WAVERLY, Iowa (Apr.19, 2026) - The Buena Vista baseball team was swept in a doubleheader at Wartburg College on Sunday to close out the three-game weekend series against the Knights. BVU was shutout 5-0 in the opening game before suffering a 13-3 (8 inn.) in the finale.
The Knights pushed across single runs in each of the first two innings of game one to take a 2-0 lead before scoring three times in the fourth inning for the final runs. BVU had the game's only two extra-base hits off doubles from
Benjamin Byington and
Dylan Johnson. Wartburg stranded eight runners in the game while the Beavers left six on base.
Byington was 2-for-4 overall with junior
Jake Eddie and sophomore
Jack Dahlager also chipped in with one single apiece.
Freshman
Kalab Kuhl made the start on the mound and would suffer the loss. The lefthander tossed 3.2 innings and allowed five runs (three earned) on seven hits. He walked four batters and struck out only two. Junior
Koleson Evans came on in relief and was lights out yet again, striking out five and walking none over 4.1 perfect innings. In 22.0 innings pitched during conference play this season, Evans has now struck out 28 batters and walked only one while posting a 2.05 ERA.
BVU jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning of game two when two runners scored on an error by the centerfielder. The lead was short-lived, however, as Wartburg came right back in the bottom of the frame to score three times. The Knights scratched across a run in the fourth to make it 4-2, and after BVU got that run back in the fifth on an RBI single from
Jack Schmaltz, the Knights used a big five-run bottom of the fifth to go in front 9-3 before adding one more in the sixth and three more in the eighth to wrap things up.
Junior
Jake Eddie went 2-for-4 with a triple and a run scored while freshman
Grant Preuss was 2-for-3.
Dan Meis (1-1) allowed four runs (two earned) and five hits over 3.1 innings and would suffer the loss. Sophomore
Dylan Johnson was roughed up for five runs on five hits while issuing a pair of walks in his one inning.
Buena Vista now sits at 9-25 overall (5-15 A-R-C) and plays a single game at Nebraska Wesleyan on Tuesday, Apr. 21, starting at 6 p.m.
