TUCSON, Ariz. – The Edgewood College Baseball team moved its record to 4-0 on its Arizona trip with a 7-3 win over Hamline University on Wednesday. Eric Nelson delivered five scoreless innings on the mound, while Kyle Sagan led the team at the plate in the Eagles fifth-straight win.

EAGLES 7, PIPERS 3
- After three scoreless innings to start the game, Edgewood College (6-4) got rolling in the bottom of the fourth by pushing across three. Joseph Kalafut started the scoring with an RBI double, plating Sagan. Kyle Semrad added an RBI double in the three-run inning.

- The Eagles added a run in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly from Jacob Slonim before Hamline (3-7) got back into the game with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. After those two runs scored, Hamline still had a runner on base when Garrett Redner entered, but Redner retired the next two batters before ending the inning with a pickoff at first base.

- The Eagles then added to their lead in the bottom of the seventh with three more runs. Ryan Ambrosy and Sagan each roped RBI doubles in the seventh, while Alex Prindle added a run-scoring single. Hamline would score once in the eighth inning, but Edgewood College finished things off with the four-run win.

- Sagan was locked in at the dish, going 4-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored, an RBI, and a stolen base. The meat of the Eagles (Sagan, Kalafut, Slonim) order combined for eight hits with Kalafut and Slonim each adding two hits. Semrad also collected a pair of hits for Edgewood College in Wednesday's win.

- Eric Nelson threw five scoreless frames to pick up his first win of the season. Nelson allowed just two hits and struck out six. Matthew Turner, Redner, Ben Collier, and Conner Dunfee all tossed one inning of relief with Dunfee finishing the game with a perfect ninth. Overall the Eagles staff scattered seven hits and struck out 11 batters.

- Cullen Buck paced the Pipers offense with two hits and two RBI. Zach Branson took the loss on the mound, allowing three earned in four innings of work.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- The Eagles and Hamline were playing for the seventh time overall for the first time since 2012. Hamline had won the last three games prior and the Pipers still hold a slight 4-3 edge in the series.

- The Eagles have now matched their longest winning streak from a season ago when they won five-straight games from March 24-April 1. Prior to that, Edgewood College hadn't won five-conescutive games since the 2017 season.

UP NEXT
- The Eagles will close out their Arizona trip tomorrow against another team from Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus. First pitch will be at 9 a.m. mountain time, or 11 a.m. central. It will be the Eagles third game in Arizona against a team from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, as they already have wins over Macalester and Hamline.