ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Macalester College baseball team hosted Concordia College in the first MIAC doubleheader of the season Sunday afternoon at Nicholson Field. The Scots followed up a 5-3 loss in the first game with an 8-6 victory in Game 2 to earn the split. The results give Macalester an 11-7 mark on the year, while the Cobbers are now 9-7.

In the first game, the Scots broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the bottom of the third. Junior Collin Brantner (Farmington, Conn./Kingswood Oxford) doubled home junior Nick McMullen (Payson, Ariz./Payson), then scored on a single by sophomore Graham Low (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) for a 3-1 lead. Concordia tied the score in the top of the fourth on solo homers from Joe Hallock and Nate Leintz before taking the lead with runs in the fifth and sixth innings for a 5-3 advantage. Hallock pitched a perfect seventh inning to close out the win for the Cobbers.

Sophomore Cole Chang (Pleasantville, N.Y./Collegiate School) pitched six innings, allowing five runs, three earned, on six hits while fanning six and walking two. Senior lefty Anson Justi (Columbia, Md./McDonogh School) tossed a scoreless inning of relief. Brantner finished with two of the Scots' eight hits.

McMullen helped Macalester get off to a quick start in Game 2, singling home Baretta in the first inning and hitting a two-run double in the third for a 3-0 lead. Still in the third, a grounder by Brantner plated Baretta to extend the lead to 4-0. But four runs in the top of the fourth, including a two-run home run by Cody Rahman, knotted the score at 4-4. This time the Scots responded, getting a run-scoring single by Low in the fifth and pushing three runs across in the sixth for an 8-4 advantage. The inning included Baretta's fourth run of the game and a RBI double by Brantner. Concordia's fourth home run of the day, this one by Chad Johnson, was a part of a two-run ninth. But McMullen struck out the final batter with a runner on second to end the game.

Senior Doug Lewis (Duluth, Minn./Marshall) had a strong outing in relief of senior starter Dylan Edwards-Gaherty (New York, N.Y./American Studies). Lewis pitched four innings of scoreless relief, giving up just one hit and a walk while striking out three for the win. Baretta went 4-for-4 at the plate with two doubles, four runs and a walk. McMullen had two hits and drove in three runs, while first year Carl Francalangia (West Hartford, Conn./Loomis-Chaffee) went 2-for-3 with two runs.

Macalester continues MIAC play with a doubleheader at Hamline University on Wednesday, Apr. 5. The games, which start at 2:30 p.m., will be played at CHS Field in St. Paul, Minn.