Tommie Baseball made it seven in a row and 17 wins in its last 20 games with Saturday's 4-3, 9-3 home sweep of Hamline in conference play.
The Tommies (22-11 overall, 14-2 MIAC) improved to 10-0 at home. They remain one game ahead of Bethel (13-3) with four games to go in the MIAC race, and those teams meet Tuesday at St. Thomas in a 2:30 p.m. twinbill.
Six UST pitchers recorded 16 strikeouts and just four earned runs in 15 innings on the day. They stranded 21 Piper runners, 11 in game one. Four UST relievers combined to pitch four scoreless innings,
The Toms trailed 3-0 in the opener before collecting three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning after two were out. Sam Cobbs' two-run double and Sam Schneider's RBI single tied the game.
The opener went to extra innings, and in the eighth, Cobbs led off with a single, was bunted to second, and scored on Hart's one-out single to right field, as he slid in just ahead of the relay throw.
UST scored seven runs in game two on just two at-bats. Freshman Josh Thorp drove in three runs in the first inning on a one-out bases-loaded double. UST led 4-2 in the fifth inning with two out when two throwing errors with the bases loaded turned into four runs. A wild throw from third base after a grounder kicked away at first scoring three, and a relay throw from first to home also went wild to plate all four runners.
Freshman Shawn Falbo struck out two of the three batters he faced in a scoreless top of the eighth to get the game-one victory.
Both UST starters pitched into the sixth innings. Game one starter Mitch Larson allowed two earned runs, eight hits and one walk in 5 1-3 innings and fanned three. In game two, Drew Molin (4-1) pitched 5 2-3 innings and allowed seven hits, two walks, two earned runs and struck out six.
Anthony Winters homered in the sixth for the day's final run and also had a single. Sceider had two hits and three walks in seen plate appearances. Jake Smith had three its in game two and walked ans scored in game one.
Cobbs had a 17-game hitting streak halted in game two, but he's reached base in 32 of 33 games.