Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 It took nearly six hours to do it but the Hamline baseball team finally came out even on the day with St. Mary's. Leo Zerr's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted the Pipers to a 7-6 win and a split of their MIAC doubleheader at CHS Field. The Pipers kept their third place standing in the conference in a hectic affair that saw them trail by three runs twice, rally to take a lead and then end up going an extra frame before everything ended on a happy note. 

Zerr shared hero honors with Nick Kukurich, who threw four innings of solid relief to get the win and Collin Olstad, who went 3-for-5 with a pair of RBIs. 

The Pipers trailed 3-0 before they even got to the plate in game 2. Olstad cut into that margin with a two run homer in the bottom of the first. SWMU scored twice in the third but HU responded with a run on Kukurich's RBI single. The Pipers tied the game in the sixth and went ahead in the seventh when Dominic Dandrea (who would play a key role in the winning rally) sent home a run on a sacrifice fly.

The Cardinals tied matters in the eighth and it stayed that until Joe Setrum opened the 10th with a single. Dandrea dropped down an excellent sacrifice bunt that SMU catcher Tyler Lursen threw away, allowing runners to move to second and third. Zerr then ended the drama with a fly deep enough to score Setrum and end the day on a happy note. 

In the first game, things were going along well with Hamline leading 3-1 when the Cardinals erupted for four sixth inning runs. HU got one of those runs back and had two runners on base in the last inning but could not tie the game. Andy Sammon had three hits with Jacob Picht, Tyler Summers and Kukurich adding two each for the Pipers. 

Hamline is now 15-9 overall and 5-3 in the MIAC. The Pipers now get eight days to catch their breath. They return to action April 20 against Bethel at CHS Field in a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader.