UW-Superior 3, UW-Stout 2 (14-inn) |
UW-Stout 11, UW-Superior 1 (7-inn)
SUPERIOR (April 29, 2015) - UW-Stout overcame a 3-2 14-inning loss to UW-Superior to come back with a dominating 11-1 second game win to earn a split at Ted Whearatt Field Wednesday.
Stout scored the first two runs in the first game, only to see Superior come to knot the game and send it into extra innings, and extra innings and extra innings. The Yellowjackets finally got the game-winner in the bottom of the 14th inning when, with the bases loaded and two outs, a Yellowjacket got hit by a pitch to end the nearly three hour contest.
Charlie Meyer and
Ryan Connor each drove in a run in the sixth inning to put Stout up 2-0. The Yellowjackets tied the game with two runs in the eighth inning. Both starters -
Hayden Bowe for Stout, Grant Schneider for Superior - went nine innings, but neither figured into the decision.
It was a different story in the second game. After spotting the Yellowjackets a single run in the bottom of the second inning, scored in the remaining five innings, including a five run seventh inning.
Jack Schneider had a career game for the Blue Devils, driving in five runs. Schneider put Stout on the board in the third inning with a two-run double to right center.
Kasey Kruse, who had a three-RBI game, drove in a run in the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly.
Tyler Nalbach scored on an error in the fifth inning to make the score 4-1.
Schneider gave Stout a 6-1 lead with a two-run single in the sixth inning before Stout broke out for five runs in the fifth inning and took a 10-run lead.
Noah Brown drove in a run with a shot to right field. Kruse smacked a two-run double and Stout had a 9-1 lead. Nalbach singled in a run before Schneider added his fifth RBI with a single to left field.
Winning pitcher
Patrick Gullickson got three straight groundouts to end the game in the seventh inning. Gullickson went the distance for the win, allowing one earned run, six hits and struck out three.
Schneider was 3-for-5, while Kruse was 1-for-2 and Nalbach was 2-for-2 and drew two walks. The Blue Devils racked up four stolen bases in the contest, one each by Nalbach, Brown,
Clay Gale and
Charlie Meyer. The Blue Devils outhit the Yellowjackets 8-6.
Stout will close out the season when they host third-ranked UW-Whitewater, Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3. First pitch is noon each day.
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