Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 It was all or basically nothing for the Hamline baseball team Monday night at Midway Stadium. The Pipers scored 18 of their 20 runs for the night in just three of the 12 innings they spent at the plate. But it was more than enough to extend the team's winning streak to six games in a row with 9-3 and 11-8 decisions over Carleton before a happy prime time crowd.

In the opener, Dan Ellefson was excellent on the mound and at the plate. Ellefson, Mark Radmacher and Jordan Rubbelke (pictured) combined to go 7-for-12 with six runs scored and five RBI. The trip were part of the two big innings the Pipers had in Game 1 -- a four run first and a five run sixth. In both cases, HU was responding to some Carleton offense. The Knights had scored in the top of the first but six of the first seven HU hitters reached base in the bottom of the inning for a 4-1 lead. Carleton pecked away at Ellefson, closing within 4-3 in the sixth. The Pipers had another big response with five hits in the bottom of the inning (Radmacher, Rubelke and Harley Thompson had doubles) and the game was theirs. 

Ellefson pitched a CG six-hitter to improve his won-loss mark to 4-1.

The second game was tied at 1 when Hamline came to the plate in the bottom of the third. Before the inning would end, the Pipers
would do the following:

• Send 14 hitters to the plate
• Bang out seven hits, receive two walks and a hit batter and benefit from an error on a bunt
• Score a season high nine runs

In fact, the first 13 hitters reached base in some shape or form. Radmacher, who leads the league in Slugging Percentage (.770) and is second in Batting Average (.432), had a pair of run scoring singles and Joe Rubbelke added a two RBI hit in the outburst.

The 10-1 lead looked safe. And it was ... for one inning. Then the Knights, who entered with a team batting average of .322, exploded for seven runs of their own off two HU pitchers. But that was as close as Carleton would get. Rannon Arch gave up three hits but no runs in the last two innings. Chris Zeller , who continues to impress at third base, chipped in with a timely RBI single to end the scoring. 

Michael Robohm (1-0)  went the first four inning to get the win and Arch earned his third save. 

Hamline has outscored its opponents, 46-21 in the six-game skein that has raised the overall won-loss standard to 19-7.

The nature of the MIAC schedule, however, is there will be little time to dwell on prime time success. The Pipers, now 6-4 in MIAC play, travel to Winona Tuesday to engage St. Mary's (4-6, 13-12) in their fifth doubleheader in as many days. Hamline enters the games in a tie with Bethel for fifth place but just one game behind a triumvirate of teams at 5-3. They will face one of those teams -- Augsburg -- Thursday at Parade Stadium in Minneapolis.