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LA CROSSE (May 8, 2013) – UW-La Cross held off UW-Stout's last inning rally and completed a sweep over the Blue Devils with a 5-4 second game win Wednesday at North Campus Field. The Eagles won the first game, 9-3.
Trailing 5-4 heading into the final inning.
Mitch LaVelle (Fr, Chippewa Falls) opened the inning with a double, then was moved to second on
Jackson Hallahan's (Jr, Lester Prairie, Minn) sacrifice bunt.
Santiago Morales (Sr, West St. Paul, Minn) drew a walk to put runners on the corners, but a strikeout and a ground out ended the game.
The Eagles (18-19, 10-13 WIAC) got on the board right away in the second game on an RBI single by Adam Cordova and a sacrifice fly by Kohlwey in the first inning. The Eagles doubled the score with two runs in the fourth on a two-run double by Cole Cefula.
Stout cut the lead in half in the fifth inning.
Chris Sill (Sr, Wabasha, Minn) opened with a walk, then advanced to second on a single by
Austin Littman (Fr, Pittsville).
Beau Jernberg (Fr, Mahtomedi, Minn) drove in Sill with a single up the middle and Morales drew a bases loaded walk.
Stout tied the score in the seventh inning. Jernberg led off with a single, then moved to third on LaVelle's double. Jernberg scored on
Jackson Hallahan's (Jr, Lester Prairie, Minn) ground out. Morales drove in LaVelle with a single to left.
The Eagles took the lead in the eighth inning on an RBI single by Taylor Kohlway.
In the opener, both teams scored runs in three individual innings. The difference: Stout scored single runs in the first, third and fourth innings, while the Eagles scored multiple runs In the third, fifth and the seventh.
Stout took an early lead, taking advantage of an Eagle error in the first inning.
Jake Lunow (So, Princeton) reached on a throwing error, then moved to second on a wild pitch. Lunow moved to third on Morales' ground out and scored on
Charlie Meyer's single to left field.
Stout took a 2-0 lead when Morales brought home Hallahan on a sacrifice fly.
The Eagles took the lead with a three run third, with Adam Cordova's two run single the biggest blow.
The Blue Devils knotted the game at 3 apiece with a single run in the fourth inning.
Matt Guida scored after the Eagles' attempted to turn a double play and threw the ball away. The Eagles stung Stout for two runs in the fifth inning when Trevor Burmeister slashed a two run single.
The Eagles put the game away with a four-run seventh, getting RBIs from Ben Morgan and Burmeister and two RBIs from Cole Cefula.
Stout was held to five hits, with Hallahan going 3-for-4. The Eagles had 15 hits, with every starter getting at least one hit.
