MINOT, N.D. – After splitting its first two games with Wayne State College yesterday afternoon on the first day of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference baseball, Minot State was unable to come away with a win in two games Sunday afternoon.

Defense played a big part in the losses on Sunday. The Beavers committed four errors in the first game of the day as they fell to the Wildcats 10-4. They committed three errors in the second game of the day, a 14-2 loss.

"We have to play better defense," Minot State head coach Brock Weppler said.

Jesse Goertzen (Jr., P/INF, Steinbach, Manitoba) got the start for the Beavers in the first game of the day and was only able to make it through 3 2/3 innings. He finished his outing giving up five runs, but none of the runs were earned.

The Beavers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning but their only lead of the game was short lived as the Wildcats scored three runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. They went on to scored seven more runs before the Beavers added two runs in the sixth inning when the game was already out of reach.

Similarly to the first game of the day, Minot State was the first team to put a run on the scoreboard as they got out to a 1-0 lead and held that lead until the third inning.

A pair of five-run innings for the Wildcats in the third and fourth innings doomed the Beavers despite tacking on another run in the fifth inning.

Nicholas Hammerl (Sr., 2B/SS, West Peoria, Ill.) and Jordan Schulz (So., OF, Strasbourg, Saskatchewan) each recorded two hits for the Beavers in the first game of the day.

Kyle Williamson (Fr., OF, Aurora, Ore.) was the only Beaver to record multiple hits in the second game of the day. He ended the game with two hits and his day with two extra-base hits.

The losses move Minot State's record to 4-11 overall and 1-3 in the NSIC.

Next weekend the Beavers will travel to Marshall, Minn. for a four-game series with Southwest Minnesota State. The teams split a pair of games during their trip to Tucson, Ariz.