St. Peter, MN - The Crown College Polars Baseball team faced off with the North Central Rams in a single 9 inning game on Friday and came out on top 14-10.

Crown started the scoring early in the first inning as Ashton Long drove a ball out of the park to right center field for his 4th home run of the season to take a 2-0 lead. Both teams notched one run of their own in the second inning as Crown led 3-1. Three runs from North Central in the top of the fourth inning gave North Central their first lead of the game 4-3. Two errors in the bottom half of the inning led to a four run inning and Crown didn't look back scoring seven runs over the course of the next three innings. A late rally from the Rams cut Crown's lead to four but the Polars held off the Rams by a final score of 14-10.

Rhys Dewick totaled 3 hits on the day in 5 at bats. Ashton Long hit a home run and went 2-4 with 2 runs batted in. Cael Magill and Tristen Ciarlo both had multi hit games as well. Jefferson Barmoy started on the mound for the Polars and pitched 4.1 innings. Jacob Worley came out of the bullpen first and took home the win. Danny Gallardo pitched 2.2 innings and Jacob Van Dam came in to close the game with two outs in the top of the 9th and grabbed the save.

The Polars return to action on Sunday taking on North Central in a doubleheader with game times set at 1pm and 3:30pm.