TUCSON, Ariz. – The Southwest Minnesota State baseball team pushed its winning streak to five in a row on Saturday earning a 13-1 seven-inning run-rule victory over Dakota Wesleyan at the Kino Sports Complex.
 
SMSU is now 9-5 overall in earning its third straight win over DWU on its spring trip.
 
Jameson Quinn (2-1) fired an outstanding six innings tying a career-high with 10 strikeouts in earning the victory. He allowed one run on four hits and did not walk a batter.
 
SMSU clubbed 10 hits with Levi Lampert finishing 2 for 4 with four RBIs and three runs scored, including belting a three-run home run. Tyler Froland and Brock Woitalla each had two hits, while Jared Cortez, Connor Davis and Woitalla each scored a pair of runs. SMSU also coaxed seven walks and was hit by one pitch in the game.
 
SMSU jumped to an early lead plating four runs in the home half of the first collecting two hits, while taking advantage of three walks, a hit by pitch and an error.  
 
Lampert opened the frame with a single, moved to second on a stolen base and scored on an RBI single by Cortez. Cortez would later score on a throwing error to the plate for the second run before Henry Hammrich was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Woitalla worked a bases loaded walk to make the score 4-0.
 
SMSU was held in check until the fifth inning when Davis leadoff with a single and later scored on a sac fly by Tanner Rezny.
 
DWU (9-5) plated a run in the sixth to make the score 5-1, but SMSU answered with a four-run sixth inning. Woitalla started the rally with a single and scored on a clutch two-out RBI double by Lampert. Following walks to Cortez and Davis, Froland dropped a two-run single to left field before Rezny ripped a run-scoring single to right field to extend the lead to 9-1.
 
After SMSU relief pitcher Dylan Webb worked a scoreless seventh inning, the Mustangs loaded the bases on singles by Hammrich and Woitalla and a walk by Caden King. After a balk pushed across the first run, Lampert ended the game via run-rule belting a three-run homer over the right field wall.
 
DWU finished the game with five hits.
 
SMSU continues play on Sunday with a 3 p.m. CDT match-up versus Hamline University.