Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Tyler Summers helped rescue the Hamline baseball team when they needed him the most. The junior shortstop drove in six runs -- four on a grand slam homer -- to lift HU to a 12-7 win and a split of their MIAC doubleheader with St. Mary's at Max Molock Field in Winona Wednesday. It was Hamline's first conference win after three losses and lifted the Pipers to a 10-9 overall record. 

Summers, Andy Sammon, Evan Cordell and Dan Moro had two hits each in the win. Brandon Rushmeyer had a sterling relief effort, going 7.1 innings to earn the win and even his record at 1-1. 

HU lost the opener, 20-2. They were down 4-0 in Game 2 when they erupted quickly for four fourth inning runs. Moro tripled a run home and dashed in on Cordell's single. Rick Tormey and Summers added RBI singles before the inning ended. Sammon broke the tie with a sacrifice fly the next inning and upped the margin to 6-4 with a RBI single. Later in that inning, Summers delivered the big blow that broke the game open at 10-4. 

HU added two more in the ninth and held off a late SMU rally to gain the win. 

In the opener, SMU scored 10 first inning runs and never looked back. Summers and Cody Berumen, who had two hits in the game, had the Piper RBIs. 

Hamline faces St. Thomas (10-5, 2-1 MIAC) Saturday at Siebert Field on the University of Minnesota campus. The doubleheader  begins at noon.