Jacob Hadaway allowed just one run and one hit over eight innings while Noah Paper and Devon Harms drove in one run each, as the Buena Vista baseball team began its final home series of the year with a thrilling 2-1 victory over Simpson College on Friday night on what was a frigid night for baseball.

Game time temperature was hovering right around 40 degrees with a light rain earlier in the afternoon, playing conditions weren't ideal but both teams battled through.

Hadaway got in a bit of a jam in the second when he allowed his only hit of the game followed by one of his three walks in the game.  After a sacrifice bunt moved runners to second and third with one out, Hadaway threw a wild pitch that the runner slid home just ahead of his tag off the throw back from Harms.  After a second walk, Hadaway got a fly out and strikeout to end the threat.

Ethan McHenry singled through the left side to lead off the home half and moved to second two batters later after a ground out by Peyton Renning.  Noah Paper then singled back up the middle and McHenry raced around and beat the throw home to tie things at 1-1.

From there, both pitchers got in a groove with Hadaway retiring 15 straight batters going back to the final two outs of the second.  He didn't allow another base runner until a one-out walk in the seventh, but BVU erased it on a 4-6-3 double play.

Porter Sartor singled with one out in the bottom half and then stole second.  Harms lined a single to center that scored Sartor  giving the Beavers their first lead of the contest.

Hadaway worked around a one-out hit-by-pitch in the eighth with a strikeout and ground out before giving way to Dalton Mason in the ninth.  Mason came on and worked a perfect final inning, including one strikeout, en route to his IIAC-best sixth save of the year.

Hadaway struck out five in the game and moves his season record to 5-3 overall and records his 16th career victory which moves him up into a tie for eighth on the program's all-time wins list.

Eight of the nine starters for BVU recorded a hit in the contest as BVU outhit the Storm, 8-1.

Buena Vista improves to 20-13 overall (11-7 IIAC) and handed the Storm their 13th straight loss.  The two teams will wrap up the series with a doubleheader on Saturday at 1:00pm.  Temperatures are forecasted to be in the mid-40's with winds gusting to 20-25mph.  The games will be the final home games in the career of 11 BVU seniors.