WINONA, Minn. – The Winona State baseball team earned a 3-1 series win over Bemidji State after splitting a doubleheader Sunday at Loughrey Field. The Warriors won game one 7-5 before dropping the nightcap 17-7.

GAME ONE: WSU 7, BSU 5

Back-to-back walks set up a Jesus Cazares three-run home run in the first inning and the Warriors never looked back on the way to a 7-5 victory. Bemidji State – acting as the home team due to site reversal – answered back with a run in the bottom of the first, but Joe Kubera scored Mitchell Heid in the second to keep the three-run cushion at 4-1. The lead grew to 5-1 later in the inning when Andrew Geislinger scored on a wild pitch, but the Beavers kept it close as an RBI single made it 5-2 after just two innings of play.

Taylor Field scored Cazares in the top of the third with an RBI double to right center field to extend the lead to 6-2, but BSU got a run back in each of the next two innings to cut the deficit in half at 6-4.

A Heid homer to right center in the sixth upped the lead again to 7-4 before BSU again scored on an RBI single in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-5.

That's as close as the Beavers would get, as Mitch Voter saved his third consecutive game in the bottom of the frame to preserve the 7-5 win.

Mitchell Stalsberg (2-4) picked up his second win of the season, walking eight batters but striking out seven and allowing just three earned runs in six innings of work.

GAME TWO: BSU 17, BSU 7

The Beavers scored in all but one inning to pull away from the Warriors and salvage a victory in the series in the final game of the weekend to earn a 17-7 win.

After Bemidji State scored a pair of runs in the first inning, WSU took a brief lead in the top of the second with four runs thanks to a two-run triple by Nathan Krause and RBI singles by Paul Mutch and Joe Kubera.

But the lead wouldn't last as the Beavers scored five runs in the second, two in the third and six in the fourth to build a 15-6 advantage and cruised to the 17-7 win.

Kubera and Krause each went 3-for-4 with 3 RBI in the game to lead the Warriors at the plate.

Winona State (9-17, 6-7 NSIC) hits the road for a doubleheader at Wayne State Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. before traveling to U-Mary for a four-game series on Saturday and Sunday.