banes, Josh (1)

South Dakota State

Batting:

2B: Bishop, Owen 1

HR: McDonald, Ryan 1

RBI: Mellman, Avery 1 ; McDonald, Ryan 1 ; Schramm, Dagen 1 ; Bishop, Owen 3 ; Kozal, Thatcher 1 ; Berg, Jamie 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Cox, Colton 1 ; Mellman, Avery 1 ; Hackman, Derek 2 ; McDonald, Ryan 2 ; Schramm, Dagen 1 ; Bishop, Owen 1 ; Sagedahl, Jordan 1

HBP: Schramm, Dagen 1

Northwestern State

Batting:

2B: Stuart, Daunte 1 ; Haze, Jake 1

HR: Stuart, Daunte 1

RBI: Parikh, Cameron 1 ; Stuart, Daunte 5 ; Willis, Bo 1 ; Holmes, Bryce 1 ; Fontenot, Larson 2 ; Colaianni, Gabe 1 ; Haze, Jake 2

SF: Holmes, Bryce 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Parikh, Cameron 2 ; Rowlett, Gray 2 ; Stuart, Daunte 2 ; Willis, Bo 1 ; Elkins, Jeffrey 1 ; Fontenot, Larson 2 ; Colaianni, Gabe 2 ; Haze, Jake 1