by Nathan Daggett / @daggett_nathan / sports@kvsc.org

After dropping 2 of 3 games against Northern State over the weekend #14 St. Cloud State

(34-9, 22-7 NSIC) added a pair of wins against U-Mary (16-29, 12-20 NSIC) on Wednesday to get back on track. 

SCSU defeated UM 1-0 in a pitcher’s dual in the first game of the double header.  Second baseman, Aaron Hammann hit a RBI sacrifice fly to bring in Caeden Harris for the only run of the game.

Senior pitcher Dominic Austing threw a complete game shutout while striking out 7 and only allowing 2 hits.  Austing would remain undefeated moving to 7-0.  U-Mary’s pitcher Jonathan Draheim would also only allow 2 hits, but give up the 1 lone run in the loss. 

In the second game of the double header, St. Cloud State would once again rely on their pitching in the victory over UM, 4-0.

The Huskies would jump on U-Mary pitcher Daniel Turner early in the 1^st inning, scoring 2 runs thanks to Aaron Hammann hitting an RBI single.  Catcher, Toran Shahidi hit an RBI sacrifice fly to allow Mitch Mallek to come in and score to give SCSU an 3-0 lead.  Shahidi would double later in the 7^th inning to bring in another run to add to the Huskies lead, 4-0.

That would be enough for lefty pitcher, Matthew Osterberg as the Sophomore would pitch 6 strong innings, only allowing 2 hits and striking out 7.  Matt Butler would close it out in the 9^th inning to give SCSU the 4-0 victory.  Matthew Osterberg would improve to 5-1 on the season and St. Cloud State would move to 36-9, 24-7 NSIC.

St. Cloud State will travel to face Southwest Minnesota State (10-25, 9-21 NSIC) for a 3-game series starting on Friday at 1:30 PM.  All the games from this series can heard live on the KVSC Sports Stream.