In four games last weekend against Northland at Thief River Falls, the Rainy River Community College baseball team split the two games that counted Saturday in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference standings and then also split a pair of non-conference games Sunday.

The Voyageurs led by a run going into the bottom of the seventh before giving up 2 runs on a bases-loaded hit and losing Saturday’s opening contest, 4-3.

Ty Paddock went the distance for RRCC, giving up 4 hits and 4 walks while striking out three.

Of RRCC’s 8 hits, Riley Acra and Angel Hernandez Jr. each had two.

RRCC 5, Northland 0

Reece Lanier scattered 5 hits pitching all seven innings in game two Saturday when the Voyageurs shut out Northland, 5-0.

Acra and Gabriel Santos Muniz both had a pair of hits. Hernandez hammered a 2-run homer in the top of the sixth to record RRCC’s second round-tripper of the season.

RRCC 26, Northland 16

In the first non-conference game Sunday, in which a bitterly cold breeze helped propel balls hit to left field and also hampered pitchers, the Voyageurs belted 20 hits and defeated Northland, 26-16, in five innings.

Lanier led RRCC’s offense with 4 hits, including a home run, and 5 RBI. Acra and Bryn Redhead each added 3 hits and a home run apiece.

Four more Voyageurs — Hernandez, Dominic Casareto, Josh McInnes and Chandler Ticknor — all had 2 hits.

Max Gonzalez was the winning pitcher after working 3 1/3 innings, giving up 13 runs, 11 earned, on 11 hits with three walks while striking out a batter.

McInnes pitched the final 1 2/3 innings in relief, allowing 3 earned runs on 5 hits and a walk with a strikeout.

Northland 15, RRCC 5

The Voyageurs were unable to score after the second inning when they lost the final game Sunday to Northland, 15-5, in five innings.

McInnes recorded the pitching loss working two innings, allowing 6 runs, five earned, on 5 hits with 5 walks.

Ticknor threw the final two innings in relief, giving up 9 runs, eight earned, on 8 hits while striking out a batter.

Six different batters accounted for RRCC’s 6 hits.

“Overall since (last) Wednesday, we played much better baseball,” said RRCC head coach Josh Koenig.

The Voyageurs, who are 1-1 in the MCAC and 8-20 overall, play conference doubleheaders today at Hibbing and Saturday at Mesabi Range.