MANKATO, Minn. – Saturday afternoon the Yellowjacket baseball team finished up its Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) series with Bethany Lutheran. After a pitching duel fell in favor of the Vikings on Friday, Superior needed to sweep the twin bill to keep their conference tournament hopes alive.
 
Game one of the doubleheader saw BLC put 17 hits on the board, highlighted by a four-run first and a six-run fifth to defeat the Yellowjackets 13-1 in seven innings. The 'Jackets outhit the Vikings in the second matchup 7-4, but the Vikings came away with the series sweep with a 5-4 decision, completing the series sweep.
 
Game One Notes

• The Yellowjackets scored a run in the top of the first, all starting with a leadoff double from Noah Dagostino (Andover, Minn./Andover) before Trey Sybrant (Saint Michael, Minn./Saint Michael-Albertville) drove him in with a sacrifice fly to center.
• Bethany Lutheran scored four runs off three hits and a Yellowjacket error in their half of the first. The Vikings plated another run in the following frame.
• Superior got a runner in scoring position in the top of the fifth after reaching on an error, but the Vikings drew a pair of strikeouts and a fielder's choice to kill the Yellowjackets' rally.
• Six runs and five hits led the way for Bethany Lutheran in the bottom of the fifth, seeing them lead 13-1.
• Dagostino went 2-4 in the game, serving as the only Yellowjacket with more than a single hit.
• Zach Romans (Saint Michael, Minn./Saint Michael) took the loss, pitching just 0.2 innings with four runs allowed and three hits. Declan Higgins (Minneapolis, Minn./DeLaSalle), alongside Riley Harbaugh (Banks, Ore./Banks), Miles Kay (Albertville, Minn./Saint Michael-Albertville) and Adam Jensen (Brainerd, Minn./Brainerd) also toed the rubber.

 
Game Two Notes

• Josh Pritchard (Surrey, British Columbia/Clayton Heights Secondary) got the start in the third and final game of the series and kept the Vikings out of the hit column until the bottom of the fourth inning. He would pitch 4.1 innings allowing just three hits and one earned run while taking the loss. His record ends at 4-2.
• Superior once again scored first in the contest, as Sybrant and Tanner Voight (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater) garnered back-to-back singles. A wild pitch led to both runners advancing 90 feet before Will Czech (Anoka, Minn./Anoka) hit a sacrifice fly to right.
• A leadoff error came around to bite Superior in the bottom of the third as BLC tied things up.
• BLC scored another in the fourth and three more in the fifth inning to lead 5-1 heading into the sixth.
• Superior fought back in the seventh, beginning with an infield single from Cole Ondrus (Esko, Minn./Esko) and Payton Steiner (Baraboo, Wis./Baraboo) getting plunked. Voight would club a two-RBI double into center field, and Czech would follow with a single to left field. Maxton Howell (Mission Viejo, Calif./Mission Viejo) hit a ball up the middle to plate Voight and bring the Yellowjacket deficit down to just one at 5-4.
• Jordan Trimble (Victorville, Calif./Grandview (Colo.)) singled up the middle in his pinch-hit opportunity in the top of the ninth inning. Czech would single again and send Trimble to second, but a flyout to right field would cap the 2025 season for Superior, falling 5-4 to the Vikings.
• Voight and Czech each went 2-5 in the contest. Voight added two RBI, while Czech and Howell contributed the other two.

 
The Yellowjackets end the 2025 season with an overall record of 18-21.
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