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THIS WEEK'S GAMES: UW-Stout (3-3, 0-0 WIAC) will begin the WIAC season this week with a pair of doubleheaders against UW-Stevens Point (4-2, 0-0 WIAC). Stout will be at Stevens Point, Thursday, April 1 - that is a date change due to cold weather forecaste for the original date of March 31 - then will host the Pointers, Friday, April 2, First pitch both days is scheduled for 12 p.m., and that also a time change. The Blue Devils are coming off a 3-1, 13-3, sweep of UW-Eau Claire, March 27, while the Pointers are coming off a home sweep of UW-Oshkosh, 11-1, 7-2, March 29.
WHEN THEY MET YESTERDAY: In the first day of a two-day series, UW-Stevens Point captured both games over UW-Stout, taking a 7-inning 12-2 first game win, then turning around and sealing the day with a 5-1 second game win in the conference opener for both teams Thursday at Zimmermann Field. The Pointers recorded 12 hits to Stout's seven hits as the Blue Devils stranded 10 runners. Stevens Point opened the game with a four-run first inning on three hits highlighted by Lucas Luedtke's two-run double, chasing Stout's
Jace Baumann in his first appearance of the season. The Pointers added a run in the third, then scored three more in the fifth before Stout got on the board in the top of the sixth. The Blue Devils took advantage of several Stevens Point mistakes in the inning.
Kasey Bass got on with an error, then moved to second on a wild pitch. Bass moved to third on
Paul Weise's single, then came home, along with
Hunter Merrill, when
Levi Wilson's grounder to second base was misplayed and Stevens Point led 8-2. The Blue Devils stranded three runners in the sixth inning and Stevens Point went on to add two runs in the sixth and ended the game with two runs in the seventh on Tommy Duddleston's double.
Hunter Merrill and
Paul Weise were 2 for 3 for Stout. Bradley Comer was 2 for 4 with two RBI to lead the Pointers. Luedtke was 2 for 4 with three RBI. Duddleston, Aaron Simmons, and Payton Nelson each had three hits. Duddleston and Nelson drove in two runs each. The Pointers' Nick Carpenter went 5.2 innings, scattering five hits and allowed two runs, while striking out five and walking three to get the win.
Jace Baumann was saddled with the loss, scattering three hits, allowing four runs, two earned, in one inning.
Brock Burg went four innings for Stout and
Logan Hile worked 1.1 innings. The Blue Devils the first lead in the second game, scoring a run in the fourth inning.
Charlie Szykowny led off the inning with a triple, then scored when Bass reached safely on an infield error. The Pointers took the lead in the fifth with two runs, then added a single run in the sixth and two runs in the eighth. Three Pointer pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts. Starter JD Schultz accounted for eight strikeouts and alllowed one hit and one run over six innings. Tyler Beyer had four strikeouts over two innings and Sidney Ferry had two strikeouts in one inning.
Ethan Kjellberg went six innings, striking out two and allowing three runs to take the loss.
Bret Lecheler and
Luke Kallod worked the final two innings. Stevens Point finished with 10 hits to Stout's four. Simmons and Matt Baumann each had two hits for the Pointers. Comer had a home run.
Alex Jinkins was 2 for 3 for Stout.
LAST YEAR WHEN THEY MET: For the first time ever, UW-Stout swept a four-game series over UW-Stevens Point, completing the four wins April 29, 2019, with a 4-2, 2-1, sweep at Nelson Field. Stout had won both games the day before, 12-0, 5-4. The win put the Blue Devils into the WIAC Tournament for the first time since the 2015 season. Brad Rindfleisch went the distance in game one, striking out six, walking three and scattering seven hits. The Blue Devils scored twice in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI by
Joel Thimsen and on
Hunter Merrill's fielder's choice. The Pointers tied the score in the fourth inning on a two-run double by Gabe Affeldt. Stout took the lead when Danny Deis reached on an infield error and
Kyle Hamilton scored from second. Stout added an insurance run in the eighth inning on Jordan Wilson's RBI double. Wilson was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI as the Pointers outhit Stout, 7-5. Thimsen, Hamilton and Caleb Hurt each had a hit. All of the scoring in game two occurred in the first inning. The Pointers took 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Stout came back to get all they really would need in the bottom of the inning. Wilson led off with a single, then stole second following a flyout. A wild pitch put Wilson on third. Jack Hemsath drew a walk.
