Senior infielder Ryan Reese helped North Dakota to an historic win this past weekend with a three-run homer in the top of the tenth inning that gave North Dakota a 6-4 win over the University of Washington.

The victory manifested North Dakota’s first-ever win over a PAC-12 team in school history.

Going into the four weekend games at Washington, UND coach Jeff Dodson said he had goals.

“I think the biggest thing is that we’ve got to score a few more runs,” Dodson said. “Arkansas’ pitching staff was really good, but we have to go out and we have to play a little more aggressively from the offensive side of things, and also I think we need to be better out of the bullpen. That was one area that hurt us, guys were trying to do a little too much, which is understandable first time out. Those are the two biggest areas we need to focus on when we go to Washington.”

North Dakota went to Seattle having lost its first three games of the season on the road against Arkansas.

“We’ve got to have short memory, not let the bus rides affect us,” Dodson said. “We have to take the mentality that if we win a conference championship, it’s going to be on the road and we have to start preparing these early games to give us the mindset that we’re playing for a conference championship every time we go out.”

Senior Dalton Parrott helped get North Dakota on the scoreboard early, hitting leadoff home run at the top of the first inning. Dalton’s homer was his first in a North Dakota uniform.

Andrew Thome was in a good position after the Parrott home run and had a solid outing in the North Dakota win, completing seven innings while only allowing seven hits and three runs.  Thome had one strikeout on the day and walked one University of Washington batter.

Friday’s win also gave Jeff Dodson his 100th career win as North Dakota’s head coach.

“We only had seven hits, but none bigger than Resse’s in the tenth,” Dodson said after the game.

North Dakota went on to play a doubleheader against University of Washington on Saturday in which they lost both games, the first 17-3 and the second 5-3. The team played its final game of the weekend against Washington on Sunday, losing 4-1 giving the team a record of 1-6 so far on the year.

Tyler Follis, Senior from Bemidji, MN extended his hitting streak to 23 games, a streak that dates back to last season. Follis picked up two hits in Sunday’s 4-1 loss at Washington.

North Dakota goes on the road again this weekend where they will play a three game series against Omaha. The games have been shifted from their normal times and will now be scheduled as a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. and one more on Sunday, with weather permitting.

Ben Novak is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected].