AUBURNDALE, Fla. - The North Dakota State baseball team pounded out a season-high 17 hits and racked up 17 runs on Thursday evening to defeat Yale 17-2 at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. NDSU improved to 3-2 on its Florida trip and 7-7 on the season.

Freshman right-hander Adam Lambrecht threw four scoreless innings to earn the victory in his first collegiate start, allowing just one hit and striking out four Bulldogs.

All nine Bison starters recorded at least one hit, and six recorded two or more as NDSU registered season-highs in runs, hits and doubles (8).

Junior right fielder Blake Turbak and senior first baseman Kirk Kenneally each went 3-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored. Kenneally capped the NDSU offensive outburst with a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning - his second of the season.

Tate Leapaldt, Wes Satzinger, Jon Hechtner and Michael Leach all posted two hits.

The Bison used five hits, four walks and one Yale error in the bottom of the first inning to race out to an 8-0 lead after one inning.

NDSU added two runs in the third, three in the fifth, three in the sixth, and one in the eighth.

Sophomore Jay Flaa pitched two innings, and senior reliever Simon Anderson nailed down the final three innings for a save.

NDSU will play Northwestern at 3:30 p.m. (CT) on Friday in Winter Haven, Fla.