NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College baseball team recorded its first Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) sweep of the season with 6-4 and 16-6 victories over Macalester College on Thursday afternoon at Mark Almli Field.

St. Olaf (10-11, 4-5 MIAC) scored all six of its runs in the opener in the first inning – including a three-run home run by sophomore Joey Glampe – and held on the rest of the way to claim game one, 6-4. The Oles completed the sweep of Macalester (8-15, 4-6 MIAC) with the run-rule win in game two behind a season-high 18-hit performance.

St. Olaf hosts Concordia-Moorhead on Saturday, April 23 at Mark Almli Field, with first pitch set for 1 p.m.

St. Olaf 6, Macalester 4 | Box Score

In game one, St. Olaf started the contest with four-straight hits to put four runs on the board before the first out of a six-run first inning. Macalester chipped away at the lead with two runs in the fourth and one each in the sixth and seventh before senior Jonah Smithson closed the door in the seventh with his first-career save.

Senior Sam Westermeyer picked up his third victory of the season with five innings of two-run ball for the Oles. The righthander allowed just five hits and did not walk a batter with seven strikeouts.

St. Olaf wasted little time jumping on Macalester starter Thomas Windels in the first. After sophomore Brian Nevin led off with a single, classmate Sam Lavin brought him in with a double to deep right center. Senior Andrew Nomoto followed with a single to put two runners on for Glampe, who hit a three-run home run – his team-leading fifth of the year – to left to make it 4-0. Later in the inning, junior Harald Borg drove in two more runs with a two-out single to right to cap the six-run, six-hit first frame.

Hayes Waddell started a rally for the Scots in the fourth with a two-run home run and the visitors got within two runs with unearned runs in the sixth and seventh. After Westermeyer exited the game to start the sixth, junior Will Wamre gave up two unearned runs over 1.1 innings of relief before Smithson got the final two outs to earn the save.

Will Moscato held the Oles to one hit over 5.1 shutout innings after entering the game in relief in the first inning.

St. Olaf 16, Macalester 6 (7 inn.) | Box Score

St. Olaf recorded a season-high 18 hits and matched its season high of 16 runs in the run-rule win in game two. Lavin paced the 18-hit attack by going 4-for-6 with five RBI, first year Matthew Kulesa was 3-for-4 with four runs scored, and fifth-year senior Matthew Muller went 1-for-2 with three walks, a home run, two RBI, and four runs scored.

The Oles scored in five of their seven innings at the plate, including three four-run innings and a three-run third. Nevin got on base four times, going 3-for-5 with a walk, a double, a run, and an RBI, while Borg drove in three runs as well.

St. Olaf opened the scoring in the second with four runs on just one hit, benefiting from three walks and a hit batter in the inning. Lavin's two-out, three-run double to right center was the lone hit of the frame.

After the Scots got on the board in the third, the Oles responded with three runs of their own in the next half inning. Junior Avery von Herrmann drove in a run with a one-out double to left center and two more runs came around on a Macalester error later in the inning.

Macalester trimmed its deficit to 7-4 in the top of the fifth, but St. Olaf got one of the runs back in the home half of the inning on a two-out infield hit by Lavin. The Oles broke the game wide open in with four runs in the sixth to take a 12-4 lead. Muller followed a Glampe leadoff single with a two-run home run to right – his first home run of the season – to ignite the four-run inning.

Leading 12-6, St. Olaf got the four runs it needed to end the game early in the seventh. First year Evan Hammonds and Borg had back-to-back RBI singles, Lavin drove in a run with a ground out, and the final run came in on a throwing error after a strikeout.

Sophomore Sean Goldman picked up his second win of the season by allowing just one earned run (four runs) in four innings in relief of starter Matthew Oberlander, who threw two shutout innings. Seven pitchers worked in the game for Macalester and five gave up at least one run.