Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NEW ULM, Minn. - The Bethany baseball team has had quite a start to the UMAC season at the plate. They've scored at least ten runs in eight of their nine conference tilts and they continued their hot streak Wednesday. Sophomore Drew Quame belted three home runs in the twin bill as the Vikings swept Martin Luther by scores of 16-4 and 11-5.

Bethany didn't waste any time scoring in the opening game. Joe Tuholsky led off with a single and later scored the game's first run as the first four Bethany batters all reached base. Brandyn Olsen and Jordan Grams produced run-scoring hits as BLC crossed the plate five times in the opening frame.

Bethany put another crooked number on the board in the third. Quame hit a one-out homer and Grams delivered another RBI hit as BLC led 7-3 after three.

The Vikings scored four more in the fifth. Reigning UMAC Player of the Week, Adam Geiger, had the inning's big hit with a 2-RBI single. Quame helped put an early end to the game in the seventh when he launched his second home run of the game, a 3-run shot, to give Bethany a 16-4 lead.

Lucas Herd pitched all seven innings, striking out nine, to get his third win of the season.

BLC scored early and often in the second game as well scoring multiple runs in three of the first four innings. Quame, who ended the scoring in the first game with a home run, started the second contest with his third home run of the afternoon, a 2-run dinger, as part of a 5-run second inning.

Someone other than Quame has nailing pitches over the outfield fence on Wednesday. Nick Caldeen hit a 2-run home run in the third to put Bethany up 7-0.

Four Vikings got a pair of hits in the night cap with Tuholsky earning the win on the mound going 7 2/3 innings and striking out eight.

Bethany (12-6, 8-1 in UMAC) begins a 3-game series Friday at Northwestern.