Baseball Falls To Minnesota State 5-1

OVERVIEW – MINNESOTA STATE

SCORES: Minnesota State Mavericks 5, Northwood Timberwolves 1

RECORDS: Northwood 9-6, Minnesota State 3-2

LOCATION: Auburndale, Fla.

RECAP: Northwood baseball dropped a 5-1 contest to Minnesota State Sunday night (March 6).

GAME HIGHLIGHTS (NINE INNINGS)

• Minnesota State picked up an unearned run in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0.
• Northwood responded right away in the bottom of the first with an RBI single from Matt Magno that scored Myles Beale to make the score 1-1.
• The score remained 1-1 until the fifth inning when the Mavericks put together the key rally of the game, bringing home three runs to take a 4-1 lead.
• MSU then added one in the eighth to make the score 5-1, which proved to be the final score.

GAME STATS

• Runs/Hits/Errors – Northwood: 1/4/3, Minnesota State: 5/13/0
• Runners Left on Base – Northwood: 5, Minnesota State: 13
• Winning Pitcher – Brendan Knoll (1-0): 9 IP, 4 H, R, 2 BB, 8 K
• Losing Pitcher – Benji Alderson (0-1): IP, 4 H, 3 R (2 ER), BB, 2 K

TOP NU PERFORMERS

• Carson Longstreth: 4 IP, 3 H, R (0 ER), BB, 7 K
• Magno: 1B, RBI
• Beale: 2B, R
• Longstreth: 2B, RBI

UP NEXT

• Northwood travels to Florida Tech Monday (March 7) for one nine inning game. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.