One of the side-stories coming out of Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of Platteville was the Riley Tincher’s game-one pitching performance.The 2010 WIAC Pitcher of the Year was coming off two consecutive subpar performances.
Tincher responded by getting back into his winning rhythm by pitching five solid innings giving up just two hits. Platteville scored two unearned runs off the senior lefthander in the first inning.
“The first couple of innings he was still struggling a little,” Hawk head coach John Vodenlich tells Voiceseyeonbaseball.blogspot.com. “After that he got back in his rhythm.”
Tincher has been UWW’s No. 1 in the pitching rotation for the past two seasons and has led the WIAC in inning’s pitched.
Last season Tincher pitched 102.1 innings while posting a 13 & 1 record.
Entering this weekend Riley (57.0) along with teammate Jeff Donovan (55.1) and UW-Stevens Point’s Scott Williams (61.1) have logged the most innings on the mound.
Coach Vodenlich told us earlier this season that its “pitching and defense” that are key to winning championships.
Entering the weekend, UW-Whitewater leads the WIAC with a 3.84 earned run average and a .966 fielding percentage.
The Hawks and UW-Stevens Point are tied for the league in hitting with a team .339 batting average entering the final week of the WIAC season.
With all this said let me emphasize strongly that conference championships don’t go to the team with the “best” statistics but to the team that wins the most games on the field.
This weekend UW-Whitewater (13-3) has a four-game series at UW-Oshkosh (9-7) and will conclude its conference slate next weekend by hosting UW-La Crosse (11-9) for four games at Jim Miller Stadium.
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