The 2011 edition of the UW-Whitewater baseball team is fresh off a season opening two game sweep of Washington University over the weekend in St. Louis.
The Warhawks won the opener on Thursday 11 to 1 followed by a 16-10 victory on Friday.
“The wins are great but the most important aspect of the St. Louis trip was to the chance to get outdoors and play for the first time (since opening preseason practice.)” Veteran head coach John Vodenlich tells Voiceseyeonbaseball.blogspot.com. “At this point of the season we have been indoors for a long time and the most important thing was to be able to put the product on the field.”
The Warhawks were originally scheduled to open the season last weekend in Omaha, Nebraska with three games vs. Concordia-Moorhead (Minn). Those game were cancelled last week due to the lack of an available field in Omaha. At the 11th hour Whitewater was able to schedule two nonconference games vs. Washington University in St. Louis.
Despite putting up 27 runs in the season-opening victories,
“We have some work to do but just to get the chance to play two outdoor games this time of the year other than Florida makes us very happy,” Vodenlich said.
UW-Whitewater has traditionally scheduled pre-Florida trip games at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. This spring’s games needed to be cancelled due to the highly publicized collapse of the Metrodome’s roof under the weight of snow last December.
UW-Whitewater is off until March 17th when they’ll open seven days of spring ball in central Florida over spring break.
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