Augustana’s bats were on fire Friday as they blew up for a doubleheader sweep over Wayne State, winning 19-3 and 18-6 in action Friday at Ronken field in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Friday’s games, which were moved from Wayne due to bad weather, were one-sided affairs as the Viking bats teed off on Wayne State pitching in both games.
In the opener, Augustana cranked out 22 hits in the game and got things rolling with a six-run first inning off of losing pitcher Bobby St. Pierre.
Wayne State scored its three runs in the third inning. Cody Jenkins scored Jackson Petersen with an RBI single, David Janes had an RBI single to score Tanner Simons, and Kyle Thompson brought Jenkins home with a single to highlight a five-hit inning.
Petersen was 2-for-2 to lead Wayne State’s 10-hit effort, while Janes and Thompson each went 2-for-3. St. Pierre gave up eight runs in two innings to take the loss.
In the nightcap, Wayne State scored five runs in the first inning, but Augustana came back to finish off the Friday sweep.
Wayne State trailed 2-0 going to the botom of the first, but scored five runs off five hits, including a Janes RBI double, a two-run single by Tanner Simons, an RBI double by Bodie Cooper and an RBI single by Tandon Dorn to give the Wildcats a 5-2 lead.
David Krier scored on a wild pitch in the second to make it 6-2, but the Vikings came back with three runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to take control and pull away with the win.
Cooper went 3-for-4 to lead an eight-hit attack, while Simons had two hits and two RBI’s. Keenan Breen took the loss.
Wayne State is scheduled to host Augustana at 1:30 p.m. in Wayne on Saturday for Senior Day at the Pete Chapman Baseball Complex.
