An interesting scenario is set up in the WIAC this week. It is Easter week and the WIAC schedule has its teams playing its conference games today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday) in four-game series.
While the UW-Whitewater baseball team plays nationally ranked Concordia (Chicago) in a twinbill this afternoon on Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium, the rest of the conference will be battling it out amongst themselves.
Whitewater currently holds down first place in the conference standings with an 11 & 3 mark (20 & 5 overall).
Second place Stevens Point (7 & 3) and third-place Oshkosh (6 & 4) will be on the road this week. The Pointers travel to Superior. Oshkosh makes the trek to Menomonie for four games at Stout.
While the Warhawks enjoy the conference bye week the potential is there to increase its lead in the WIAC standings.
The Hawks doubleheader today (Thursday) vs. Concordia (Chicago) will certainly be no picnic.
The Cougars are ranked in the D3baseball.com Top 25 with a 20 & 4 record and will bring one of the top scoring teams in the nation into the Mills.
The Cougars enter today’s doubleheader ranked sixth in Division III averaging 9.5 runs per game and eighth in the country with a .348 batting average.
“They are very much a quality team,” Hawk head coach John Vodenlich said following Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of Edgewood College. “They are absolutely the premier team in the Northern Athletics Conference (NATHC).”
Concordia (Chicago) is 10 & 0 in the conference, two games up on second-place Aurora.
First pitch is set for 1 p.m. in game-one this afternoon.
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