SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Minot State University baseball team lost its first two games against Augustana University 11-1 and 6-5 on Saturday. 

In game one it was dominant pitching from Vikings player Ryan Hamilton, who pitched a full seven innings to improve his record to 3-0. The Beavers were able to score just one run off two hits against Hamilton. 

Keith Ailes (DH, Sr., Bozeman, Mont.) drove in the lone run of the day with a double in the final inning of the game bringing in Jordan Shulz (OF, Jr., Strasbourg, Saskatchewan) who had the other hit for the Beavers. 

The second game of the day went into extra innings as MSU tied the game with a five-run inning in the eighth. With the Vikings scoring one run in the fifth and four in the sixth the Beavers found themselves trailing 5-5 heading into the eighth inning. 

In the eighth inning, two singles, a walk and a sacrifice fly brought in five runners to tie the game up and eventually send it into extra innings. Again the designated hitter played a key role for the team as Michael Borst (Fr., McHenry, Ill.) had two RBIs off a single up the middle. Borst had two of the seven total hits for the Beavers as Geordie McDougall (2B, Fr., Lumsden, Saskatchewan) had two as well. 

Minot State will play a doubleheader tomorrow, April 2, against Augustana with the first game scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. 

About Minot State
Minot State University is a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and NCAA Division II offering 14 men's and women's varsity intercollegiate athletics programs. The NSIC is a premier NCAA DII, 16-member conference featuring teams in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. The Beavers are the only public NCAA Division II institution in the state of North Dakota.