The Northwest Missouri State baseball team lost both games of a double header Saturday to Southwest Baptist as they lost in the seventh inning in game one, 5-4, and then fell 11-7 in game two.

SBU got on the board in the top of the second inning with one run, which was answered by Northwest who plated a run of their own when Steven Garber drove in Zac Ferreira.

Ferreira put his team up 2-1 in the third inning when he knocked in Paul Johnson from second base.

Northwest added two more runs in the fifth inning to go up 4-1, while Ryker Fox was still going strong from the hill. Fox, who gave up three hits through six innings, did not factor into the final decision.

Brian Schmiedt relieved Fox in the seventh, and would later be tagged with the loss as SBU was able to mount a five run seventh inning comeback to go up 5-4. Northwest failed in their comeback attempt in the bottom half as they dropped game one.

Game two was a different story as the two teams combined for 23 hits and 18 runs.

Garber and Austin Wulff both knocked in an RBI in the first and second inning respectively to go up 2-0 heading into the third.

The SBU bats came out in the fourth inning as they plated five runs on six hits. They would add three more runs in the fifth, one in the six and two runs in the top of the seventh.

Northwest entered the bottom of the seventh with comeback on their mind as they trailed 11-2.

Four hits and five runs later they fell a little short as they dropped game two, 11-7.

Northwest moves their season record to 11-8, 8-4 and will play the final game of the four game series against SBU Sunday. The game was originally scheduled for a noon start, but has been pushed back to 2 p.m. due to inclement weather in the morning.

— Northwest Sports Information —