Kasey Bass' single brought home Wilson to tie the score and move Hemsath to third. Following another flyout,
Alex Jinkins reached on a fielder's choice and Hemsath raced home when the throw to second base was off the mark. Blue Devil reliever
Jace Baumann made his first start and went five innings, allowing only the one run, four hits and striking out two to get the win.
Cody Urban and Brandon Bohl pitched the middle innings and held the Pointers to two hits. Robert Pilz came on in the ninth inning and earned his first collegiate save. Pilz allowed a two-out walk, but forced a fly out to end the game. The Blue Devils were limited to three hits to the Pointers' six in game two. Wilson, Bass and
Reid Akerman each had a hit. The series of four games began with the 2002 season. Previous to that season, the teams played each other in a single doubleheader series for several years. When UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls and UW-Superior field baseball teams in the old WSUC, the conference was divided into Northern and Southern divisions, with Stout playing Eau Claire, River Falls, Superior and La Crosse. The Northern and Southern division champions would meet in a playoff series.
2021 WIAC SCHEDULE: The schedule for each of the teams in the WIAC in 2021 includes 28 conference games, as well as a "non-conference schedule" consisting of contests against only WIAC schools. The league has been separated into divisions, with Stout, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse and UW-Platteville in the West Division and UW-Whitewater, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Stevens Point and Finlandia in the East Division. The teams will play the schools in the same division in four doubleheaders, with two of the doubleheaders serving as non-conference contests. Two doubleheaders will serve as conference contests. The conference tournament has been expanded to six teams with the No. 3 thru No. 6 seeds participating in "play-in" games at the site of the higher seed on May 19. The winners of the single-elimination contests will join the No. 1 seed and No. 2 seed at the double-elimination finals in Whitewater May 21-22.
2021 UW-Stout Baseball Schedule
Date / Opponent / Time or Result
Sat, Mar. 20 / at UW-Platteville / W 16-2 (7), L 11-6
Thurs, Mar. 25 / at UW-La Crosse / L 11-5, L 6-1
Sat, Mar. 27 / UW-Eau Claire (at River Falls) / W 3-1, W 13-3 (7)
Thur, Apr. 1 / at UW-Stevens Point* / L 12-2 (7), L 5-1
Fri, Apr. 2 / UW-Stevens Point* / 12 p.m. (note time change)
Tues, Apr. 6 / at UW-Eau Claire* / 1 p.m.
Fri, Apr. 9 / UW-Eau Claire* / 1 p.m.
Sat, Apr. 10 / at UW-Eau Claire / 2:30 p.m.
Wed, Apr. 14 / at UW-Oshkosh* / 1 p.m.
Sat, Apr. 17 / UW-Oshkosh* / 1 p.m.
Tues, Apr. 20 / UW-La Crosse* / 1 p.m.
Fri, Apr. 23 / at UW-La Crosse* / 1 p.m.
Sat, Apr. 24 / UW-La Crosse / 1 p.m.
Wed, Apr. 28 / at UW-Whitewater* / 1 p.m.
Sat, May 1 / UW-Whitewater* / 1 p.m.
Tues, May 4 / UW-Platteville* / 1 p.m.
Fri, May 7 / at UW-Platteville* / 1 p.m.
Sat, May 8 / UW-Platteville / 1 p.m.
Fri, May 14 / Finlandia University* / 1 p.m.
Sat, May 15 / Finlandia University* / 1 p.m.
PARKING: There is no free parking for weekday baseball & softball games. Regular parking restrictions are strictly enforced. Parking for baseball and softball spectators during weekday games is restricted to on-street parking and in Lot 29. Spectators that park in Lot 29 (located just north of the outdoor track) must pay parking fees and register their license plate at the pay station near the main East entrance of the Sports & Fitness Center. Lot 29 parking restrictions end at 4 pm on Monday through Friday.
DO NOT PARK in Lot 4 during the week. Lot 4 is the parking lot located to the west of the Sports & Fitness Center and north of Don & Nona Williams Stadium (the football stadium).
Lot 4 is only open to the general public from 1 p.m. on Fridays until 9 p.m. on Sundays. There is no general parking in Lot 4 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays and not until 1 pm on Fridays. Team buses may park on the east side (outdoor track side - not the metered side) of 3rd Street East. Parking is permitted in all university lots on weekends.
BLUE DEVIL OFFENSE: Junior shortstop
Charlie Szykowny is hitting .345 (10-29) with five RBI and one of Stout's three home runs to lead the Blue Devils. Freshman outfielder
Riley Boushack is hitting at a .308 clip (8-26) with a team-best seven RBI, with two runs scored and one double.
