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Tommies use seven-run seventh to repeat as MIAC Tournament champions
Tournament statistics page
Game 1: Concordia 6, St. Olaf 4 Box score
Game 2: St. Thomas, 10, St. Mary’s 2 Box score
Game 3: St. Thomas 13, Concordia 3 Box score
Game 4: St. Olaf 4, St. Mary’s 3 Box score [St. Mary’s eliminated]
Game 5: St. Olaf 8, Concordia 3Box score [Concordia eliminated]
Game 6: St. Thomas 9, St. Olaf 2 Box score [St. Thomas wins tournament title]
Game 6 , St. Thomas 9, St. Olaf 2: The Tommies used a seven-run seventh to beat St. Olaf, 9-2, securing their seventh straight NCAA Tournament bid. Sean Lindstrom (4-0) scattered nine hits and allowed only two runs off a Steve Ryan two-run homer in the second. Lindstrom fanned six, earning tournament most valuable player honors. Tom Carroll was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and Matt Buzzell went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Ryan was 3 for 4 with a homer, a double and two RBIs for St. Olaf.
St. Thomas, which has finished second in the nation for the past two seasons, receives the MIAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. St. Olaf, meanwhile, must await word from the NCAA Baseball Committee on whether or not it will get one of the seven at-large berths into the field of 48. The announcement of pairings is expected tomorrow evening. Box score
Game 5 - St. Olaf 8, Concordia-Moorhead 3: The Oles (29-8) pounded out 14 hits and cruised to victory, 8-3. Dan LeManna was 4 for 4 with four RBIs and Brian Sprout was 3 for 5 with three runs scored. Jim Eckstein (4-0) picked up the win in relief for the Oles, tossing four innings of three-hit ball, fanning three and walking one. Derek Dormanen (3-3) took the loss for the Cobbers, pitching six innings and allowing 11 hits and six runs, five earned.
The Cobbers took an early 1-0 lead on Dormanen's RBI single up the middle. The Oles answered with three runs in the third, two off an infield single by Brad Baglien and another on a Cobber error. The Oles added one in the fourth on LeManna's double, but a Isaac Hjermstad lead-off homer and Dormanen RBI single made it 4-3 after four innings. Concordia would not score the rest of the game, however, and St. Olaf posted two in the sixth on a Casey Coulson sacrifice fly and a LeManna RBI single. St. Olaf tacked on two in the eighth on LeManna's two-run single. Concordia is eliminated from the tournament , and St. Olaf advances to face St. Thomas at 4 p.m. Check back here throughout the game for live updates, inning-by-inning. Box score
All-Tournament team
Tony Cicalello, St. Mary's
Derek Dormanen, Concordia
Justin Berg, Concordia
Dan LeManna, St. Olaf
Brian Sprout, St. Olaf
Casey Coulson, St. Olaf
Steve Ryan, St. Olaf
Sean Lindstrom, St. Thomas
Tom Carroll, St. Thomas
Jake Mauer, St. Thomas
Matt Buzzell, St. Thomas
Tournament MVP: Sean Lindstrom, St. Thomas
St. Thomas in driver's seat after day one of MIAC Tournament
The University of St. Thomas moved one step closer to defending its MIAC Tournament title and earning the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with a pair of wins in the 2001 MIAC Baseball Tournament today. The Tommies beat St. Mary’s, 10-2, and Concordia-Moorhead, 13-3. The Cobbers upset regular-season champ St. Olaf in the opener, 6-4, but the Oles remained alive with a 4-3 come-from-behind win over St. Mary’s, eliminating the Cardinals.
Game 1 - Concordia 6, St. Olaf 4: Chad Felstul and Jeremy Morgenroth each homered in the eighth as Concordia rallied from a 3-1 deficit to beat top-seeded St. Olaf, 6-4, in the opening game of the MIAC Tournament. Felstul's two-run homer gave the Cobbers a 4-3 advantage, and Morgenroth's two-run blast gave the fourth-seeded Cobbers some insurance runs. Box score
Game 2 – St. Thomas 10, St. Mary’s 2: Matt Buzzell and Tony Wolverton picked up three hits each as the Tommies rapped out 15 hits en route to a 10-2 win. Starter Bryan Edstrom scattered nine hits over six innings of work, and reliever Mike Ramthun tossed three innings of scoreless ball. Kyle Olson was 1 for 4 with three RBIs for UST. Tony Cicalello was 4 for 4 for the Cardinals, who left 12 runner on base and grounded into two double plays. Eric Williamson (3-1) took the loss, allowing five runs over seven innings of work. Box score
Game 3 – St. Thomas 13, Concordia 3: Tom Carroll’s two-run homer in the first and Mark Fenstad’s two-run blast in the second staked St. Thomas to an early 4-0 lead, as the Tommies cruised to a 13-3 triumph. Luke Sather crushed a solo homer in the fourth over the scoreboard in left field, and the Tommies pushed across five run in the fifth, all unearned, as the Cobbers committed three errors in the frame. Ten different Tommies recorded hits, paced by Jake Mauer’s 3 for 5 day with two runs scored. Brian Whinnery (3-4) picked up the win, lasting seven innings and giving up five hits and three runs, only one earned, and fanning 12. Bryan Marudas (3-3) took the loss, as he worked four and one-third innings and allowed seven runs, five earned. Box score
Game 4 – St. Olaf 4, St. Mary’s 3: The regular-season champion Oles remained alive with a 4-3 come-from-behind win over St. Mary’s. The Cardinals (18-8) took and early 3-0 lead as Greg Setterlund knocked home a run with a single in the third and Rob Kimlinger’s RBI double and Matt Domarus’s sacrifice fly netted two more run in the fourth. The Oles (28-8) countered with RBI singles by Casey Coulson and Dan LeManna in the sixth, and tied the game in the seventh on Joe Pavelko’s lead-off homer. They won the game in the bottom of the ninth when Pavelko walked to lead off the inning and eventually scored on Coulson’s sacrifice fly. Kimlinger, Cicalello and Andy Campbell had two hits each for SMU, while Coulson, LaManna and Pavelko tallied two hits apiece for the Oles. Charlie Ruud (8-2) notched the complete-game victory, allowing eight hits and fanning six. Nick Steig (3-1) took the loss in relief for St. Mary’s, eliminating the Cardinals from the tournament. Box score
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