Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Hamline University baseball team certainly knows how to make an impressive debut. In the first baseball game ever played at CHS Field, Hamline jumped to a 4-0 lead, fell behind and then rallied for a 6-5 win over Concordia. They got off to a great start as well in the cond game but the Cobbers made a late charge to sneak out with a 7-6 win and a split of the MIAC doubleheader. 

With a good crowd on hand cheering them on, HU bolted loose for four second inning runs. Tyler Summers had the honor of the first RBI in the Pipers' new St. Paul digs when he singled to score Evan Cordell, who had opened the frame with a double. Dominic Dandrea followed with a two RBI double to left and Collin Olstad lifted a sacrifice fly to left to make it 4-0. 

The Cobbers turned on HU starter Zach Smith for four runs in their own right in the fourth inning to tie the game and took the lead with a solo in the sixth. HU struck back immediately. Jacob Picht doubled to left center and moved to third when Cordell singled. Chris Zeller walked to load the bases. Andy Sammon forced Zeller at second but Picht scored to retie the game at 5 and Cordell scampered to third. Summers followed with a perfect sacrifice bunt that scored Cordell with the winning run. Shay Torgerson (3-1), the third Hamline pitcher of the game, tossed a 1-2-3 seventh and HU had the historic win. 

The momentum carried into the start of Game 2. Joe Setrum's two RBI double was the big blow in a three-run second inning. Cordell doubled hom a run and later scored himself in the third as HU extended the lead to 5-0. Dan Moro, who had three hits in the game, drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth and things looked good with a 6-0 lead. 

Matt Connell had allowed just two hits in the first six innings but gave up two hits and hit a batter to start the seventh. The Cobbers kept on going from there, scoring seven times before HU could extinguish the fire. The Pipers made two runs at the Cobbers, getting runners in scoring position in the eighth and ninth innings but couldn't move them home. 

Hamline is now 13-12 overall, 4-6 in the MIAC. 

The Pipers will see a lot of their new home in the next week. UM-Morris visits CHS Field Tuesday for a non-conference DH starting at 3:00 p.m. Macalester is the guest for a MIAC pair Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. and Augsburg wraps up the week with a nine-inning, non-conference game April 18 at 3:30 p.m.