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Box Score 2 UW-Stout 9, Utica College 8 (3/18/13) |
UW-Stout 9, Utica College 6
FORT MYERS, Fla. (March 20, 2013) - After winning the first game of their doubleheader with Utica College on Monday, UW-Stout used a big fourth inning to earn a 9-6 victory, Wednesday, to complete the two-game sweep.
Stout, who started the day with a 1-0 lead they took on Monday, scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 7-5 lead they would not relinquish.
The teams resumed the game in the bottom of the first inning, in which Stout had already scored a run.
Nick Nalbach (So, Plover) provided the run on Monday and finished the game very well today. Nalbach went 3-for-3 with a walk for the game and scored all four times he reached base.
Jackson Hallahan (Jr, Lester Prairie, Minn.) drove in
Santiago Morales (Sr, West St. Paul, Minn.) to take a 2-0 lead after one inning. Morales finished the game 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, and a triple. He scored two runs and drove in two more.
Hallahan drove in Nalbach on a sacrifice fly in the third inning to take a 3-0 lead, but Utica put together a comeback in the fourth. The Pioneers batted through the order to take a 5-3 lead of their own.
Stout, however, came right back with four runs in the bottom half of the inning.
Charlie Pelzer (Jr, Little Canada, Minn.), who finished the game 2-for-3, led off the inning with a double and later scored to narrow the deficit. Nalbach and Morales logged back-to-back doubles and both crossed home before the inning's end to grab a 7-5 lead.
Utica added a run in the fifth to cut the lead to one run, but Stout added a run in each of the fifth and sixth innings to coast to the victory.
Andrew Kemper (Fr, Woodbury, Minn.) picked up his first win of the season after allowing one run in his only inning pitched.
In the series' first game on Monday, Stout almost saw their 9-2 lead evaporate, but held on for a 9-8 win.
The Blue Devils took a commanding lead in the top of the fifth inning, but the Pioneers would not go down without a fight. Utica scored two runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth to pull within one run before
Dan Britts (Sr, Nekoosa) closed out the game.
Stout got the offense going early, scoring three runs in the first inning and two more in the second. Morales drove in
Ryan Gangestad (So, Maple Grove, Minn.) to start the scoring, and later scored on a Hallahan double.
Colin Pechacek (So, River Falls) followed with another double, scoring Hallahan to take a 3-0 lead after half an inning of play.
Stout got a lot of production from the bottom of their order all game, and it started in the second inning.
Brady Burzynski (Fr, New Auburn) and
Jared Francois (Jr, Burlington), batting eighth and ninth, began the inning with back-to-back singles to bring up the top of the order.
Mitch LaVelle (Fr, Chippewa Falls) followed with another single, scoring Burzynski. Gangestad then drove in Francois to put Stout up, 5-0.
Utica took advantage of a hit and a few Stout errors to put two runs on the board in the third inning, but Stout went right back to work in the fourth.
Francois doubled with one out in the fourth and later scored on a sacrificy fly by Gangestad after moving to third on a LaVelle single. In the fifth, Pechacek walked to begin a two-out rally that would put them up by seven runs. It was again Burzynski and Francois who provided the bats as Burzynski doubled and scored moments later on a Francois RBI single.
Starting pitcher
Adam Widder (So, Wauwatosa) saw his outing come to an end after allowing two runs in the fifth. He would go on to pick up the win after allowing two earned runs and four hits in five full innings of work.
Reliever
Joseph Tuttle (Fr, Nekoosa) began the sixth inning with three straight walks before Britts entered the game into a bases-loaded jam. All three of Tuttle's walked batters scored, but Britts got out of the inning without allowing an earned run of his own and more importantly, held on to a slim one-run lead. A scoreless seventh inning for Utica resulted in Stout's first win of their spring break trip.
Stout will return to the diamond tomorrow, March 21, for a 10 a.m. (ET) single nine-inning game against Johns Hopkins University.
