ST. PAUL - The Martin Luther College baseball team dropped both games of its doubleheader at Northwestern-St. Paul on Friday by the scores of 12-1 (seven innings) and 4-3.

UNW 12, MLC 1 (7 innings)

The Eagles scored at least once in every inning on the way to a 12-1 win in game one.

UNW recorded 17 hits in the game and never trailed. After scoring once in the first inning, the Eagles added three runs in the second, and scored multiple runs in the fourth (two runs) and fifth (four runs) frames.

Andrew Mantz (1-5) started the game for the Knights and allowed 11 runs on 15 hits in 4.1 innings. Tyler Roecker finished the game for the Knights in relief, allowing one run in 1.2 innings. 

Dillon Solomon drove in the team's only run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning that scored Caleb Christopher. 

UNW 4, MLC 3

UNW held off a ninth-inning rally by the Knights to secure the sweep with a 4-3 win in game two.

Solomon (1-5) pitched well for MLC in defeat, allowing four runs (one earned) on eight hits and three walks in a complete game effort. 

MLC opened the scoring in the first inning with a two-out rally capped by an RBI-single from Joey Behm to take a 1-0 lead.

The Eagles responded with three unearned runs in the second following a two-out error, but Solomon held them to only one run the rest of the way to keep the Knights within striking distance.

In the ninth inning, MLC cut the deficit to 4-3 after an error allowed Solomon and Behm to score, but UNW stranded the tying run at second base to close the game.

MLC fell to 5-24 on the season and 3-9 in UMAC play following the two defeats. UNW improved to 18-14 overall and 7-5 in league play with the sweep.

The Knights will return to action on Tuesday, April 30, when they host Crown College in a doubleheader. First pitch of game one is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.