Ryan Ladika/MDN Minot Vistas’ Dylan Buchanan (12) and Tyler Budeau (13) score on a Calvin Baker two-run single in the bottom of the first inning in a game against Fargo Post 400 Stars at Corbett Field in Minot.

The Minot Vistas continued their three-day homestand Friday evening, meeting the Fargo Post 400 Stars for a doubleheader at Corbett Field. The Vistas swept the twin-bill from the Stars, taking the opener by a 5-2 final score before winning the nightcap 12-2.

After a perfect top of the first inning authored by starting pitcher Eli Nissen, Minot’s offense exploded against Stars starter Andy Mach. Chase Burke continued his torrid summer season with a leadoff triple and immediately scored on a groundout by two-hole hitter Hunter Ruzicka.

Trent Greek, Dylan Buchanan and Morgan Nygaard followed with three consecutive singles, the third of which drove Greek home with Minot’s second run of the inning. Nygaard was later forced out at second base on a fielder’s choice grounded into by Tyler Budeau, and Calvin Baker doubled the Vistas’ advantage with a two-run single, putting Minot ahead 4-0 after a first inning that saw 10 men come to the plate.

Minot tacked on a fifth run in the bottom of the second inning via a Nygaard sacrifice fly that plated Ruzicka, giving Nissen plenty of run support early on.

The Minot left-hander was in complete control throughout the afternoon’s affairs, striking out the side in order in the second, whiffing two more in a scoreless third, and adding his sixth punchout in a clean fourth.

Nissen ran into a bit of trouble in his final three innings of work, and the Stars eventually broke through with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth inning. He limited the damage to two with his eighth strikeout of the day, and second of the inning, to escape the frame, and struck out his ninth batter in the seventh.

He was lifted in favor of Talon Hebert with one out left in the final frame, and Hebert nailed down the save, and the 5-2 victory, with a groundout to Ruzicka at shortstop.

Minot’s offense found its footing early in the nightcap as well, scoring four runs in the first two frames in support of Tyler Buchanan. Burke lined a leadoff double and scampered to third base on a Stars wild pitch. Greek, hitting in the third spot in the Vistas’ lineup, came through with one out and drive Burke home with an RBI groundout.

Minot would score thrice more in the second, again on the backs of Burke and Greek. The former came through with yet another extra-base hit, this time a two-run shot that cleared the left field fence, and the latter plated Ruzicka with a run-scoring triple to give the lead back to the Vistas after Post 400 put up a two-spot in the top of the frame.

Tyler Buchanan settled in with his club’s second lead of the evening, tossing a perfect third inning and inducing weak contact in scoreless fourth and fifth frames, and the Vistas’ offense continued adding on.

Braedon McCarty slugged Minot’s second home run of the game with two outs in the bottom of the fifth, again over the left field fence, and Ruzicka drove in his first run of the game with a double later in the inning to extend the home nine’s advantage to 6-2.

The Vistas kept pouring it on in the sixth, scoring six more times highlighted by an RBI single by Jonas Bubach, a two-run double by Burke, his fourth hit of the game and second double, and a walk-off three-run home run by Ruzicka, completing the doubleheader sweep with the 12-2 run-rule win.

Minot will be back in action Saturday morning against Williston, with first pitch scheduled for 11 a.m.