MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-- North Central Baseball fought gallantly but came up short in a marathon of three double-headers in three days over the weekend. After spliting a Friday series with Crown College the Rams were swept by Northland College and Bethany Lutheran College on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

North Central (1-18, 1-7) was able to earn their first win of the year on Friday, grabbing game two of a double-dip versus Crown College (St. Bonifacius, Minn.) by a 17-7 final score. The Rams showed a great bit of character to take game two after dropping game one by a 19-5 score when they allowed 15 runs in a single inning in the loss to the Storm.

Freshman William Rosevear (Canton, Mich./Homeschool) earned the victory on the mound going six innings and scattering three earned runs over three hits with three strikeouts. Senior Ian Andrews (Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids) was 2-3 on the day with four RBI, a triple and a walk. Freshman Cody Van Sickle (Machesney Park, Ill./Harlem) was 3-4 with a pair of doubles and a walk. Freshman Nick Kelly (Hudson, Iowa/Hudson) was 3-5 with a double and a pair of RBI. Senior Ben Freitag (Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville North) was 1-3 with a triple while senior Gary Ramos (Chicago, Ill./Foreman) was 1-4 with a double and four RBI.

The Rams were back at the grindstone on Saturday with a double header at home versus Northland College (Ashland, Wis.). NCU dropped game one by a 6-0 score before being defeated 15-2 by the Jacks. Game one saw the Rams pick up just six hits over the ninning affair. Game two saw the Jacks pound out 15 runs, 9 earned, on 17 hits. North Central commited six errors in the loss. Gary Ramos drove in the only Rams earned run of the game in the bottom of the seventh on a sacrifice fly that scored a runner from third.

Sunday was equally as painful for NCU as they were swept 9-0 and 32-5 by Bethany Lutheran College (Mankato, Minn.). Gary Ramos was 3-4 with a double and an RBI in game two and was 4-8 in the series.

North Central will attempt a recovery during North Central's campus finals week before closing their season with another three-day double-header marathon that begins on Thursday. NCU will host the University of Minnesota-Morris (Morris, Minn.) on Thursday at Wintercrest Park at 12 p.m. before traveling to The College of St. Scholastica (Duluth, Minn.) on Friday for a 1 p.m. first pitch. Saturday NCU wraps up its 2013 schedule at Northwestern College (St. Paul, Minn.) at 12 p.m.