NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College baseball team suffered a 1-0 loss to crosstown-rival Carleton College in game one before game two was suspended due to darkness with the score tied at 3-3 after nine innings on Tuesday afternoon at Mel Taube Field.

Carleton (5-12, 2-3 MIAC) strung together three-straight two-out hits in the bottom of the first to score the lone run of the game and got a 15-strikeout three-hit shutout from Kiefer Lord in the opener to spoil a strong start by fifth-year senior Hunter Barber for St. Olaf (8-11, 2-5 MIAC). The Oles were one out away from a 3-2 win in game two before the Knights tied the game at 3-3 on a two-out RBI single.

With the game headed to extra innings, the umpires called the game due to darkness and the game will be completed at a later date. Six of St. Olaf's 11 losses this season have come by a single run and two more have come by two runs.

The Oles are scheduled to host Macalester in a doubleheader on Wednesday, April 20 at 2:30 p.m., although rain is in the forecast.

Carleton 1, St. Olaf 0 | Box Score

St. Olaf could not solve Lord in the opener, as the righthander held the Oles to three hits and two walks while striking out 15 in the complete-game win. Lord entered the game in the top 15 nationally with over 14 strikeouts per nine innings and upped his season total to 59 in 35.0 innings to outduel Barber.

Barber allowed just one run on six hits with three walks and eight strikeouts in the hard-luck loss. The fifth-year senior has allowed two or fewer earned runs in each of his last four starts.

After the Oles left two runners on base in the top of the first, Barber started his afternoon with back-to-back strikeouts, but Carleton strung together three-straight two-out singles to plate the game's only run, scoring on a two-out single by Sam Schur.
Sophomore Sam Lavin started the top of the third with a triple to right center, but Lord struck out the side in the inning to leave the tying run 90 feet away. St. Olaf stranded two runners on base in each of its first three innings at the plate.

Barber worked out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the fifth to keep the Oles' deficit at one run, but Lord retired the final 10 batters of the game to complete the shutout. Jacob Small had three of Carleton's six hits in the game.

St. Olaf 3, Carleton 3 – Suspended after nine innings due to darkness

Statistics for game two are not official until the game is completed at a later date.