Saturday, February 24
Colorado Springs, Colo.
1:00 P.M. CT
St. Cloud State
at
UC Colorado Springs
St. Cloud State Baseball Heads to Colorado for Four Games
2/23/2024 3:28:00 PM | Baseball
Huskies to play UC Colorado Springs and CSU Pueblo Feb. 24-26
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Baseball heads to Colorado for four games against UC Colorado Springs and CSU Pueblo. The Huskies will begin with a three-game set against UC Colorado Springs on Feb. 24-25, followed by a single game against CSU Pueblo on Monday, Feb. 26.
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Game 1 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Saturday, Feb. 24 / 1:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 2 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Sunday, Feb. 25 / 12:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 3 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Sunday, Feb. 25 / 3:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 1 vs. CSU Pueblo – Monday, Feb. 26 / 12:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
TUPY NAMED NSIC PITCHER OF THE WEEK
St. Cloud State Baseball redshirt junior Luke Tupy (New Prague, Minn.) was named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Pitcher of the Week after Tupy led the Huskies to a 6-2 win in Sunday's series-opener of a four-game sweep over Southwest Minnesota State.
Tupy pitched six innings while allowing only two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out nine Mustangs. The Husky junior's nine punch outs of SMSU are the second-most of any NSIC pitcher this season, trailing only teammate Payton VanBeck's 10 on Feb. 4.
Tupy earned his first win of the season and 12th of his career while reaching nine strike outs for the seventh time in his career. On the season, Tupy is 1-0 on the season with a 4.30 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, .200 opponent batting average and an NSIC-leading 19 strike outs.
GAME NOTES FROM SERIES WITH SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE
Notes from SCSU's conference-opening sweep against SMSU:
FOLLOW THE HUSKIES
Game 1 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Saturday, Feb. 24 / 1:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 2 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Sunday, Feb. 25 / 12:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 3 vs. UC Colorado Springs – Sunday, Feb. 25 / 3:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
Game 1 vs. CSU Pueblo – Monday, Feb. 26 / 12:00 p.m. CT / Live Stream / Live Stats
TUPY NAMED NSIC PITCHER OF THE WEEK
St. Cloud State Baseball redshirt junior Luke Tupy (New Prague, Minn.) was named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Pitcher of the Week after Tupy led the Huskies to a 6-2 win in Sunday's series-opener of a four-game sweep over Southwest Minnesota State.
Tupy pitched six innings while allowing only two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out nine Mustangs. The Husky junior's nine punch outs of SMSU are the second-most of any NSIC pitcher this season, trailing only teammate Payton VanBeck's 10 on Feb. 4.
Tupy earned his first win of the season and 12th of his career while reaching nine strike outs for the seventh time in his career. On the season, Tupy is 1-0 on the season with a 4.30 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, .200 opponent batting average and an NSIC-leading 19 strike outs.
GAME NOTES FROM SERIES WITH SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE
Notes from SCSU's conference-opening sweep against SMSU:
- Top Performances & Notes from Game 1 – 6-2 win:
- Junior Sawyer Smith (Somers, Wis.) – 2-3, HR, 3 RBI, R
- Smith hit his first home run of the season and fifth of his career in the sixth inning. His three RBI matched a season-high before he eclipsed that mark in the second game.
- Smith also pitched a scoreless seventh inning with two strike outs to close out the Mustangs.
- Graduate Cal James (Buffalo, Minn.) – 2-2, 2 RBI, 2 R
- James hit safely for the seventh time in eight games with his second consecutive two-hit game. It also marked the second time this season he has recorded two RBI, matching his season-opening performance against Southern New Hampshire on Feb. 2.
- Redshirt junior Luke Tupy (New Prague, Minn.) – W, 6.0 IP, 2 R, 6 H, 9 K
- Tupy earned his first win of the season and 12th of his career while reaching nine strike outs for the seventh time in his career.
- Tupy's six innings pitched marked his longest outing of the season in his third start.
- Senior Mitchell Gumbko (Ada, Mich.) – 1-3, 1 R, extends hit streak to seven games.
- Gumbko extended his hit streak to seven games to open the 2024 season and stole his fifth base of the season.
- Top Performances & Notes from Game 2 – 12-0 win:
- Smith – 3-5, HR, 4 RBI, 2 R
- Smith launched his second home run of the season and sixth of his career in the ninth inning. His four RBI are the second-most he has produced in a game, trailing only his six RBI vs. Arkansas Monticello last season (Feb. 11, 2023).
- Redshirt sophomore Cael Kolacia (Fort Dodge, Iowa) – W, 6.1 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 2 K
- Kolacia earned his second win of the season with his best performance of the season, pitching 6.1 scorless innings while only allowing five hits and three walks with two strike outs.
- Senior Ben Clapp (Maple Lake, Minn.) – 2-3, R
- Clapp had his second two-hit game of the season after logging two hits in the season-opener against Southern New Hampshire on Feb. 2.
- Freshman Blaine Guthrie (Emerald, Wis.) – 1-3, 2 RBI
- Guthrie recorded his first two RBI performance of his career, knocking in his third run of the season.
- Gumbko – 1-3, extends hit streak to eight games
- Gumbko extended his hit streak to eight games to open the 2024 season.
- Redshirt sophomore Brayden Jacobson (West Fargo, N.D.) stole his third base of the season.
- Senior Grady Fuchs (Paynesville, Minn.) logged his third scoreless appearance of the season out of the bullpen, pitching 1.2 IP with one strike out.
- Redshirt freshman Noah Kahle (Waukesha, Wis.) made his season debut, pitching a scoreless ninth inning.
- Top Performances & Notes from Game 3 – 3-1 win:
- Senior Payton VanBeck (Elrosa, Minn.) – W, 7.0 IP, R, 4 H, 2 K
- VanBeck logged his longest outing as a Husky with his first career complete game, scattering four hits and two walks while only allowing one run.
- In three starts this season, VanBeck now has a 1.93 ERA with 17 strike outs.
- Clapp – 2-3, 2B, 3 RBI
- Clapp's three RBI matched his career-best as a Husky, a mark he's now reached three times with the most recent occurrence in a April 27, 2023 game at Bemidji State.
- Clapp's two hits in the game marked his third multi-hit game this season.
- James – 2-3, R
- Gumbko – 1-2, extends hit streak to nine games
- Gumbko extended his hit streak to nine games to open the 2024 season and raised his batting average to .364 on the season.
- Top Performances & Notes from Game 4 – 14-2 win:
- James – 2-4, 2B, 4 RBI, 2 R, BB
- James recorded his season-high in RBI, moving his season total to nine RBI. His multi-hit game marks his fourth in the last five games.
- Redshirt junior Garrett Bevacqua (Carlsbad, Calif.) – 3-5, 3 RBI, R
- Bevacqua had a season-best three RBI in the game.
- Senior Jack Habeck (Appleton, Wis.) – W, 6.0 IP, 2 R, 5 H, 4 K
- Habeck had his longest outing of the season and recorded a season-best four strike outs while lowering his season ERA from 24.75 to 11.70.
- Junior Ethan Navratil (Albany, Minn.) – 1-5, 3B, 2 RBI
- Navratil's third inning triple was his first career triple while his pair of RBI gives him 80 career RBI.
- Senior Drew Beier (Foley, Min.) – 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R, BB
- SCSU turned three double plays in the game.
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