The UW-Whitewater baseball team arrived at Jim Miller Stadium Wednesday with its hitting shoes on. The Hawks opened game one of the doubleheader scoring seven runs in its first at bat on the way to a 22-6 win. Game two had the same script with Whitewater scoring four in the first inning and led 8-1 after three.on the way to a 16-6 victory over WIAC rival UW-Oshkosh.
Whitewater pounded out 36 hits in the twinbill.
In game-one, each of the Hawk starters scored at least one run and were on base at least twice.
Matt Beyer and Ryan Leavitt led the hit parade. Beyer finished 3 for 5 with 5 RBI. Leavitt ended game-one 3 for 3 with 4 runs batted in. Jeff Donovan ripped his team-high ninth home run.
Riley Tincher pitched five innings to extend his record to 10 and 0 for the season.
Jordan Stine, Dan Putnam and Matt Beyer ripped home runs in game-two to lead the Hawks 15 hit attack. Stine, Putnam and Ryan Levitt added doubles.
Jason Hooper (see adjacent photo) pitched 6.2 innings to pick up his first win since hurling a no-hitter on April 11th. Hooper raises his season record to 4 & 2..
With the sweep, the Hawks are now 29 & 4 on the season and 17 & 3 in the WIAC. Oshkosh drops to 5 & 11 in conference play and 12 & 18 overall.
Whitewater will wind up WIAC action this weekend with doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday. Voices Eye on Baseball will be blogging from Superior all weekend long.
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