NORTHFIELD, Minn. – After dropping game one in extra innings, the St. Olaf College baseball team won game two, 3-2, in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the ninth to snap Saint John's University's 15-game winning streak and claim a Senior Day split on Saturday at Mark Almli Field.

Saint John's (27-9, 16-8 MIAC) won the opener, 7-3, in eight innings after St. Olaf (11-7, 4-6 MIAC) used a seventh-inning rally to send the game into extra innings. With the score locked at 2-2 in the home half of the ninth in game two, Joey Glampe came around to score on a throwing error by the Johnnies to give the Oles the split.

Between games, St. Olaf celebrated the senior class of TJ Rogers, Bobby Isbell, Eli Tan, Travis McDonald, Jac Childs, Tanner McDonald, Cole Quiram, and Doug Byers, as well as student coach Luke Edwards, on the field.

Saint John's 7, St. Olaf 3 (8 inn.) | Box Score

Down 3-1 in its final at bat, St. Olaf tied the game on a two-run single by Isbell to push the game to extra innings, but Saint John's pushed across four runs in the top of the eighth to take the opener. Nick Penick went the distance on the mound for the Johnnies to improve to 6-0 on the season.

Trailing by two in the seventh, the Oles started the inning with back-to-back singles by Glampe and Sam Lavin, who then moved up a base on a sacrifice bunt by Harald Borg. After a fly out, Isbell brought in both runners with a single to shallow center and got to third on a throwing error on the play. With the winning run 90 feet away, Penick got a strikeout looking to send the game to extra innings.

The Johnnies started the top of the eighth with back-to-back singles and a sacrifice bunt of their own to put two in scoring position. Zach Selchow plated the winning runs with a two-run single and Saint John's tacked on two more unearned insurance runs before Penick finished off the complete game in the bottom of the frame.

Ethan Roe hit a solo home run in the second and drew a bases-loaded walk in the next inning to help the Johnnies to a 3-0 lead after four innings. St. Olaf got on the board in the fifth when Lavin drew a leadoff walk, advanced to third on a stolen base and a throwing error, and scored on a balk.

Penick held the Oles to three runs on six hits with one walk and six strikeouts. Sam Westermeyer worked the first five innings for St. Olaf, allowing three runs on six hits, before Sean Goldman threw the final three innings. Goldman took the loss after surrendering four runs (two earned) on five hits with a pair of strikeouts.

St. Olaf 3, Saint John's 2 | Box Score

With the teams deadlocked at 2-2, Glampe drew a walk to start the home half of the ninth and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by McDonald. With the winning run in scoring position, Lavin swung at the first pitch and hit a grounder to first, but an errant toss to the pitcher covering allowed Glampe to score the winning run.

After the Johnnies scored twice in the top of the first, Jonah Smithson and Will Wamre combined to hold the visitors scoreless for the first eight-plus innings. Smithson scattered three hits over a career-high 2.1 shutout innings before Wamre tossed six shutout innings to pick up the win and improve to 2-1 this season.

Saint John's jumped out to a 2-0 lead with two runs on just one hit in the top of the first. The Johnnies drew three walks in the inning and scored on a wild pitch and a balk.

St. Olaf started the bottom of the third with three-straight singles to load the bases and halved its deficit on a line-drive sacrifice fly off the bat of Andrew Nomoto. The Johnnies held onto a 2-1 lead until the bottom of the sixth when Matthew Muller provided a two-out RBI single to bring in Isbell after Isbell and Rogers got on base with singles.

Saint John's had at least one baserunner in each inning but left 15 runners on base in the game. St. Olaf also left 13 runners stranded and had a batter reach base in every inning except the seventh.

The two teams close out their weekend series with a single nine-inning game in Collegeville on Sunday, May 9 at 1 p.m.