DAVENPORT, Fla. – Sophomores Sam Lavin and Joey Glampe both homered as the St. Olaf College baseball team eased to a 16-2 non-conference victory over Keuka College to open its Florida trip on Thursday at Northeast Regional Park.

Lavin hit a two-run shot for his first collegiate home run in the second and Glampe blasted his first-career grand slam to help St. Olaf (2-2) to the run-rule victory in its fifth-ever meeting with Keuka (3-4). The Oles used three big innings to post their highest run total since a 16-7 victory at Bethany Lutheran on Apr. 25, 2019, scoring seven in the second, four in the third, and five in the fifth.

St. Olaf's 1-2-3 hitters combined to go 7-for-9 with three walks, eight runs, and eight RBI in the win, as first year Evan Hammonds reached base all five times by going 3-for-3 with a walk, a hit-by-pitch, three runs and two RBI out of the leadoff spot. Lavin was 2-for-3 with two walks, two RBI, and three runs, while Glampe went 2-for-3 with two runs and four RBI.

In addition to a 16-hit attack offensively, three Ole pitchers held the Wolves to six hits in the win. In his first collegiate start, Matthew Oberlander yielded just one run on four hits with three strikeouts in three innings. Sophomore Sean Goldman earned his first collegiate win by retiring all nine of the batters he faced while striking out four. Sophomore Thomas Quello struck out two Keuka hitters in the seventh inning.

St. Olaf put up a seven-spot in the bottom of the second as the first eight batters of the inning all reached base safely. Sophomore Jack Fochtman opened the scoring with an RBI single and junior Avery von Herrmann followed with a run-scoring double to deep right to prompt an early pitching change for Keuka before Hammonds delivered a two-run single to make it 4-0. Lavin followed Hammonds' single with a towering home run to right and junior Lucas Ammons added a two-out RBI single for his first RBI in an Ole uniform.

Glampe knocked in all four of St. Olaf's runs in the third with his fifth-career home run, as he brought in Fochtman, Hammonds, and Lavin with a one-out drive to left after the Wolves got on the board in the top of the inning. The Oles tacked on five more runs in the fifth, including two on a double to right by first year Matthew Kulesa, who recorded the first two RBI of his collegiate career with the hit.

Eleven Oles had at least one hit, 10 scored at least one run, and 10 drove in at least one run in the win, as St. Olaf hit an even .500 (16-for-32) as a team.

The Oles take on Hamilton College in a doubleheader on Friday, March 25 with first pitch at 9 a.m. CDT from Northeast Regional Park. The two programs have met just twice previously, with St. Olaf claiming a 19-4 win in 2009 and a 13-8 victory in 1999.