For the first time since the UW-Whitewater baseball team arrived back from spring training in Florida in late March the team finally was able to play in Florida weather Tuesday. The Wahawks made the most of the 82 degree temperature by defeating Concordia University of Mequon on Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium.
The Hawks swept the Falcons 8-6 in the opener and 11-0 (seven innings) in game two.
The two victories allowed UWW to finish out its regular season with an overall record of 31-9 while Concordia falls to 18-21. It marks the fourth consecutive year that the Hawks have won at least 30 games in the regular season.
GAME 1 – UWW 8, CONCORDIA (WI) 6
A quick look at Tuesday’s box scores reminded one of a spring training box score with a large number of Hawk players seeing action along with a number of pitchers getting ah preordained amount of work on the mound.
Jeff Donovan got the starting assignment in game one and retired nine consecutive Falcon batters without giving up a hit. It was pitching by committee in game one with Kyle Lee pitching one-and-two-thirds innings. Eric Schmitz came on to pitch 6th, 7th and 8th innings giving up two runs and two hits while earning his 2nd win of the season. Riley Tincher pitched the 9th to earn his first save of the season.
Andrew Eichstaedt paced the Hawks’ nine hit attack going 2 for 4 including a double and 3 RBI. Sam Keller was the Hawks’ leadoff hitter in the opener and was 1 for 3 including a home run and RBI sacrifice fly. Logan Peot also knocked in two runs with a 1 for 3 afternoon.
UW-Whitewater batters were aided by being hit by a pitch seven time including Matt Beyer being hit three time.
GAME 2 – UWW 11, CONCORDIA (WI) 0 (seven innings)
In game-two, the Wahawks jumped out quick and never looked back in rolling up an 11-0, seven-inning run rule victory.
UWW scored seven runs in the first inning on just three hits, three hit batsmen and an error.
The big inning was fueled by back to back plate appearances with the bases loaded and runs scoring with no hit. The first time Travis Wessels was hit by a pitch with the bases juiced to drive in a run and the second time was when Dylan Friend was walked on the next at bat. Steven Bartlein also “rang the bell” in the inning by driving in two on a single to left field.
A run in the bottom of the third, two more in the fifth, and one more in the sixth brought the final tally to 11-0.
Again, UWW used the committee approach on the mound by using four pitchers in game-two. Just a half-hour afternoon recording the save in the Hawks’ game-one win, Riley Tincher got the start in the nightcap giving up 0 runs and just one hit in three innings to run his record to 9 & 2.
Rob Coe (2.0 innings), Jack Larsen (1.2 innings) and Justin Lambert (0.1 innings) combined to give up 0 runs and just three hits over the final four innings.
For the day Concordia pitchers hit eleven Warhawk batters, walked ten, and struck out just two.
As indicated earlier in the story, Coach Vodenlich intended to use “virtually everyone” in the final doubleheader of the regular season. He did with eight pitchers making the march to the mound and eleven different Warhawks recording a hit and five of them recording multiple hits.
The Warhawks (No. 2 seed) will open the 2011 are off until Friday when they travel to University Field in Stevens Point to face UW-Oshkosh (No. 3 seed) at 10:00 in the first game of the 2011 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament. The three team tournament, including UW-Stevens Point (No. 1 seed), will take place Friday and Saturday with the tournament champion receiving the WIAC’s automatic bid into the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III baseball tournament.
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