Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MOORHEAD, Minn. (Apr. 13, 2025) - The bats were alive and well for the Buena Vista baseball team throughout Sunday's non-conference doubleheader at Concordia-M'head as the Beavers cruised to a doubleheader sweep of the Cobbers by scores of 7-2 and 14-1.

Freshmen Kaden Struck continued his torrid start to his collegiate career as he was involved with six of the seven runs scored in game one and then helped break the game open in game two. He put BVU on the board first in the opener when he drove in a run despite reaching on an error by the first baseman. Then in the third, he singled home Drew Taylor to give the Beavers the lead back at 2-1 and later scored on a wild pitch that made it 3-1. In the fifth, he had a 2-run single and scored later in the inning on a sacrifice fly from junior Connor Zegar that made it a 6-1 cushion. Zegar then drove in the team's final run in the seventh on an RBI single that scored senior Drew Taylor.

The Cobbers scratched across a run in the bottom of the seventh but stranded a runner to end the game.

Struck was 2-for-4 in the game with four RBI and two runs scored. Drew Taylor finished 2-for-2 with a hit-bny-pitch and scored four times.

Senior Morgan Smith improved to 5-0 on the season while notching his 21st career victory. The right hander allowed only one run and scattered five hits while striking out five. Freshman Dylan Johnson came on and didn't allow a hit over the final two innings while allowing only one run and walking two.

It was all BVU from the start in the nightcap. Drew Taylor had an RBI double and sophomore Jake Eddie added an RBI single in the first inning to give the Beavers the early 2-0 lead. It jumped to 7-0 after two innings, highlighted by the first career grand slam from Struck after senior Joel Garcia doubled home a run moments earlier. Then in the fifth, it was Garcia coming through yet again by blasting his team-leading seventh home run of the season to extend the lead to 10-1.

Senior Jaxon Van Pelt got in on the hit barrage in the sixth by scoring a bases clearing 3-run double in the sixth inning that made it 13-1 before BVU added one final run in the seventh.

Garcia led the way by going 4-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored. Struck was 3-for-5 with a career-high four RBI and two runs scored. Both Taylor's, along with Eddie and senior Tegan Bock, tallied two hits apiece with Bock and the Taylor's also scoring two runs each.

It was more than enough run support from senior Mark Eddie, who tossed five innings, allowed just one run and three hits while striking out a career-high 13 batters and walking only one. Koleson Evans and Logan Lape-Brinkman each pitched one hitless inning to close the door, and combining for three strikeouts.

Buena Vista improves to 21-6 on the year and will host Hamline University in a single nine-inning non-conference game on Wednesday night at 6 p.m.