The two victories pushes SMSU winning streak to nine straight and improves the Mustangs to 17-11 overall, 13-5 NSIC.  UIU drops to 13-18 overall, 8-10 NSIC.  The nine-game winning streak is the longest in one season in school history.  The longest overall win streak is 14 games, set during the last seven games of the 1996 season and the first seven of the 1997 season.  The 1995 and 2009 squads both had eight-game winning streaks.

In game one, SMSU used six pitchers, while the two teams combined for 477 pitches thrown in the game.

Corby McGlauflin won his first career game for the Mustangs, tossing the final two innings, allowing an unearned run, while striking out two.

Cody Curry, Andrew Kinney, Adam Thygesen and Chris Eichten all finished with three hits for the Mustangs, while Eichten and Thygesen both tied a school record with seven at bats in a single-game.

Upper Iowa took the lead at 3-2 in the top of the 14th inning scoring an unearned run off of McGlauflin.  UIU was not able to add onto the lead, leaving two runners on base.

SMSU rallied scoring two runs with two outs in the bottom of the inning to pick up the victory with Kinney drawing a bases loaded walk to push across the game-winning run.  Trailing 3-2 with two outs, Derick Swenson drilled a game-tying single down the right field line to score Josh Wendland.  Curry was then walked intentionally to load the bases before Kinney walked on a 3-2 pitch for the game-winner.

Upper Iowa scored the game's first run in the top of third inning, but SMSU answered in the bottom of the third.  With two outs, Cody Curry doubled and was followed moments later by another double by Andrew Kinney to tie the game at 1-1.

SMSU took its first lead of the game in the fifth inning with two outs as Derick Swenson was hit by a pitch and came around to score on a triple to center field by Curry. 

UIU came right back in the top of the sixth scoring a single run to tie the game at 2-2 and it stayed that way for another eight innings.

Both teams had chances to win throughout the later stages of the game.  SMSU had bases loaded and one out in the eighth, had second and third with one out in the 12th and again loaded the bases in the 13th but failed to score.

SMSU left a total of 21 runners on base, while UIU ended the game with 15 runners left on.

In game two, Tyler Jendro led an eight-hit SMSU attack with three hits and two RBI, while closing out the game for his second save of the season.  Kinney belted a solo homer in the first inning for his team-leading eighth of the year and the 41st of his career.

Chris Koep, making his first start of the season, tossed 4.1 innings, allowing six hits, six runs, three earned runs, while striking out four.  Aaron Johnson picked up the win in relief pitching 1.2 innings.

SMSU jumped on the board in the first inning with a two-out solo homer by Kinney.  The Mustangs added an unearned run in the second to make it 2-0, before plating three across in the third.  Bauer made it 3-0 with an RBI single, before Tyler Jendro made it 4-0 smacking a run-scoring single.  Jendro came across later in the inning on a fielder's choice to push the lead to 5-0.

UIU answered back scoring a run in the fourth inning and five more in the fifth to take a 6-5 lead.  The Peacocks took advantage of two Mustang errors in the inning to score three unearned runs.

SMSU countered with its own rally, pushing across two runs to regain the lead.  Eichten tied the game with an infield single and was followed by a bunt single by Jendro to give SMSU a 7-6 lead.

The Peacocks' leadoff batter reached on an error to lead off the seventh inning and moved to second on a wild pitch, but Jendro recorded a pop out and a pair of ground outs to seal the victory.

The two teams will close out the four-game series tomorrow with a doubleheader starting at 12 p.m.