The Dordt Defender baseball team made it back to back sweeps in doubleheaders against Northwestern with a pair of wins by 2-0 and 10-4 margins at Open Space Park in Sioux Center.Â
GAME 1
Dordt got a run in the first inning with
Nolan Christianson and
Jason Carrig each getting doubles as Carrig knocked in the run and Christianson figured into the second run, a ground out that produced a run batted in during the sixth inning as Dordt got insurance for their cushion.
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THE NUMBERS
- Dordt had a 6-3 hits advantage as Logan De Vries and Drew Oreskes each had two hits.
- Oreskes had a single and a double. Oreske's double was the third for Dordt to go with Christianson's and Carrig's two-baggers in the first inning.
- Gyeongju Kim earned his seventh win of the season with the shutout as he struck out nine and didn't walk a batter while allowing three hits.
- Kim struck out the side to end the game and established a new single-season strikeout record with his second straight 100+ strikeout season.
GAME 2
Logan Harris started the scoring with a solo homerun in the first inning and Northwestern got the equalizer in the fourth.
Dordt's
Juan Sanchez answered with a homerun in the fourth inning and Kade Davis singled in a run for a 3-1 lead.
In the fifth Harris scored on a wild pitch and an error by Northwestern, one of six defensive miscues the visitors had, led to two more runs. Leading 6-1,
Juan Sanchez doubled in two more runs and Dordt had an 8-1 lead going to the seventh.
Northwestern got one run in the seventh and then two in the eighth and had two runners on but a sliding catch by
Anthony Rodriguez ended the inning and Dordt got the two runs back with two in the eight before securing the 10-4 win.
THE NUMBERS
- Dordt was outhit 11-10 with Harris going 3-5 with three runs scored.
- Juan Sanchez was 2-5 with three runs batted in and five other players had one hit each.
- Ethan Hoogesteger scored two runs.
- Nick Yeager pitched five innings and struck out seven with one walk and one unearned run allowed.
- Derek LaBounty pitched two innings and gave up one run on three hits and Matthew Ramstead and Chaz Gothard each pitched an inning and had two strikeouts each.
- Dordt ends the season with a 20-26 record and an 8-20 mark in league play. Northwestern is 19-29 overall and 12-16 in the GPAC.