NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College baseball team dropped both ends of it non-conference doubleheader to UW-La Crosse, falling by scores of 5-1 and 7-5 on Wednesday afternoon at Mark Almli Field.

UW-La Crosse (19-7) got a complete game from Owen Deprez in game one and held off St. Olaf (9-18) in game two to complete the sweep. The Eagles received seven points in the balloting of this week's American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) NCAA Division III Coaches Poll.

The Oles will return to action to complete their suspended game at Carleton College at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16. The two teams are tied at 8-8 in the bottom of the sixth in a game that originally started on Thursday, April 9.

UW-La Crosse 5, St. Olaf 1 | Box Score

Deprez tossed a complete game for UW-La Crosse in the opener, holding St. Olaf to one run on nine hits with no walks and six strikeouts. The Eagles staked Deprez to an early led with two runs in the top of the first and held a 5-0 lead before the Oles got on the board in the sixth.

In his first appearance of the season and the longest appearance of his career, junior Joey Haas limited UW-La Crosse to one unearned run on two hits with three walks and two strikeouts over 4.0 innings of relief to keep St. Olaf in the game. Offensively, junior Cole Pleimann and senior Brendan Goldman picked up two hits apiece, as seven Oles recorded at least one hit in the loss.

The visitors gave Deprez all the run support he needed with two runs in the top of the first before adding a single run in the fourth and two more in the sixth to build a 5-0 cushion. St. Olaf plated its lone run of the game in the bottom of the sixth, as first year Lucas Pusterla led off with a double, got to third on a wild pitch with one out, and scored on a ground out by Pleimann for the final run of the game.

UW-La Crosse 7, St. Olaf 5 | Box Score

UW-La Crosse scored five runs over the first two innings before St. Olaf tied the game at 5-5 with a four-run fifth. The Eagles broke the tie with a run in the seventh and added another in the eighth to complete the sweep.

Four relievers combined to hold UW-La Crosse to two runs over the final 7.0 innings for St. Olaf. First years Parker Kruglik and Nolan Nelson each worked 2.0 scoreless innings, with Kruglik doing so in his collegiate debut. First year Tate Williams added a 1-2-3 top of the ninth as well.

Seniors Frank Lavin and Henry Black combined for five of the Oles' seven hits in the loss. Lavin was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI, while Black reached base three times by going 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, a run scored, and an RBI.

After UW-La Crosse put up a three-spot in the top of the first, St. Olaf got one of the runs back in the bottom of the inning. Black doubled with one out before scoring from third on a two-out single by Lavin. The Eagles strung together three two-out hits, including a triple and a double, to score twice in the top of the second to increase their lead to 5-1.

UW-La Crosse maintained the 5-1 lead until the Oles scored four times in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game. After a walk and a hit batter put two runners on with one out, a throwing error, a sacrifice fly, and a throwing error brought St. Olaf within in a run. Junior Kanen Kreafle followed with a solo home run, his fifth of the season, to tie it up.

A two-out wild pitch pushed across the go-ahead run for UW-La Crosse in the top of the seventh before a pair of St. Olaf errors led to another run an inning later. Down by two, St. Olaf got two-out singles from senior Jack Pettit and Black in the bottom of the ninth before the Eagles got the final out.