Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Rick Tormey saved his best college baseball season for his last one. The senior infielder had four hits and knocked in six runs for Hamline Thursday against Bethel at Hargis Park. The Pipers dropped both games of the doubleheader, 10-9 in 10 innings and 9-4. But Tormey raised his batting average 28 points and his slugging average to .539 (second best on the team) with an offensive outburst that defied the fact that HU was playing its first game in nine days in raw, windy conditions.

Domenic Dandrea followed Tormey's lead by whacking out a career high four hits in the opener. The senior catcher also scored a run and knocked in a pair with his four singles. Jacob Picht also pushed his hitting streak to eight straight games with a pair of doubles. 

Tormey's three-RBI double was the  major blow in a six run  fifth inning that gave HU a lead in the opener. The Royals, however, rallied for five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game at 8 and force extra frames.Dandrea's RBI single in the ninth inning pushed Hamline ahead, 9-8. BU came right back to tie the game in the bottom of the inning and won it in the 10th.

Bethel jumped to a 6-1 lead after two innings in  Game No. 2. Tormey got HU back in it with a three-run homer in the third inning to make it 6-4 but that was close as the Pipers would get. Nick Kukurich was 2-for-3 with with two runs scored for Hamline, which is now 10-18 overall and 3-7 in the MIAC. Picht did not get a hit in this game but drew a walk to extend his on-base string to nine consecutive games.

Hamline hosts Concordia (18-12, 7-5 MIAC) Saturday, April 22 at CHS Field. The doubleheader starts at 1:00 p.m.