Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Aquinas baseball team plated 13 runs in its two games on Sunday (Mar. 1) in Topeka, Kan., but the Saints were unable to knock off Jamestown in either contest at the Bettis Family Sports Complex. After splitting Saturday's twinbill with the Jimmies, AQ fell on Sunday by scores of 11-8 and 9-5.
 
Jamestown took three of four games over Aquinas to move to 11-3 on the season. The Saints are 3-5 after the weekend series. AQ is slated to start its spring break trip next Monday (Mar. 9) at 1:00 p.m. in New Albany, Ind. against IU-Southeast.
 
Game one saw AQ take a 2-0 lead as Brady Paganelli and Jacob Holt delivered RBI singles in the first inning. Jamestown responded with four runs in the top of the second inning to open a 4-2 edge but the Saints answered back. A leadoff single from Anthony Arnold and consecutive hit-by-pitches loaded the bases for Nick Brzezinski, who promptly unloaded the bases with a grand slam to left field and a 6-4 AQ advantage.
 
The Jimmies added solo runs in the third and fourth innings to tie the score at 6-6 before Aquinas regained an 8-6 edge in the bottom of the sixth. Sean Wing walked with the bases juiced to bring in a run and Nathan Hughes followed with a sacrifice fly and the two-run cushion. 
 
Down to its final at-bat, Jamestown tied the score again at 8-8 with a two-run double, which eventually sent the game to extra innings. In the eighth, the Jimmies posted a three-run double and held AQ off the board for the final 11-8 score.
 
Paganelli and Michael Maher both went 2-for-3, with Maher scoring twice. Brzezinski also scored twice and drove in four runs with his grand slam. 

Colin Smith started on the hill for the Saints and allowed four earned runs in two innings. Hunter Morrison scattered one run on four hits in four innings of strong relief. Tomoya Nakagawa pitched the seventh and Bruce Buurstra was dealt the loss as he was on the hill in the eighth inning. 
 
Game two was scoreless until Jamestown put up a six-run third inning. The Saints would get on the board in the fifth inning with a two-run single from Hughes, making it 6-2. Jamestown answered with three runs in the top of the sixth to take a commanding 9-5 cushion.
 
AQ added a single run in the sixth inning on a Braden Nawrocki RBI groundout. In the seventh, Dane Smitz and Colton Vanderleest opened with back-to-back doubles, making it 9-4. Vanderleest later came home on a run-scoring groundout, but that would be the end of the rally for the Saints, falling in the nightcap by a 9-5 final.
 
The Saints outhit Jamestown in game two, 12-9. 10 different AQ players collected hits, as Kelvin Aracena and Noah Haran each went 2-for-2 and scored a run. Hughes tallied a pair of RBI.
 
Grant Smitz started on the mound for Aquinas and was handed the loss, giving up six runs (three earned) in three innings. Dawson Rabb tossed two hitless innings of relief, while Blake Wright, Cameron Fewless, and Trent Champlin combined to allow only one hit in the final two innings.