The UW-Whitewater baseball team appeared on the way to a sweep of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader against second place UW-Stevens Point. The Warhawks won game-one 8-1 behind the solid pitching combination of Aaron Leitner and Ben Versnik.
Whitewater took a 5-2 lead into the eighth inning of game two.
Point scored four in the top of the eighth to take a 6-5 lead. Whitewater fought back to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Nick Rechlitz,
The Pointers scored nine runs in the top of the ninth to take a 15-6 lead. UW-W used six pitchers in the inning as Point brought thirteen batters to the plate. The inning featured five consecutive RBI singles with two outs.
The 'Hawks mounted a rally in the bottom of the ninth by scoring three runs but fell short.
“We won 16 innings today, Warhawk head coach John Vodenlich said following game two. “We can’t feel good about winning 16 (innings) and not being able to win the other two.”
For the day the Warhawks totaled 22 hits (11 in each game), and had six players record multiple hits. Kuhlmann and Donovan each drove in four runs while Coe chipped in two.
UW-Whitewater will host UW-Oshkosh in a twinbill beginning at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, April 28. The Warhawks will honor former player Eric Baldwin at the game for his donation of $200 thousand to the program to buy lights for the field..
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