Hamline baseball coach Jim Weyandt  probably didn't know how hard it would be to reach 100 career wins. It took a game that lasted over four hours and saw the Pipers rally to tie the game in the ninth and 10th innings and finally win, 5-4,  over Macalester on a RBI single by Jake Dujmovic in the 13th inning at CHS Field. The win gave Hamline a split on the day and allowed them to put the memory of the 7-1 loss in the first game on a back burner. 

In his fifth season as HU head coach, Weyandt is 100-75 in his career. 

No win ever came harder. 

Dujmovic, a freshman infielder/pitcher from Coon Rapids, Minn.,was involved in a lot of the action. He scored the first Piper run in the fifth inning when he doubled and race home on a similar hit by Jacob Picht. The Scots had scored in the third inning and the 1-1 tie lasted until the ninth -- when the fun really began. 

The Scots scored a run in the top of the inning but the Pipers evened matters when pinch hitter Tanner Swenson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. In the 10th, Mac scored twice. Dujmovic led off with a walk. A hit batter and another walk loaded the bases. With two outs in the inning, Nick Kukurich then walked to score Dujmovic. 

Up came Swenson. 

History repeated itself as the senior was again hit by a pitch, forcing in the run that tied the game at 4. 

Two relatively quiet innings followed. In the Hamline 13th, Mitch Benson led off the inning and was safe on an error. Devin Rodgers sacrificed him to second and Benson moved to third on a wild pitch. Dujmovic then ended the lengthy drama with a game winning single. 

That made a winning pitcher out of Zach Smith (1-2), who toiled four innings in relief of starter Ben Resnick and first reliever Sam Petrick. Dujmovic and  Picht led the 12-hit attack with three hits apiece. 

In the first game, Kukurich singled home a first inning run but that was HU could muster. The Pipers were held to six hits. Alex Bauermeister started and fell to 1-2 on the season. Nate Rubbelke pitched five innings in relief. 

Hamline now stands 8-12 overall and 2-2 in the MIAC. The Pipers welcome Minn-Morris to CHS on Friday, April 7 for a non-conference doubleheader that begins at 3:00 p.m. HU returns to MIAC action Saturday with a pair of games at Gustavus Adolphus that will begin at 1:00 p.m.