ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Macalester College baseball team split a MIAC doubleheader against the College of St. Scholastica Tuesday afternoon at Nicholson Field. The Scots won a pitching dual, 3-1 in the first game before falling in a slugfest, 18-13 in Game 2 to move to 12-21 overall and 5-13 in conference play. The Saints are now 20-17, 8-10 MIAC.

In the first game, St. Scholastica struck first with a run in the top of the third. Macalester responded in the bottom of the fourth, with junior Nathan Gumagay (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill) delivering a two-run single that plated first year Aram Dombalagian (Glenville, Ill./North Shore Country Day) and junior Josh Planko (Northville, Mich./Northville) from second and third for a 2-1 lead. The next batter, junior Raymond McCaskey (Colorado Springs, Colo./Manitou Springs), smacked a triple to centerfield, driving in Gumagay for the third run of the inning.

The score remained 3-1 into the seventh inning, when the Saints loaded the bases with two singles and a walk. But sophomore pitcher Isaiah Ramirez (Houston, Texas/Northbrook) kept the visitors from scoring, striking out the next two batters and getting the third out on a grounder to first to end the game. Ramirez pitched three scoreless innings of relief, allowing four hits while walking one and fanning four to earn the save. Senior Cam Scholl (Belmont, Calif./Carlmont) turned in a solid start, limiting the Saints to one run on eight hits with two strikeouts.

Similar to the first game, St. Scholastica took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first. The Scots came back in the bottom of the second. Dombalagian led off with a walk, junior Tristan Jones (Fairfield, Conn./Greens Farms Academy) doubled and junior Niko Alexander (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) hit a grounder to plate Dombalagian with the tying run. Gumagay followed with a two-run double to score Jones and Alexander for a 3-1 lead, then came home later on a grounder by junior Stephen Paulsen (Middleton, Wis./Middleton) to make the score 4-1 Scots.

The lead didn't last long, as the Saints scored six runs on four hits and an error to lead, 7-4. In the bottom of the third, Macalester loaded the bases on a walk, an error and a hit batter for Gumagay, who was hit by a pitch to bring home Dombalagian. After a pitching change, McCaskey also was hit by a pitch to score Jones and make the score 7-6. A bases-loaded walk by sophomore Holden Peacock (Houston, Texas/Kinkaid School) tied the game at 7-7, then Paulsen hit a sacrifice fly to plate Gumagay with the go-ahead run, 8-7. That's four runs without a hit for Macalester in the inning.

Again St. Scholastica answered with two more runs in the top of the fifth for a 9-8 edge. But in the bottom of the sixth the Scots loaded the bases with two out for Jones, who laced a double into left center to score Planko and sophomore Braden LaChapelle (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) for a 10-9 advantage. The Saints put some distance between them and the Scots with six runs in the top of the seventh and another in the eighth for a 16-10 lead. After Macalester scored a run on a double by Dombalagian that brought in Paulsen, St. Scholastica put two more runs on the board to make the score 18-11. In the bottom of the ninth, McCaskey and Peacock hit RBI singles to close out the scoring, 18-13.

Peacock went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, while Gumagay had two hits, three runs and three RBIs. Jones had two doubles with two runs and two RBIs.

Macalester closes out the 2025 season with a MIAC doubleheader against No. 21 Gustavus on Friday, May 2, beginning at 2:30 p.m. at Nicholson Field.