UW-Whitewater 11, UW-Stout 9 |
UW-Whitewater 4, UW-Stout 3
WHITEWATER (April 14, 2019) - UW-Stout hung with 23rd-ranked UW-Whitewater in two different types of contest, the first a free-wheeling high scoring game and the second a much lower scoring affair as the Warhawks took an 11-9 first game win and a 4-3 second game win Saturday at Prucha Field in Miller Park.
The teams were scheduled to wrap up the series Sunday, but the doubleheader has been pushed back to Monday, April 15.
Game one was not destined to be a pitchers duel as the two teams combined for 20 runs and 27 hits with the Warhawks getting 15 hits and Stout 12.
Whitewater (14-6, 7-1 WIAC) scored three runs in the bottom of the first, but Stout (10-7, 5-5 WIAC) answered back with a four-run second inning, taking advantage of two Warhawk errors.
Reid Akerman and
Kasey Bass drove in runs and Warhawk miscues accounted for two more run. But the Warhawks turned the game around in their half of the inning, scoring four times with four hits and left the bases loaded.
Alex Jinkins cut the lead for Stout to 7-5 with his first home run as a Blue Devil, a one-out shot. Whitewater scored in the fourth on a Mike Aiello home run and the Blue Devils brought the score to 8-7 with a two-run fifth. Jinkins notched his second RBI of the day with an RBI single through the left side and
Kyle Hamilton brought home
Caleb Hurt with a left side single. In what was becoming a theme, the Warhawks answered back, this time with three runs in bottom of the fifth to make the score 11-7.
Akerman pulled the score to within two runs with his first home run of the year, the second of his career, in the eighth inning, bringing in
Jared Jarvensivu, who led off with a right field single.
Jack Donahue was saddled with the loss, going two innings, and giving up seven earned runs on eight hits.
Robert Pilz surrendered three earned runs.
Brandon Bohl worked the final 3.1 innings, scattering three hits and no runs, striking out four. The three pitchers combined for nine strikeouts.
Joel Thimsen was 3-for-5 to lead Stout. Bass, Jinkins, Akerman and Hamilton each went 2-for-4. Akerman drove in three runs. For the Warhawks, Nick Santoro and Nick Schrader each had three hits, with Schrader driving in three runs and Santoro two. Aiello had two hits and two RBI. Matt Korman had two hits.
The nightcap produced 17 total hits, but fewer than twice as many runs than the first match.
Jordan Wilson, who was held hitless for only the third time this season in the first game, got the Blue Devils started off from the get-go, smashing a lead-off triple to right field. Wilson gave Stout their first run of the game on Bass' sacrifice fly. Stout doubled the score in the second inning when Jinkins struck with a lead-off double and came home two batters later on Jarvensivu's outfield single.
The Warhawks tied the score on back-to-back RBIs by the team's eight and nine hitters, Bryan Sturde and Noah Jensen. A Stout error in the fifth inning led to Whitewater's go-ahead run.
The Blue Devils answered back and tied the game in the top of the sixth. Whitewater would get what would prove to be the game winning run in the bottom of the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Santoro. Stout left a runner stranded on second base in the seventh inning and a runner on third in the ninth.
Brad Rindfleisch went 6.2 innings, giving up three earned runs by scattering 10 hits with two walks and eight strikeouts. The Warhawks' Matt O'Sullivan went the distance, throwing more than 130 pitches, striking out nine.
Wilson and Jarvensivu were both 2-for-4 for the Blue Devils. Santoro, Aiello, Jensen and Connor Moroder each punched out two hits for the Warhawks.
The teams are scheduled to to complete the series Sunday, April 14 at noon, weather permitting.
