WINONA, Minn. – Despite some outstanding pitching out of the bullpen, the University of Sioux Falls Baseball Team (3-15, 3-5 NSIC) dropped a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference doubleheader to Winona State, 5-1 and 4-3 in 13 innings at Loughrey Field on Friday.

USF, which will host Southwest Minnesota State in a doubleheader Tuesday at Sioux Falls Stadium, dropped three of four games to WSU the past two days. In both games WSU jumped to a lead and never trailed to posting wins. In game two, USF rallied from down 3-0 to tie the game before falling in extra innings. Spencer Dokken and Anthony Reese had standout outing out of the pen, allowing one run on 10 hits in 11 1/3 innings.

Josh Rehwaldt led USF's offense with five hits in 10 at bats as he pushed his season average to .429 Dylan Gavin, who is now hitting .294, added three hits for USF, which is now hitting .248 on the season. Freshman shortstop Grant Lung had three hits in 10 at bats with an RBI.

Dokken had another solid series in relief, allowing one run on four hits in 7 1/3 innings. The Cougars also allowed just nine runs in 20 innings today, dropping the team earned run average to 5.60. In the bullpen today, the Cougars worked 15 2/3 innings with eight strikeouts while allowing just 10 hits and two runs.

Game 1 – Winona State 5 Sioux Falls 1
With a four-run third inning burst, WSU took a game one decision over Sioux Falls, 5-1. Dillon Whittaker moved to 2-0 with the victory. He scattered seven hits over five innings with six strikeouts and two walks. Nicolas Herold picked up the save by throwing two innings of two-hit baseball. WSU scored four runs in the third inning and padded their lead with a tally in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Stuart Maes dropped to 0-4 as he allowed four runs on four hits with three walks and two strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings. Christian Lazar stopped a WSU rally by retiring the final hitter of the fourth inning. Matt Graham appeared in relief and allowed no hits and no runs in two inning. Jackson Olson worked 2/3 of an inning and allowing three hits and a run. Keenahn Coyle finished as he allowed no hits in 1/3 of an inning.

USF was led on offense by Josh Rehwaldt with three hits in four at bats. Grant Lung had two hits and the only RBI for USF. Meanwhile Rob Johnson, Dylan Gavin, Connor Merriam and Alex Robinson all had base hits. Both Rehwaldt and Robinson added stolen bases.

Game 2 – Winona State 4 Sioux Falls 3, 13 innings
The Cougars rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie the game in the sixth inning but dropped a 4-3 decision to Winona State in 13 innings. WSU's Zac Stange hit one-out walk off single to give the Warriors the extra inning decision.

After Alex Loosbrock, who did not figure in the decision, started and gave up three hits, three runs and walked two hitters, freshman Anthony Reese came out of the bullpen to shut down the WSU attack. He worked 5 2/3 innings and allowed six hits but no runs while striking out three hitters. Spencer Dokken (0-1) replaced Reese and was the hard luck loser. He allowed just four hits and one run in 6 2/3 innings with five strikeouts. He worked out of a bases loaded no out jam in the 10^th inning with a ground out, strikeout and pop out. However, WSU was finally able to push a run across off Dokken in the 13th frame.

Austin Savary started and allowed three runs on six hits with six strikeouts through six innings. Jacob Watzka (1-0) picked up his first win, going seven innings and allowing just two hits with 11 strikeouts.

After USF failed to score in the first, WSU built on the momentum of their game one win by putting up three runs on three hits before a batter was retired.

The Cougars had two hits through five innings before rallying to tie the game with three runs on four hits and an error by WSU in the sixth inning. With one out in the frame, Brent Jarvis and Josh Rehwaldt recorded base hits. Jarvis, who took third on the Rehwaldt base knock, scored on a bunt single by Dylan Gavin. Connor Merriam's sacrifice bunt scored Rehwaldt. Then, Matthew Minnick followed with a single and Gavin scored the tying run.

After that surge by USF, neither team scored from the seventh through 12^th innings as Dokken nor Watzka battled, working out various jams. In the 13^th, Derek Martin drew a lead-off walk and advanced on Nick Nalewanski's base hit. Stange ended the game and gave Dokken a hard luck loss with a hit to centerfield.