TUCSON, Ariz. – Fourteen different players accounted for 18 hits as the Macalester College baseball team handed the University of Dubuque a 16-1 defeat Wednesday night at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Scots won their third straight game to improve to 3-1, while the Spartans fell to 2-2.

In the bottom of the first inning, first year Graham Low (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) sent a message with a monster home run over the right-field fence. The Scots broke the game open in the fourth with five runs, including back-to-back doubles by sophomore Nick McMullen (Payson, Ariz./Payson) and senior Sam Berk (Miami, Fla./Palmer Trinity School), and another from junior Peter Bertel (Minneapolis, Minn./Southwest). Senior Nick Sia (Crofton, Md./South River) and sophomore Ben Castagnetti (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) also drove in runs in the inning.

Then in the sixth, McMullen, first year Jared Abelson (Herndon, Va./South Lakes) and sophomore Collin Brantner (Farmington, Conn./Kingswood Oxford) drove in runs before junior Quentin Stuart (Nashville, Ind./Indiana Academy) blasted a three-run homer to put Macalester ahead, 12-1. The Scots scored three more runs in the seventh and another in the eighth, with Brantner plating two runs with a bases-loaded single. McMullen went 3-for-4 with a double, two runs and an RBI. Brantner and Castagnetti each delivered two hits in the win.

First year right-hander Cole Chang (Pleasantville, N.Y./Collegiate School) turned in a solid performance in his first collegiate start, allowing an unearned run and four hits while striking out four and walking three in six innings. Senior Griffen Gallagher (Westport, Conn./IMG Pendleton Academies) tossed two scoreless innings without giving up a hit, and junior Jamie Progebin (Washington, D.C./Maret) pitched a scoreless ninth in relief.

Macalester continues play at the Tucson Invitational on Wednesday, Mar. 16 with a game against Wesleyan at 3:00 p.m. in Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium.