Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Piper baseball team exhibited their own version of a Big Bang Theory Sunday at CHS Field. Hamline scored all the runs they would need in a 4-3 opening game win over Gustavus Adolphus in one inning. They then came back with a seven run first inning in the second game en route to a 13-3 win and a sweep of the MIAC doubleheader. 

Hamline is 14-8 overall and 4-2 in MIAC play. (The latter mark currently has them in third place in the league.) 

The opener was moving along nicely at a scoreless pace through three innings. In the fourth, three HU errors helped the Gusties to a 3-0 lead. But HU swung right back in the bottom of the inning. After Collin Olstad was hit by a pitch, Nick Kukurich doubled him to third. Tyler Summers' fly ball single plated a run. A walk loaded the bases and Andy Sammon made it 3-2 with a RBI single. A pair of sacrifices (Dominic Dandrea on a fly ball and Nolan Schoonveld with a bunt) pushed across two more runs and that was it. 

Aaron Stoneberg, who had relieved starter Alex Bauermeister, took it from there, shutting down the Gusties on three singles in 3.1 innings to improve to a league best 5-0 won-loss mark. 

There was less drama in the second game. After Gustavus scored a run in the top of the first, Hamline replied by sending 11 batters to the plate in the bottom of the frame. HU had just three hits in the big inning but two of them -- Tyler Summers' home run and Jacob Picht's triple -- were responsible for knocking in four runs. Later, Sammon added a homer and two RBI and Joe Setrum contributed a single, a double and triple to the 14 hit attack.  Schoonveld scattered six hits and three runs over six innings to earn the victory, his third of the year against no setbacks. 

The Pipers are now 4-0 at CHS Field this year and have outscored opponents there, 32-10. They will look to continue those lusty hitting ways Tuesday when St. Mary's visits CHS for a MIAC doubleheader that will begin at 2:30 p.m.