BRANDON, S.D. — Isaac Nett tied a Southwest Minnesota State baseball program record with three home runs in a game against Bemidji State on Saturday, leading the Mustangs to a 13-4 and 8-6 win over the Beavers at Aspen Park to complete a four-game sweep of their Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference foe.

Sunday’s wins came on the heels of another pair of wins over the Beavers on Friday by final scores of 17-0 and 15-1.

Nett finished the day with four total home runs after blasting another in the Mustangs’ second victory of the day. Combined with his performance in Friday’s doubleheader, Nett went 10 of 17 at the dish on the weekend with four homers, three doubles and 17 RBIs to earn NSIC Player of the Week honors.

In the first game of the day on Saturday, Nett broke the stalemate in the third inning. Cody Wichmann and Jake Tauer walked to start the game and Nett started the fireworks with a three-run homer to left field to put the Mustangs on the board.

Later in the same inning, Owen Latendresse hit a solo shot to left field to make the score 4-0 in favor of the Mustangs.

Both teams went three-up, three-down in the fourth but the Mustangs regained their momentum early in the fifth inning. Chase McDaniel hit a leadoff double and Nett followed up with a two-run blast to right field. Latendresse then singled and Peyton Nash hit an RBI double to make the score 7-0.

Nett capped off his three-homer game by driving in another two-run shot in the top of the seventh, scoring McDaniel who reached on a walk, to make the score 13-3.

Tauer had also scored earlier in the inning after driving in Wichmann and Caleb Gardow on a double and reaching home himself on a wild pitch.

Ryan Chmielewski took the hill in the first game of the day, allowing three runs on five hits over six innings. He also struck out nine batters while walking just three and improved to 3-2 on the year.

All three of the runs he allowed came in the fifth inning. He started the inning by allowing a walk and a single before another pair of singles and a double made the score 7-3. Still, he got out of the inning with a strikeout and a groundout to keep SMSU in the driver’s seat.

Tauer tied Nett with a game-high three runs scored after hitting a leadoff single in the sixth inning and scoring on a wild pitch.

Christian Lindow fell to 0-4 for the Beavers after allowing seven runs on seven hits over 4 1/3 innings. Jack Hoffrogge also pitched 2 1/3 innings of relief while allowing six runs on five hits. Both pitchers threw two strikeouts.

Hunter Daymond hit an RBI double in the seventh inning to score Matt Filippi but the Beavers were unable to turn the hit into any momentum. It was the Beavers’ only extra-base hit of the game. The game ended on a groundout in the next at-bat.

Shay Endres pitched the final frame for SMSU, allowing one run on two hits with a strikeout.

While the Mustangs never trailed in either of the games on the day, their 8-6 win in Saturday’s second game left the result in doubt much longer than the first.

The game was tied at 2-2 entering the top of the third when the Mustangs cracked the game open. McDaniel and Nett each walked to start the inning and a double steal put runners on second and third with no outs.

Max Kalenberg drove in the go-ahead runs on the next at-bat with a single to right field, making the score 4-2.

Latendresse drew a walk to put two runners on and a Brady Petron sacrifice bunt advanced Latendresse and Kalenberg into scoring position with just one out. Nash then singled to centerfield to drive in both runs but a groundout and a strikeout ended the inning before the Mustangs could do further damage.

Trailing 7-3 entering the bottom of the sixth, the Beavers started to rally. Filippi walked and, after back-to-back Bemidji State strikeouts, Beau Thoma singled to put runners on the corners. Zach Evenson then cranked a homer to right field to bring the Beavers within one but Daymond was caught stealing after a single to end the inning with SMSU leading 7-6.

Ansen Dulas earned his first win of the year in the game, improving to 1-2 with the six-inning, nine-strikeout performance. He allowed six runs on nine hits with four walks.

Jerod Cyrus, Kobe Lovell and Cameron Jensen each pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Mustangs. Cyrus and Lovell also held the Beavers without a baserunner while Jensen allowed just one single while securing his first save of the year.

Gardow doubled to start the ninth inning and, after advancing to third on a Tauer groundout, he scored on a balk to give SMSU one extra insurance run.

Evenson hit a one-out single in the bottom of the ninth. Allen came in as a pinch runner and advanced to second when Daymond reached on an error. After a fly-out, both runners advanced into scoring position on a passed ball but Jensen came up with a strikeout to get out of the jam and secure the 8-6 Mustang victory.

Brandon Lind started for the Beavers in the second game of the day. He pitched just 2 1/3 innings, allowing five earned runs on three hits and four walks. From there, Bemidji threw five other pitchers on the mound, none going three or more innings.

SMSU kicked off the game’s scoring in the first inning when McDaniel reached on a fielding error and Nett slammed his fourth homer of the day over the left-field wall for a 2-0 Mustang lead. Nett was walked in each of his next four at-bats in the game.

The Beavers retired the Mustangs in order to start the second inning and then rallied offensively to tie it. Daymond drew a leadoff walk to start the inning, Jack Munson singled and both runners advanced into scoring position on a Hedley sacrifice bunt. Jonathan Gates walked to load up the bases and, after a Hudson Filippi strikeout, Riley Czech drove in Munson and Daymond to make the score 2-2.

The Beavers had the go-ahead run on second and another on first but Dulas struck out Filippi to limit the damage.

The pair of wins bring SMSU to 14-9 overall and 8-7 in NSIC play on the year, good for seventh place in the 14-team league. Bemidji State falls to 0-16 in conference and 1-25 overall with the sweep.

SMSU will look to keep rising up the standings when it takes on third-place Augustana (17-6, 10-4 NSIC) at Ronken Field in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Wednesday. From there, they’ll play the first games of the year at Legion Field when they host Concordia-St. Paul for a pair of doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s games are scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday’s at noon.