Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Game 1 - Wayne State 3 Minnesota Duluth 2

Game 2 - Minnesota Duluth 7 Wayne State 2

            Junior Tanner Simons connected on a three-run homer in the sixth inning to give Wayne State a 3-2 win in the opener of a Northern Sun Conference baseball doubleheader played at Bulldog Park in Duluth, Minnesota Saturday afternoon.  The host Bulldogs salvaged a split in the second game by limiting the Wildcats to just three hits in a 7-2 win to split the doubleheader and the four-game weekend series.  WSC is now 13-17 and 8-10 in the league while UMD is 14-14 and 9-7 in NSIC games.
            The opener saw Simons come up big with a three-run homer in the top of the sixth, erasing a 2-0 deficit, as the Wildcats won the first game 3-2.
            Down 2-0 after five innings, WSC opened the sixth with a Tandon Dorn single up the middle.  Aaron Krier then singled to right center and Simons followed with a three-run homer over the left field wall for a 3-2 WSC lead.
            Freshman starter Aiden Breedlove and reliever Kyle Kennebeck combined on a four-hitter as the Wildcats held on for the 3-2 win.
            WSC had six hits in the win to just four by UMD.  Bodie Cooper was 2 for 3 with a pair of singles.  Simons homered and had three RBI while Krier, Dorn and David Janes each singled.
            Breedlove (2-3) earned the win with six strong innings, allowing just two runs on four hits with four strikeouts and two walks.  Kennebeck worked the final inning and had one walk and one strikeout to post his first save.
            The second game saw WSC record just three hits as UMD won the nightcap 7-2 after trailing 2-0 early.
            WSC scored in the first on a Cody Jenkins solo homer for a 1-0 lead.  In the second, Janes doubled down the left field line to extend his hitting streak to 16 games and scored on a Jake Lemar sacrifice fly to right field for a 2-0 WSC lead.
            But WSC had just one hit over the final seven innings and UMD used a four-run fifth to take control for a 7-2 win.
            The only other hit for WSC in the game after the second inning was a eighth inning single by Chris May.
            Senior starter Teague McFadden (1-3) suffered the pitching loss, allowing six runs (three earned) on nine hits over 5 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and two walks.  Keenan Breen, Brady Johnson and Lawson Zenner each worked in relief for the Wildcats.
            Wayne State will play at Southwest Minnesota State Tuesday afternoon in an NSIC doubleheader starting at 1:30 p.m. in Marshall, Minnesota.