WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The St. Olaf College baseball team held a 5-4 lead midway through the game before Augustana College (Ill.) scored the final four runs of the game to top the Oles, 8-5, on Sunday at Chain O' Lakes Complex.

After trailing 3-0 early, St. Olaf (3-6) scored five of the next six runs to take a 5-4 lead in the fourth inning, but Augustana (14-3) plated the game's last four runs to win the first of three games between the two programs in Florida. The Vikings sat just outside the top 25 in this week's D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll after collecting 46 points in the poll.

First year Breckin Hadley had the first three-hit game of his young collegiate career by going 3-for-5 with a double and two RBI to pace St. Olaf's 12-hit attack. Sophomore Evan Hammonds, sophomore Matthew Kulesa, and junior Joey Glampe had two hits apiece as well.

Juniors Sam Lavin and Brock Brumley each went four innings on the mound for the Oles, with Lavin yielding four runs (three earned) on eight hits with no walks and three strikeouts over the first four frames. Brumley took the loss after allowing four runs (three earned) on three hits and with walks and one strikeout before junior Owen Manning struck out one in a scoreless ninth inning.

Jacob Reusch earned the victory for Augustana after fanning seven in 5.1 innings of two-hit shutout relief for Augustana, which got at least one hit from eight of its nine starting position players in the win.

The Vikings took an early 3-0 lead with a run in the first and two more in the second before the Oles got on the board in the home half of the third. St. Olaf strung together three consecutive one-hit singles to score their two runs on back-to-back run-scoring hits by Hadley and Kulesa.

Augustana got one of the runs back in the fourth to push its lead to 4-2, but St. Olaf answered in the bottom of the inning to take its only lead of the game at 5-4. After first year Mason Buck and Hammonds started the inning with singles to put runners on the corners, junior Sam Lavin plated Buck with a double for the first run of the inning. Two batters later, Frank Lavin tied the game with a sacrifice fly before Hadley put the Oles on top with a two-out RBI single to score the older Lavin.

The Vikings, who appeared in the NCAA Tournament a year ago, tied the game with a run in the sixth, went ahead for good with another in the seventh, and added two insurance runs in the eighth. Reusch took care of the rest, retiring the final seven St. Olaf batters.

After an off day, the two teams play a single nine-inning game on Tuesday, March 28 at 11 a.m. CDT back at Chain O' Lakes Complex.