Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MOORHEAD – Northwest was on the wrong end of a doubleheader sweep on a windy Tuesday afternoon at Jimmy Bellipani Field as the host Mississippi Delta Trojans knocked off the Rangers by 8-7 and 11-2 finals. 

MDCC improved to 14-8 overall and 5-1 in the north while Northwest fell to 11-9 and 2-4. It's the first home sweep for the Trojans over Northwest since 1998 but the Rangers have won 17 of the last 22 meetings overall.

In the opener, a 22-minute top of the first inning ended with a 3-0 Ranger lead as Delta starter Paul Carpenter was pulled without recording an out. James Lear singled, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on an E2 for Northwest's first run before Chase Clark singled up the middle to score two.

Delta, however, responded with a three spot in its half of the first to tie it at 3-3 when Carson Crites' routine pop fly to right with two outs got up in the stiff wind and carried over the fence.

Northwest pushed back in front in the fourth, 6-3, thanks to a failed pickoff attempt, Tanner Densford RBI-single and Jay King squeeze bunt. 

But that lead was also short-lived for the Rangers as Delta scored four in its half of the inning to take their first lead at 7-6. Jason Berry doubled to score one, Michael Beloso hit a sac fly and Brandon Cummins hit the go-ahead two-run home run to right that chased starter Matt Ferguson. 

Northwest scored its final run in the sixth on J. King's RBI-single to left. 

Hunter Vanderburg (2-1) earned the win in 3.1 innings of relief for Delta while Ferguson, who allowed seven runs in 3.2 innings, took the loss to fall to 2-3. Will Faulkner and Tyler Scholl closed out the final 2.1 innings. 

Kramer Hollenbach finished 2-for-4 to run his career-long hitting streak out to 12 games and Northwest out-hit the Trojans 9-7 in defeat with seven players recording a hit. 

A nightmare start for Northwest in the second game allowed Delta to cruise to an 11-2 win in the finale as the Trojans sent 15 batters to the plate and scored 11 runs off eight hits in the first inning. Tanner Cable recorded just two outs before being relieved by J.R. Miller who was later relieved for Ryan Seawright. 

After the awful start, the Ranger bullpen had a solid day by allowing no runs and just four hits the final five innings. Seawright, Peter Barton, Colin Liles and Davis Brown were all used on the mound.

Northwest scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings on Stephen Sexton's pinch hit RBI-double and J. King's RBI-single, to avoid the run-rule.

The top of the Delta order went 8-for-14 with six RBIs and eight runs scored, with the Trojans pounding out 12 hits against just three for the Rangers.    

Northwest will try and bounce back on Saturday, March 22, traveling to Coahoma for a pair of games.