Minneapolis, Minn.- The Macalester College baseball team opened up the 2020 season by taking on College of St. Scholastica in U.S. Bank Stadium. The Scots dropped game one to CSS 5-2 and then responded by taking game two by a score of 4-2. Both teams are now 1-1 on the season after splitting the season opening double header.
To start game one, CSS took a 2-0 lead over the Scots. In the third inning, Macalester put up a run to cut the deficit in half after sophomore
Lian Lincoln (Anchorage, Alaska/South Anchorage) scored sophomore
Anthony Palma (Moorseville, N.C./Lake Norman) on a single through the right side. St. Scholastica responded by capitalizing on two Macalester errors and scoring a run the very next inning.
The Scots strung toghter a few hits throughout the rest of the game but struggled to plate any runners and score. In the top of the seventh, junior
Jack Sahargun (Coto De Caza, Calif./Tesoro) tripled and tallied his first RBI of the season but it was not enough as the Scots could not rally any more runs after that. Macalester fell 5-2 in the first game of the season.
Despite out-hitting CSS 8-6 in game one, Macalester left a total of seven runners on base.
Box Score Game 1
In game two, CSS seemed to be riding their momentum from last game by coming out and scoring 2 runs in the first inning on two hits. The Scots would not let those runs go unanswered tough. In the bottom of the first, the Scots brought a run across after first year
Joe Margolis (Chicago, Ill./Jones College Prep) walked with the bases loaded.
The Scots pitching staff and defense teamed up to shut CSS out for the rest of the game after giving up two runs in the first. In the bottom of the fifth inning, sophomore
Michael Moreno (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) doubled to bring Lincoln and junior
Cooper Jensen (Washigton, D.C./The Field School) home to put the Scots up 3-2 with two innings left in the game. In the bottom of the sixth, Sahargun walked with the bases loaded to brig in an insurance run for Macalester.
First year
Peter Aspholm (Winthrop, Wash./Liberty Bell) earned his first career save of the season after coming in to face a batter and then picking off a St. Scholastica runner at third to end the game.
Macalester will take on Crown College in a double header Monday, Mar. 2 at 2:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. in U.S. Bank Stadium.
Box Score Game 2
