DECORAH, Iowa – For the second day in a row, the St. Olaf College baseball team rebounded from a loss in game one with a win in game two to come away with a split of its four-game set at Luther College on Sunday at Luther Baseball Field.

After Luther (6-4) took the opener 4-3 in extra innings on a walk-off solo home run in the eighth, three St. Olaf (4-4) pitchers held the Norse to three hits in a 10-1 victory in game two. Over the two games, seven Ole pitchers combined to hold a Luther offense that entered the day averaging over 10 runs per game to five runs on 12 hits over 15 innings. The second game was shortened to a seven-inning contest after the opener went to extra innings.

St. Olaf will head to the University of Minnesota for a single nine-inning game against the Golden Gophers on Wednesday, March 13 at 3 p.m. at Siebert Field.

Luther 4, St. Olaf 3 (8 inn.) | Box Score

After Luther held a 3-1 lead through five innings, senior Joey Glampe tied the game with a two-run home run in the sixth to help extend the game to extra innings, but Josh Matanich won it for the Norse with a two-out, walk-off home run in the home half of the eighth.

Luther starter Ryan Manternach held St. Olaf hitless until the sixth inning, as the righthander and Blake Jondle limited the Oles to three hits over eight innings for the Norse. Manternach picked up a no-decision after allowing three runs (two earned) on just two hits with one walk and three strikeouts over the first 6.0 innings. Jondle collected the win with two innings of shutout relief.

Four St. Olaf pitchers kept Luther to four runs on nine hits over the eight-inning game. Junior Jacob Fickenscher worked the first 2.0 innings, allowing one run on three hits with three walks and a strikeout. Senior Derek Hansen got four outs in relief in the fifth and sixth innings before first year Kieran Haaland worked the final 2.1 innings. Haaland was saddled with the loss giving up Matanich's home run, which was the first run allowed by the first year through his first 7.0 innings of work.

The Oles put a run on the board without recording a hit in the top of the first. Junior Evan Hammonds reached on a two-base error to start the game and eventually came around on a ground out off the bat of sophomore Breckin Hadley. Fickenscher left the bases full of Norse in the bottom of the first and left two more Luther runners in scoring position in the second, although the hosts did score a run in the frame to tie the game.

Luther took advantage of a walk, a bunt single, and an error in the bottom of the fourth to score a pair of runs and take a 3-1 lead, although junior David Scheil avoided further damage by leaving the bases loaded. Senior Sam Lavin broke up Manternach's no-hit bid in the top of the sixth with a one-out double to left and, two batters later, Glampe tied the game with a two-run home run off the top of the fence in right for his second home run in as many games.

The game stayed tied at 3-3 until Matanich blasted the first pitch over the wall in right in the eighth to win it for Luther.

St. Olaf 10, Luther 1 | Box Score

First year Nick Levasseur, first year Carter Follman, and senior Brock Brumley combined to limit Luther to one run on three hits in the final game of the four-game set. St. Olaf backed the trio with four multi-run innings and took advantage of five Luther errors in the game to come away with the split.

In his first collegiate start, Levasseur yielded just one hit over 3.0 shutout innings with two walks and one strikeout. In his collegiate debut, Follman collected the win after giving up just one run on two hits with one walk and two strikeouts over 3.0 innings of relief. Brumley struck out two in a 1-2-3 seventh.

Seven Oles had either one or two hits offensively in the win. Lavin reached base three times by going 2-for-4 with a walk and two RBI, while junior Matthew Kulesa also knocked in two runs. Sophomores Mason Buck and Brendan Goldman combined for three hits and five runs scored.

St. Olaf got all the scoring it would need in the second inning with three runs on just one hit, benefiting from two Luther errors and three walks in the frame. Goldman scored the first run of the game after reaching on an error and eventually coming in on a passed ball. Lavin added a two-out, two-run single later in the inning.

Kulesa delivered a two-run double off the wall in center field in the third to make it a 5-0 game after Goldman was hit by a pitch and Buck singled. The Oles tacked on two more runs in the fifth on a double steal and a Luther error and capitalized on another Norse error and a balk to put two more runs on the board in the sixth.

Luther got its lone run of the game on a double-play grounder in the sixth before sophomore Christopher Woodside knocked in a run with a ground out in the next half inning. St. Olaf outhit Luther by a 9-3 margin in the game to claim the win despite leaving 12 runners on base.