FRESHMAN FISBECK CLUTCH IN WOLVES' SWEEP
OF MINNESOTA-MORRIS

April 5, 2002

O-Town connection - NSU's Owen Olson connects on a pitch during the first game of Northern's doubleheader with Minnesota-Morris Friday.

Freshman first baseman Wesley Fisbeck (Loveland, Colo.) pelted a game-winning single up the middle of the field to give Northern State a 4-3 victory over Minnesota-Morris Friday in the nightcap of a doubleheader at NSU's Fossum Field.

Fisbeck's shot with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning scored senior all-conference performer Eric Borge (Mellette) to end the game.

Northern led for most of the first game and held on for an 8-7 win. Fisbeck's insurance run in the bottom of the sixth in that contest proved to be a game-winner too, as Morris charged back with three runs in the seventh to make the game close.

Sophomore hurler Shawn Young (St. Paul, Minn.) picked up the win in the first game, while the versatile Borge notched his first save on the year. Freshman pitcher Joe Dinger (Aberdeen) earned his first collegiate win in the second game. Fisbeck was 3-for-8 with 2 RBI for the day.

Even though both Northern and Morris are members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, the game did not count as a league contest. Due to the number of teams in the NSIC and the shorter number of weekends in Upper Midwest for the conference baseball season, the league decided to adopt a scheduling system in which every school wouldn't play each other each year. NSU and UMM weren't scheduled to play a conference game this season. The teams decided to pick up a non-conference doubleheader due to proximity.

Northern faces off against Wayne State (Neb.) in conference doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday.