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Photo by: Kayden Kircher
Five Homers Powers St. Cloud State Baseball to Senior Day Win over UMary
5/2/2026 7:48:00 PM | Baseball
Bello, Castro each have two homers to lead offense
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Baseball (21-28, 17-19 NSIC) closed out the 2026 season with a commanding 12-3 win over UMary (34-16, 27-10 NSIC) on Senior Day. The Huskies scored five times in the first and never looked back, hitting five home runs to close out the season with a win.
The Huskies turned to one of their longest tenured players, redshirt senior Cael Kolacia (Fort Dodge, Iowa), to make the start on the mound. Kolacia induced a double play and recorded a strikeout in the first inning to hold the Marauders off the board.
In the bottom of the first, redshirt junior Hayden Konkol (Denmark, Wis.) was hit by a pitch to open the inning. Redshirt senior Eric Bello (Manati, Puerto Rico) followed with a laser over the left field wall for a two-run homer to open the scoring. Junior Wilmis Castro (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) then hit a long solo home run to center field, giving the Huskies back-to-back home runs for the second time this season. The offense wasn't done there, as redshirt senior Liam Moreno (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and senior Wyatt Tweet (Russell, Manitoba) followed with a single and walk. Both runners moved up on a sacrifice bunt from redshirt freshman Max Robinson (St. Michael, Minn.) and would score on a wild pitch and a passed ball to make the score 5-0 SCSU.
In the second, the Huskies would add on to their lead. With one out, Bello came up for his second at bat and launched his second home run of the game, a solo shot to left-center field to make it 6-0.
UMary would get on the board and cut the lead in half in the top of the third. A walk, hit-by-pitch, and single loaded the bases with just one out. A sacrifice fly and two straight singles followed to drive home three Marauder runs.
It would take the Huskies one inning to get those three runs back. In the bottom of the fourth, Castro led off with a double and moved to third on a Moreno single to right field. Tweet then lined a sharp single to the left-center field gap to score Castro, and Moreno followed him home when the ball was misplayed in the outfield. A walk and hit-by-pitch loaded the bases with two outs, bringing up sophomore Austin Baumhover (Van Meter, Iowa). Baumhover was the second hit-by-pitch victim of the inning, earning an RBI and forcing in Tweet to increase the Huskies lead to 9-3.
In the fifth, Konkol led off with a long drive to left field that cleared the wall for the fourth home run of the day for SCSU, driving the Huskies into double digits and a 10-3 lead. That lead would stay until the seventh, when Castro hit his second solo home run of the day with a blast out to center field.
The final Huskies run would score in the seventh, as Baumhover walked and moved around the bases on a groundout and two wild pitches. Four Huskies pitchers – senior Eamonn Mulhern (Madison, Wis.), senior Connor Doolittle (Littleton, Col.), redshirt junior Nolan Kahle (Waukesha, Wis.), and redshirt freshman Conner Larson (Jordan, Minn.) – combined to record the final 18 outs while holding UMary scoreless.
TOP HUSKIES
The Huskies turned to one of their longest tenured players, redshirt senior Cael Kolacia (Fort Dodge, Iowa), to make the start on the mound. Kolacia induced a double play and recorded a strikeout in the first inning to hold the Marauders off the board.
In the bottom of the first, redshirt junior Hayden Konkol (Denmark, Wis.) was hit by a pitch to open the inning. Redshirt senior Eric Bello (Manati, Puerto Rico) followed with a laser over the left field wall for a two-run homer to open the scoring. Junior Wilmis Castro (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) then hit a long solo home run to center field, giving the Huskies back-to-back home runs for the second time this season. The offense wasn't done there, as redshirt senior Liam Moreno (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and senior Wyatt Tweet (Russell, Manitoba) followed with a single and walk. Both runners moved up on a sacrifice bunt from redshirt freshman Max Robinson (St. Michael, Minn.) and would score on a wild pitch and a passed ball to make the score 5-0 SCSU.
In the second, the Huskies would add on to their lead. With one out, Bello came up for his second at bat and launched his second home run of the game, a solo shot to left-center field to make it 6-0.
UMary would get on the board and cut the lead in half in the top of the third. A walk, hit-by-pitch, and single loaded the bases with just one out. A sacrifice fly and two straight singles followed to drive home three Marauder runs.
It would take the Huskies one inning to get those three runs back. In the bottom of the fourth, Castro led off with a double and moved to third on a Moreno single to right field. Tweet then lined a sharp single to the left-center field gap to score Castro, and Moreno followed him home when the ball was misplayed in the outfield. A walk and hit-by-pitch loaded the bases with two outs, bringing up sophomore Austin Baumhover (Van Meter, Iowa). Baumhover was the second hit-by-pitch victim of the inning, earning an RBI and forcing in Tweet to increase the Huskies lead to 9-3.
In the fifth, Konkol led off with a long drive to left field that cleared the wall for the fourth home run of the day for SCSU, driving the Huskies into double digits and a 10-3 lead. That lead would stay until the seventh, when Castro hit his second solo home run of the day with a blast out to center field.
The final Huskies run would score in the seventh, as Baumhover walked and moved around the bases on a groundout and two wild pitches. Four Huskies pitchers – senior Eamonn Mulhern (Madison, Wis.), senior Connor Doolittle (Littleton, Col.), redshirt junior Nolan Kahle (Waukesha, Wis.), and redshirt freshman Conner Larson (Jordan, Minn.) – combined to record the final 18 outs while holding UMary scoreless.
TOP HUSKIES
- Wilmis Castro – 4-5, 2 HR, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R
- Eric Bello – 2-5, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
- Hayden Konkol – 2-5, HR, RBI, 2 R
- Wyatt Tweet – 2-3, 2 BB, RBI, 2 R
- The Huskies move to 36-6 against the Marauders all-time.
- SCSU hit five home runs, the most in a single game this season.
- Castro recorded his second career multi-homer game (April 12, 2025, at UMary), finishing the year with a career high 12 home runs.
- Bello recorded his first career multi-homer game.
- Konkol hit his first home run of the season.
- Castro and Moreno both recorded their 20th multi-hit game, tying for the team-lead.
- Baumhover extended his on-base streak to 11 games and scored his 10th run.
- Castro picked up his team-leading 41st and 42nd RBIs.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mulhern, Eamonn (3-2)
L: Hanson, Justin (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Leafgren, Bryce 1
RBI: Leafgren, Bryce 1 ; Griffin, Hank 1 ; Gaffney, Kieran 1
SF: Leafgren, Bryce 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Haney, Kalem 1 ; Butts, Marcus 1 ; Pegors, Isaac 1
HBP: Haney, Kalem 1 ; Butts, Marcus 1 ; Griffin, Hank 1 ; Ramirez, Mikey 1
Batting:
2B: Castro, Wilmis 1
HR: Konkol, Hayden 1 ; Bello, Eric 2 ; Castro, Wilmis 2
RBI: Konkol, Hayden 1 ; Bello, Eric 3 ; Castro, Wilmis 2 ; Tweet, Wyatt 2 ; Baumhover, Austin 1
SH: Robinson, Max 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Konkol, Hayden 2 ; Bello, Eric 2 ; Castro, Wilmis 3 ; Moreno, Liam 2 ; Tweet, Wyatt 2 ; Baumhover, Austin 1
HBP: Konkol, Hayden 1 ; Castro, Wilmis 1 ; Frank, Hayden 1 ; Baumhover, Austin 2
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