Bison vs St. Thomas

[Elvis was a Bison]

Another schedule change has the Bison playing the Tommies in a double-header on Friday and a single game on Saturday due to the weather forecast for Sunday. Here is the preview from the Tommies wesite:

"The Tommies and Bison, originally scheduled to play Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will now play a doubleheader starting at 12 p.m. Friday followed by the series finale at 1 p.m. Saturday, weather permitting. Forecasted rain forced the schedule change. St. Thomas opens its home schedule with a three-game series against North Dakota State. The Tommies and Bison meet for the only series this season.
• The Bison are led by Peter Brookshaw and Cadyn Schwabe, who are the lone NDSU players to hold a batting average above .300. Brookshaw leads the squad with a .315 batting average, a .615 slugging percentage, 41 hits, 27 runs, 12 doubles and nine home runs. Schwabe paces the team with a .434 on-base percentage, 27 runs, 14 stolen bases and two triples.
• The pitching staff is led by Parker Puetz who holds a 3.46 ERA in 26.0 innings. Cade Feeney (3-3) has won three straight starts for the Bison and was named the Summit League Peak Pitcher of the Week after throwing five strikeouts over 6.0 innings during an 8-1 upset over No. 23 Texas Tech. Feeney is 47th in the country with a 5.22 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
• North Dakota State dropped 15 of its first 16 games of the season before winning six of a 10-game stretch. NDSU most recently stole a series-opening win from No. 23 Texas Tech, 8-1, before dropping the final two games, 8-5 and 8-3. NDSU most recently fell at Minnesota, 12-9, on Tuesday, April 11."

[Elvis was a Bison]

Game 1 of the 3-game series had every Bison starter with at least 1 hit and Cade Feeney dominating the Tommies on the mound with his first complete game of the season.

NDSU (9-23) (5-2): 13 runs on 14 hits, with no errors and 5 LOB
St. Thomas (4-19) (2-5): 3 runs on 7 hits, with 2 errors and 2 LOB

Batteries:

NDSU: Cade Feeney and Will Busch
St. Thomas: Kolby Gartner, Tucker Huhn (7), Joe Voss (7) and Charlie Bartholomew

WP: Cade Feeney (4-3)
LP: Kolby Gartner (1-4)

Homeruns: NDSU - Drew Sacket (8) 3-run to left field in the 2nd inning

NDSU: Cadyn Schwabe 4-5, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI. Peter Brookshaw 2-4, 2B, 3B. James Dunlap 2-5, 4 RBI. Druw Sackett HR, 3 RBI. Will Busch 2B, Terrell Huggins 1 RBI.
St. Thomas: Charlie Bartholomew 3-3 1 RBI. Ben Vujovich 2-3, 3B, 1 RBI. Tanner Marsh 3B, Brigs Richartz 2B. Max Morris 1 RBI.

Game 2 of the double-header on deck.

[Elvis was a Bison]

Game 2 of the 3-game series at Koch Diamond in St. Paul had the Bison jump on the Tommies starter Walker Retz for 3 runs in the first and never look back as they score 6 more in the second (all needed to overcome some sloppy play in the field) and win this one by the score of 10-4.

NDSU (10-23) (6-2): 10 runs on 13 hits, with 5 errors and 6 LOB
St. Thomas (4-20) (2-6): 4 runs on 10 hits, with 4 errors and 8 LOB

Batteries:

NDSU: Tristan Roehrich, Joey Danielson (7) and Stephen Lund
St. Thomas: Walker Retz, Nolan Kemp (7), Jacob Mrosko (9) and Max Moris, Charlie Bartholomew (8)

WP: Tristan Roehrich (3-5)
LP: Walker Retz (0-3)
Save: Joey Danielson (1)

Homeruns: NDSU - Terrell Huggins (8) 2-run to left in the 1st inning. Stephen Lund (5) 2-run to right center in the 2nd inning.

NDSU: Terrell Huggins 2-5, 2B, HR, 3 RBI. Stephen Lund HR, 2 RBI. James Dunlap 2-5, 2B, 3 RBI. Cadyn Schwabe 2-4, 1 RBI. Peter Brookshaw 2-5, 2B. Jack Steil 1 RBI.
St. Thomas - Max Moris 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI. Joe Vos 2-3. 2B, 1 RBI. Parker Mathieson 2-4. Tanner Marsh 1 RBI.

Join the Bison in St. Paul tomorrow as they face the Tommies in game 3 of the series at Koch Diamond beginning at 1:00 PM CDT (weather permitting). Oh, and bring your brooms!!

[Elvis was a Bison]

Game 3 had the Tommies score 1 in the bottom of the 2nd inning and take a lead over the Bison for the first time in this series. They made that 1 run lead stand up until a Jack Steil single drove in James Dunlap with the tying run with one out in the top of the 9th. But a single, a sac bunt, a walk and an rbi single give the Tommies a run in the bottom half of the inning and the home team wins this one in a walk off by the score of 2-1.

NDSU (10-24) (6-3): 1 run on 4 hits, with no errors and 6 LOB
St. Thomas (5-20) (3-6): 2 runs on 7 hits, with 1 error and 6 LOB

Batteries:

NDSU: Parker Puetz, Skyler Riedinger (7) and Will Busch
St. Thomas: Evan Esch, Duke Coborn (8) and Charlie Bartholomew

WP: Duke Coborn (3-2)
LP: Skyler Riedinger (0-3)

Homeruns: None

NDSU: Jack Steil 1 RBI. Will Busch 2B
St. Thomas - Joe Roder. 2-4, 2 runs scored. Ben Vujovich 2B, 1RBI. Sam Kulesa 1RBI.

Mayville State set to visit the Bison on April 18th for the home opener.

[El_Chapo]

a low point in program history...

Junior Sam Kulesa played hero on a rainy Saturday afternoon as his single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave St. Thomas Baseball a 2-1 walk-off win to cap the series against North Dakota State.

#RollToms #SummitBSB

[Elvis was a Bison]

a low point in program history...

I'd have to question this bold statement. For almost 20 years we've been told that the low point in Bison Baseball history was that one time when this fellow from Hoople, MN. played for the Bison, but he didn't. Then he used the washer in his dorm and his shirt turned red, but it didn't. Then he woke up one morning after sleeping at a certain hotel with all the wisdom in the world concerning NDSU athletics and claimed to be an expert, but he wasn't. March is over, and that's the truth...