JACKRABBITS SWEEP DOUBLEHEADER, SERIES

Sunday, April 3

St. Paul, Minn.

10:30 a.m.

South Dakota State University

8-15, 2-3

St. Thomas

4-16, 1-4

Jackrabbits

St. Thomas

Photo by: Dennis Hubbard

4/3/2022 6:06:00 PM | Baseball

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — South Dakota State received extended starts from Cody Carlson and Owen Bishop, and mustered enough offense to complete both a doubleheader and series sweep of Summit League baseball rival St. Thomas Sunday at Koch Diamond.

With the 2-1 and 6-1 victories, the Jackrabbits claimed all three games of the weekend set to improve to 9-15 overall and 3-3 in league play. St. Thomas dropped to 4-17 overall and 1-5 in their first season of Summit League play.

Game 1: SDSU 2, St. Thomas 1
Jordan Sagedahl started the scoring with a home run in the third inning and Carlson pitched into the seventh inning before giving way to a dominant Jackrabbit bullpen.

Sagedahl's first home run of the season came with one out in the top of the third inning as the Jackrabbits broke through against Tommie starter Evan Esch.

SDSU added a run in the fifth inning as Reece Anderson walked, advanced to third on a single by Luke Ira and scored on an errant throw as Ira stole second later in the inning.

Carlson made that lead stand up despite allowing an unearned run in the home half of the fifth. Avery Lehman led off the frame with a base hit and later scored on the second of two Jackrabbit errors in the inning.

A left-hander from Rapid City, Carlson earned his team-leading fourth win of the season after striking out four, walking one and surrendering four hits.

Alex Clemons struck out both batters he faced to end the UST seventh inning after replacing Carlson with the tying run on second. Bret Barnett closed out the victory with two perfect innings, including notching three strikeouts, for his fourth save of the year.

Nic Nelson led the Jackrabbits' seven-hit effort with a pair of hits.

Game 2: SDSU 6, St. Thomas 0
The Jackrabbits hit a season-high three home runs in support of Bishop, who took a shutout into the ninth inning.

Derek Hackman put SDSU on the board with a two-run home run to left field in the top of the fourth and Dawson Parry followed three batters later with a solo shot for a 3-0 lead. It was the second home run of the season for both Jackrabbit players.

Parry added a run-scoring single in the eighth inning, while Luke Ira capped the scoring for SDSU with his team-leading sixth home run of the season, a two-run blast that pushed the Jackrabbit lead to 6-0.

Bishop retired 12 batters in a row in a span between the fourth and eighth innings before tiring in the ninth. After retiring the leadoff batter in the ninth, Bishop was removed in favor of Ryan Bourassa after allowing back-to-back singles to Sam Kulesa and K. Halvorson. Both runners moved up a base on a balk before Charlie Bartholomew broke up the shutout bid with a single to left field that scored Kulesa.

Bourassa then retired the next two St. Thomas batters to secure the victory.

Bishop struck out six and walked only one in the longest outing of his career.

Parry, Sagedahl and Ryan McDonald each posted two of the Jackrabbits' nine hits in the contest.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits are scheduled to play their home opener Tuesday against Dakota Wesleyan. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. at Erv Huether Field.

NOTES

The Jackrabbits have won all three meetings against St. Thomas
SDSU recorded its first doubleheader sweep since Feb. 27, 2021, at Northern Colorado
The Jackrabbits swept a Summit League series for the first time since winning all three games in a home series versus Fort Wayne May 3-5, 2019
McDonald has reached base safely in 13 consecutive games
Ira extended his hitting streak to six games
SDSU has homered in seven consecutive games, marking the program's longest home run streak since a seven-game stretch in 2010 (April 28-May 8)
Barnett made his 67^th career appearance, breaking a tie with Shane Kraemer (66 appearances from 2010-13) and Andrew Clemen (66 appearances from 2013-16) to take over sole possession of sixth place on the SDSU career charts
Barnett also moved into sole possession of third place in career saves by a Jackrabbit with 15, breaking a tie with Gary Olechoski (14 saves from 2003-06)
Bishop's 8 1/3 innings marked the longest outing by a Jackrabbit starter since Tyler Olmstead tossed a complete-game shutout on May 3, 2019, versus Fort Wayne
SDSU allowed only one earned run and a total of five runs in the three-game series