Junior Brady Johnson had six hits and seven runs on the day to lead No. 8-ranked St. Thomas in MIAC baseball road action Wednesday at Macalester. UST won game one, 10-5, and leads game two 21-8 through 5 1-2 innings in a game suspended by lightning.

The final 3 1-2 innings will be played Thursday at 5:30 p.m. on the Scots' field.

It was a hitters' day at the park with wind gusts of 30-plus mph blowing out from home plate.

With 31 hits and 31 runs on the day, the Tommies (10-5 overall, 2-1 MIAC) saw their team batting average rise 20 points so far to .335 on the season.

Freshman Hunter Hart was 4-for-5 with four RBI and three walks on the day to lift his season average to .459. Freshman Jake Smith was 4-for-7 and reached seven times on the day, scoring six times. His two-run homer in the last inning of game one added two insurance runs.

Keller Knoll, Zach Gottfredsen and Cory Quinlan each has three hits on the day.

Five UST pitchers have recorded 18 strikeouts thus far in the two games.

The Tommie defense has committed just one error in 12 innings.

Freshman reliever Drew Molin worked 1 2-3 innings to get the victory in game one. Sophomore Bill Ferderer got the final six outs and recorded his second save in three days.