Trevor Lubking picked up a pair of pitching victories, one in relief and one as a starter, as Pacific Lutheran swept a Monday afternoon non-conference baseball doubleheader from the visiting Saint Martin's Saints.

The opening game went 12 innings before the Lutes pulled out a 5-4 victory. The second contest, scheduled for nine innings, was shortened to eight by darkness and ended in a 12-1 PLU victory.

Pacific Lutheran is now 15-9 for the season, while Saint Martin's falls to 3-29.

Game One - PLU 5, Saint Martin's 4 (12 innings)

Lubking, PLU's sixth pitcher in this game, entered entered with a runner on and no outs in the top of the 12th inning and struck out two to get the Lutes out of the inning.

In the bottom of the 12th, Carson McCord led off with a walk and moved up a base on Drew Oord's one-out single through the left side of the infield. Lubking drew a walk to load the bases, and the winning run scored on what turned out to be Collin Nilson's fielder's choice line drive to center field. The ball landed for what would normally have been a single, but the throw to third forced out the runner there. Nonetheless, the winning run scored, giving PLU the opener.

Pacific Lutheran scored single runs in the first and second with Curtis Wildung and Tanner Bogart driving in the runs.

Saint Martin's scored twice, including a leadoff homer by Chandler Tracy, to tie the game in the eighth inning, forcing extra innings.

Bobby Twedt, whose single tied it in the eighth, hit a two-run double to center field to put the visitors up 4-2 in the 10th, but the Lutes rallied to tie it with two of their own. Nicholas Hall led off with a single and moved to third on a double by Carson McCord, and they scored on Wildung's opposite field double down the left field line.

That set up the winning rally in the 12th inning.

Pacific Lutheran finished with nine hits, led by Wildung with a single and double and three RBI.

Game Two - PLU 12, Saint Martin's 1 (8 innings)

Still warm from his relief appearance in the opening contest, Lubking allowed only two hits and a walk while striking out eight in five innings of work. Cory Nelson worked the final three innings to earn the save, his first of the season.

The Lutes scored once in the first, four times in the second, and one more time in the third to take a 6-0 lead through three innings. They added another run in the fifth and closed out their scoring with a five-run sixth inning.

PLU collected a total of 11 hits in the game, including two apiece by Nicholas Hall, McCord and Drew Oord. Both Hall, the leadoff hitter, and Jacob Olsufka stole two bases and scored three runs. Hall was joined by Daniel Altchech, McCord and Wildung with two RBI apiece.

Collin Nilson belted his first homer of the year leadinig off the sixth inning.

The Saints' only run came on a two-out home run down the right field line by Chandler Tracy. He and Travis Shaw both had two of the team's eight hits.

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