La Crosse and UWW set for first pitch at the Mills

The UW-La Crosse baseball team enters this weekend’s four-game series at Whitewater tied with UW-Oshkosh for 3rd place in the WIAC standings entering the final weekend of the conference season.

The Eagles are coming off a non-conference sweep of St. Olaf (Minn). UWL brings a 23 & 12 (overall) and 11 & 9 (WIAC) marks into the weekend.

The 23 wins for UW-L are the most-ever under seventh-year head coach Chris Schwarz. It is also the most victories for the Eagles since 2002 when they finished 26-18.

Only the top-three teams will advance to next weekend’s WIAC postseason tournament that will hosted by the No. 1 seed. UW-Stevens Point enters the weekend in 1st place in the conference with the Warhawks a game back.

Partly cloudy skies, 64 degrees and winds will be blowing from left field corner to right field corner at 11 mph gusting to 24 mph.

Starting pitchers in game-one are:

UWL: Mitch Running (5 wins, 1 loss – 3.51 era)
UWW: Riley Tincher (7 wins, 2 losses – 2.95 era)