GAME 1 BOX SCORE
GAME 2 BOX SCORE

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Southwest Minnesota State belted 10 home runs in two games to earn a doubleheader sweep over Bemidji State on Wednesday in Bemidji.

SMSU (15-11, 11-5 NSIC) rallied for a 14-8 victory in game one, and then jumped to an early lead in game two to earn a 12-4 win and complete the sweep.  SMSU won three of four games versus BSU (13-24, 4-16) this season. 

Andrew Kinney hit three home runs on the day and now has 40 in his career.  He is two shy of Colby Pack's school record of 42 (2003-06).

In game one, Tyler Jendro snapped an 8-8 tie in the eighth inning with a three-run homer to lead the Mustangs to the come-from-behind victory.  It was SMSU's first victory this season when trailing after six innings in 10 games.

SMSU trailed 8-7 heading into the eighth, but with one out, Tyler Fayden doubled and came around to score on a game-tying single by Chris Eichten.  Brian Ness then walked to put runners on second and first, before Jendro stepped up and belted his second homer of the season.

Fayden led the way for SMSU in the opener going 4-for-5, including his fourth homer of the season, four runs scored and two RBI.  Eichten finished with three hits and a career-high four RBI, while Jendro, Cody Curry and Matt Bauer each collected two hits.

Jared Pick started on the mound for SMSU and lasted 5.2 innings, allowing seven runs, five earned, on 10 hits, with four strikeouts.  Jacob Brockpahler earned his first career victory recording the last two outs of the seventh inning.  Adam Schrader earned the save retiring six of the seven batters he faced in the final two innings.

SMSU, which trailed five different times in the game, fell behind 3-0 after one inning of play, but tied the game in the second on run-scoring singles by Eichten and Jendro and a sac fly by Derick Swenson.

Down 4-3 in the third, Andrew Kinney smashed a homer over the right field wall to tie the game.  BSU scored twice in the fifth, before SMSU rallied again in the sixth on a two-run homer by Fayden to left field.

BSU scored an unearned run in the sixth to regain the lead, but Curry tied it back up in the seventh with a double to score Andy Williamson.  The Beavers came right back with a solo homer in the seventh to take an 8-7 lead, before the Mustangs answered with its big eighth inning.

SMSU put the game away in the ninth on a solo home run by Bauer and a two-run homer by Eichten.

In the nightcap, Kinney belted two more home runs and finished 2-for-4 with with two RBI, while Bauer was 3-for-4 with homer and three RBI.  Curry, Fayden and Eichten all finished with two hits.  Eichten has now recorded six straight multi-hit games, while  Fayden has had at least two hits in seven of his last eight games.

Tyler Paulson made just his second start of the season for SMSU and tossed a solid five innings, allowing four runs, three earned, on six hits, while striking out four and walking none.  Paulson is now 2-0 on the season.

Kinney gave SMSU an early 1-0 lead with a two-out solo homer in the first.  BSU hit its own solo homer in the bottom of the first to tie the game, but Fayden answered with homer to left field to push SMSU back into the lead at 2-1.  Later in the inning Swenon would make it 3-1 with a two-out single to score Jendro.

The Mustangs pushed across three more runs in the third inning, as Kinney led the frame off with another homer, before Eichten made it 6-1 with a two-run double.  

The lead moved to 9-1 in the fourth as Curry doubled and came around to score on a two-run blast from Bauer.  SMSU scored its final run of the inning on a BSU throwing error.

SMSU extended the lead to 10-1 in the fifth inning with Bauer delivering a run-scoring single scoring Swenson.

Bemidji State scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth to cut the deficit to 10-4, but again the long ball was the difference for SMSU, as Bobby Zellman smacked his first home run of the season, a two-run shot, to give SMSU a 12-4 lead.

Southwest Minnesota State will return to Alumni Field this weekend to open a six-game homestand. SMSU will take on Upper Iowa University in a four-game series starting Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.