The UW-Whitewater baseball team has the opportunity to sleep in Thursday morning in advance of its 4 p.m. game vs. Hamline University of St. Paul, Minn.
Both teams are coming off 3-2 first round wins Wednesday on Prucha Field at James B Miller Stadium.
Whitewater made the most of its four hits to upend St. Thomas (Minn) 3-2. Matt Beyer scored a run and drove in the game-winning run on a sacrifice fly to lead the UWW offense. Dan Putnam ignited the Hawk offense by walking to lead off the bottom of the 1st inning. Putnam stole second and eventually scored the game’s first run on a ground-out.
Whitewater used a “committee approach” in its opening round pitching with Jeff Donovan pitching the first three innings, Riley Tincher the next four, followed by Eric Fritz and Rob Coe combining to pitch the 8th and 9th innings.
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Hamline and St. Scholastica battled for 13 innings prior to the Pipers emerging with a 3-2 extra inning victory.
Hamline junior righthander Cass Kreitlow and St. Scholastica senior righthander Matt Lewis put their “ace” status on the line, and came through with flying colors.
Kreitlow, 9-1 on the season, went 12 innings for Hamline, giving up six hits with two walks and five strikeouts. Lewis matched him with 12 innings, giving up nine hits with two walks and four strikeouts.
Ben Richardson paced the Piper offense with a 4 for 5 game while driving in one of Hamline’s three runs. Dan Ellefson, 3 for 6 at the plate, was the only other Piper with more than one hit.
Hamline will take a 29-13 record into Thursday’s 4 p.m. winner’s bracket game against UW-Whitewater (33-11).
The game will be broadcast live on KOOL 106.5 on the radio and via audio stream.
Click here for Whitewater-Hamline radio broadcast
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