MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Playing its second doubleheader in as many days, the St. Olaf College baseball team won game one, 7-1, before falling, 7-6, in eight innings in the night cap against Bethany Lutheran on Wednesday evening at U.S. Bank Stadium.

St. Olaf (3-1) used a five-run fifth inning to turn a 2-0 lead into a 7-0 advantage in game one and led 6-4 late in game two before Bethany Lutheran (1-4) rallied to salvage a split.

St. Olaf 7, Bethany Lutheran 1 | Box Score

In the opener, St. Olaf broke open a 2-0 game with five runs in the sixth inning on its way to the win. Six Oles had a hit, six scored a run, and six drove in a run in the victory.

On the mound, Forrest Kobelt recorded the win with four shutout innings and allowed just two hits and one walk with a pair of strikeouts. Will Wamre escaped trouble in each of his two innings of shutout relief in his collegiate debut before Jac Childs got the final three outs.

The Oles got on the board first in the bottom of the third when Bobby Isbell doubled to left center, moved to third on a ground out, and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of TJ Rogers. The Vikings threatened to tie the game or go ahead in the top of the fifth, but Wamre got a ground ball double play to escape a bases-loaded, one-out jam.

In the next half inning, St. Olaf doubled its lead on an RBI single by Isbell after Travis McDonald started the inning by drawing a walk and moved to second on a bunt. Bethany Lutheran again filled the bases with one out in the sixth, but Wamre struck out the next two batters to get out of trouble again.

The Oles plated five runs on five hits in the bottom of the sixth to break the game open. Andrew Nomoto, McDonald, Brian Nevin, and Harald Borg all had run-scoring hits in the inning to stretch St. Olaf's lead to 7-0.

The Vikings got one run in the seventh, but Childs left the bases loaded with his second strikeout of the night to end the game in his first appearance on the mound since 2018.

Bethany Lutheran 7, St. Olaf 6 (8 inn.) | Box Score

St. Olaf used a pair of three-run innings to take a 6-4 lead into the bottom of the seventh, but Bethany Lutheran scored twice to send the game to extra innings and eventually won it on a walk-off double by Carter Wendlandt in the eighth.

The Oles trailed 4-3 before taking the lead with three runs in the top of the fifth and held the 6-4 lead until the home half of the seventh. After loading the bases with nobody out, the Vikings scored once on a double play grounder and, down to their last out, tied the game on a double by Ben Hopper.

After a 1-2-3 top of the eighth, Bethany Lutheran took the night cap on a two-out walk-off double to center by Wendlandt. Nick Shubert picked up the win after striking out two of the three batters he faced in the top of the eighth.

St. Olaf jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first, scoring two unearned runs on a throwing error and another on a one-out RBI triple by Jack Fochtman, who picked up his first collegiate RBI with the hit. Bethany Lutheran got two of the runs back in the bottom of the inning on a two-run double by Jake LaBerge and later tied the game in the second on a two-out, RBI double by Ross Beumer.

The Vikings took their first lead of the game when Beumer singled in a run with two outs in the fourth. The Oles quickly reclaimed the lead with three runs in the next half inning. With runners on second and third and one out, Joey Glampe knocked in a pair with a single to right and later scored on a two-out triple by Sam Lavin to make the score 6-4 prior to the late Bethany Lutheran rally.

After homering and driving in four runs in his collegiate debut the day before, Glampe was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI to lead the way offensively for St. Olaf. Isbell also had a pair of hits and Matthew Muller scored twice.

Six pitchers worked in the game for the Oles, including Childs, who allowed one run in three innings.

Beumer reached all five times for the Vikings, going 2-for-2 with three walks, two runs, and two RBI.

St. Olaf returns to U.S. Bank Stadium to face Augsburg University in a non-conference doubleheader on Monday, March 22 at 5/7 p.m.