UWW and CSS split highly anticipated twinbill at the Mills

The highly anticipated non-conference doubleheader between (No.6) College of St. Scholastica and (No. 10) UW-Whitewater lived up to its billing Tuesday afternoon on Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium.

The Warhawks took the opener 3-1 with CSS coming back to capture game-two 2-1. Both games were scheduled seven inning affairs.

The Hawks got solid starting pitching in both games.

Game 1; UWW 3, CSS 1

Junior righthander Jack Larsen picked up his first win of the season for Whitewater, going the first three and two thirds innings, allowing four hits and the one run, walking two and striking out three. Kyle Lee came on in relief to pitch the final three-and-a-third innings, giving up just one hit to pick up his first save of the season.

Matt Lewis, who entered the game with a 7 & 0 record suffered his first loss of the season despite giving up just five hits and two walks.

Dylan Friend led the way for the UWW offense knocking in two runs including a leadoff home run to open the bottom of the fourth inning. Andrew Bauer had the other RBI for Whitewater in the Hawks two-run second inning. UWW’s Jared Fon was the only player in the with more than one hit, going 2 for 2 and scoring a run.

Each team had five hits in the game.


Game 2; CSS 2, UWW 1

The College of St. Scholastica (28-5) came back in game-two for a 2-1 win over UW-Whitewater (26-8). CSS scored both its runs in the 6th inning on four hits. The Saints scored the first run on an RBI single by Kyle Moody who entered the game with a .455 batting average.

UWW head coach then pulled starter Justin Mortensen in favor of Matt Roberts. The second batter to face Roberts was Saints’ right fielder Scott Greening who hit a wicked line drive shot off the arm of the freshman reliever. The infield hit sent Saints’ runners to second and third while knocking Roberts out of the game with an undisclosed arm injury.

Eric Schmitz was called in for emergency relief and gave up the go-ahead run scoring single to Kyle Vogelgesang, the first batter he faced.

Whitewater attempted a final-inning rally by putting runners on 1st and 3rd with one out in the 7th. Saints starting pitcher Kyle Jensen got out of the jam by getting a strike out and a game-ending ground out to squash the Warhawks rally.

Jensen goes the distance for CSS, giving up one run on seven hits, while walking one and striking out two.

Mortensen suffered the loss giving up 2 runs and 5 hits in 5.1 innings on the mound.

Jared Fon led the UWW offense in game-two by going 2 for 3 with an RBI.

Both teams appear to be on a possible collision course to meet again in this month’s NCAA Division III Midwest Regional to be played in Whitewater May 17th to the 22nd.