JACKS TURN TABLES ON NORTHERN COLORADO

Saturday, March 28

Greeley, Colo.

noon MT/1 p.m. CT

South Dakota State University

8-19, 3-5

Northern Colorado

6-22, 4-3

South Dakota St.

Northern Colo.

Photo by: Ricky Bassman

3/28/2026 9:33:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

GREELEY, Colo. — South Dakota State erupted for 18 runs in the final three innings, including a 12-run top of the eighth, to post a 21-10 come-from-behind victory over Northern Colorado Saturday afternoon at Jackson Field.

In leveling the three-game series at a win apiece, the Jackrabbits improved to 8-19 overall and 3-5 in The Summit League. UNC dropped to 6-22 overall and 4-3 in league play.

Trailing 10-3 through six innings, the Jackrabbits began to close the gap with a three-run top of the seventh against the UNC bullpen. Luke Wroblewski opened the inning by reaching on an error and later scored on a two-run double by Dayton Franke. Luke Luskey scored the third run of the inning on a passed ball.

Each of the first 11 Jackrabbit batters in the top of the eighth reached base safely and scored as SDSU sent a total of 16 men to the plate in the 12-run frame. Carter Taylor began the rally with a single and scored on a pinch-hit triple to the right-center gap by Mason Lang. Each of the next four batters walked to force in two runs before Franke delivered his second two-run double in as many innings to give the Jackrabbits an 11-10 lead.

Nate Wachter added a two-run single before Taylor tallied his second hit of the inning and third of the game, an RBI double to left field. Nolan Grawe plated two more with a double of his own and later scored the final run of the inning on a base hit by Luskey.

SDSU tacked on three more runs in the ninth on an RBI single by Wroblewski and two-run triple by Owen Siegert.

In all, the Jackrabbits tied a season high with 15 hits — eight of which went for extra bases (five doubles, two triples and a home run). SDSU also drew 11 walks in the contest.

Taylor hit his third home run of the season to lead off the top of the third for the first run of the game, but Northern Colorado countered with three runs in the home half on the fourth on a two-run triple by Mason Griffin and an RBI single by Ethan Sanchez.

The Bears then put six runs on the board in the fifth inning as Griffin continued to torment SDSU pitching in the series with a run-scoring single and Brandon Sanchez connected on a three-run homer. UNC's lead grew to 10-3 on an RBI groundout off Griffin's bat in the sixth.

Jackrabbit starter Sam Novotny exited after allowing five runs on six hits over four-plus innings. Drew McDowell was awarded the victory after tossing 2 2/3 innings in which he gave up two runs. Tristan Augedahl pitched two shutout innings to close out the victory. All three SDSU hurlers struck out three batters.

UNC starter Jake Storey struck out seven over six innings, but did not factor in the decision.

ON DECK
The decisive game of the series is set for noon Mountain Time (1 p.m. Central) on Sunday.

NOTES

SDSU leads the all-time series, 44-38
The Jackrabbits' 21 runs were their most in a game since a 21-7 home victory over North Dakota on April 14, 2015
SDSU turned in its second double-digit inning of the season, after scoring a school-record 17 runs in the fourth inning of a Feb. 17 game at Incarnate Word
Grawe recorded an extra-base hit for the fifth consecutive game with his team-leading 11^th double
Wroblewski tied an SDSU season high by scoring four runs, matching Keagen Jirschele's total from the first game of a doubleheader against North Dakota State last Saturday
Grant Sorensen scored three times after entering the game as a pinch-runner following Lang's pinch-hit triple in the eighth
Augedahl now has 26 strikeouts in 19 innings pitched this season

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: McDowell, Drew ()

L: Brady Hudson ()

South Dakota St.

Batting:

2B: Grawe, Nolan 1 ; Franke, Dayton 2 ; Werk, Nic 1 ; Taylor, Carter 1

3B: Siegert, Owen 1 ; Lang, Mason 1

HR: Taylor, Carter 1

RBI: Siegert, Owen 2 ; Grawe, Nolan 3 ; Luskey, Luke 2 ; Franke, Dayton 4 ; Wachter, Nate 2 ; Taylor, Carter 2 ; Jirschele, Keagen 1 ; Lang, Mason 1 ; Wroblewski, Luke 2

SF: Jirschele, Keagen 1 ; Wroblewski, Luke 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Siegert, Owen 1 ; Grawe, Nolan 3 ; Luskey, Luke 2 ; Franke, Dayton 1 ; Wachter, Nate 1 ; Werk, Nic 3 ; Taylor, Carter 3 ; Sorensen, Grant 3 ; Wroblewski, Luke 4