Brown racked up no-hitter No. 2 for the Cardinal baseball teaml, limiting Carleton to just three base runners—one on a walk in the third inning and two more via back-to-back walks in the fourth—in leading Saint Mary's to a 4-0 victory in the opening game of their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sweep of Carleton
Brown—who allowed just three base runners, two via Cardinal errors and the other on a second-inning hit batter, en route to his first no-hitter against Aurora on March 17—was just as stingy against Carleton on Friday. Brown set down the first seven Knight batters he faced—before surrendering a one-out walk to Zane Johann—and retired the last 10 Carleton hitters, after giving up back-to-back two-out walks to Ben Frerichs and Brendon Fischel in the fifth. He induced the Knights into 10 groundball outs and eight fly ball outs.
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Brown—the first Cardinal pitcher on record to record two no-hitters in a single season—is the first hurler in NCAA Division III to record the feat since Ferrum’s Jake Perkins posted a pair of no-hitters during the 2014 season. Brown is the first MIAC pitcher with two no-hitters in a season since 1977, when Saint John’s Rick Laba achieved the feat—no-hitting Gustavus (2-0) and Augsburg (2-0).
Brown, who logged just 5 2/3 innings over his first two seasons as a Cardinal, has thrown a team-leading 44 1/3 innings this season, owning a 3-3 record and a 3.05 ERA and a team-best 36 strikeouts.
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