Kasey Bass is hitting .304 (7-23) with five RBI and a home run. |
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BLUE DEVIL PITCHING: James Palmer has earned two wins so far this season in two outings and was selected the WIAC pitcher of the week after a season-opening win over UW-Platteville, going six full innings, with nine strikeouts and no walks. Palmer went eight innings and struck out 10 against UW-Eau Claire last weekend has has an ERA of 1.93. Palmer has 19 strikeouts.
Cody Urban has worked two games, going 1-1 with an ERA of 5.79.
Brock Burg,
Jace Baumann and
Ethan Kjellberg have notched Stout's other starts.
Alex Mahaz has worked 3.2 innings in relief, and has a save.
UW-STOUT LAST TIME OUT:
James Palmer pitched eight strong innings and
Alex Mahaz picked up the save in game one and UW-Stout exploded for 13 runs in the second game to earn a soggy split with UW-Eau Claire on a rainy, chilly March afternoon at First National Bank of River Falls Field Saturday. Palmer collected his second win of the season in as many outings, going two more innings than his previous best and and set a new personal-best in collecting 10 strikeouts, one more than his last outing as he scattered four hits. Mahaz came on to earn his first save of the season, facing four batters in the ninth, striking out one and allowed a hit. Eau Claire got on the board first when lead-off hitter Nate Witte tripled to open the game, then came home on a sacrifice bunt by Logan Matson. But Palmer shut the door the rest of the way, allowing no more runners past second base. Stout (3-3) answered back in the bottom of the first inning. With one out,
Charlie Szykowny walked, then came home on
Joel Thimsen's home run to left field, Thimsen's first home run of the season and the second of his career, to give Stout a 2-1 lead. And that's the way the score would remain until the seventh inning when
Kasey Bass doubled, moved to third on a groundout and came home on a balk. It wasn't that Blue Devils didn't have opportunities to score. Stout stranded 10 runners throughout the game and left one runner stranded in every inning but one. Stout held a 7-5 advantage in hits as six Blue Devil batters recorded hits, with
Colin Hageman going 2 for 4. In game twio,
Riley Boushack drove in two unearned runs as Stout took advantage of Eau Claire miscues to get on the board first. Eau Claire cut the lead in half when catcher Cade Mueller hit a solo home run in the second inning. Stout got that run back in the bottom half of the inning.
Hunter Merrill drew a two out walk, stole second, then came home on Szykowny's single to center field. Stout added a single run in the fourth when
Levi Wilson scored on a wild pitch. Eau Claire committed two errors in the fifth and Stout made the Blugolds pay to the tune of five runs. Thimsen led off the inning with a double, then came home on
Kasey Bass' left field single.
Levi Wilson sliced a double down the right field line to score two,
Justin Schnell drove in a run when he reached on an error. Schnell stole second, then came home on a double by
Hunter Merrill. Stout committed two errors in the sixth inning, allowing two Eau Claire runs to cut the lead to 9-3. The Blue Devils stretched the lead to 10 runs with a four-run sixth inning. Schnell drew a bases loaded walk, Hageman sliced a two run single through the left side and Schnell scored on Merril's fielders choice. Eau Claire had a chance in the seventh inning to extend the lead. Will Jilek led off with a single., but was left stranded at second. Relief pitcher
Dak Doyle racked up a strikeout, then forced a groundout to first. With a runner in scoring position, second baseman
Levi Wilson made a solid play to plug the hole between first and second and threw out the third out from deep in the hole to seal the win. Stout held an 8-6 advantage in hits. Boushack led the way with two hits and drove in a pair of runs. Merrill, Wilson, Schnell and Hageman each recorded two RBI.
Cody Urban worked 6.0 innings, striking out four, giving up three runs, but only one earned run to chalk up his first win of the season. Doyle allowed one hit and struck out one to clinch the game in the seventh inning, forcing two groundouts. |
Game Story and Stats
SCOUTING UW-STEVENS POINT: The Pointers are under first year coach Nat Richter and return all-conference senior outfielders Payton Nelson and Aaron Simmons. Nelson is hitting .444 (12-27) with 12 RBI, including a home run, a triple and three doubles. Simmons is hitting .438 (14-32) with 11 RBI with three home runs, two triples and three doubles for a slugging percentage of .938. Lucas Luedtke also has three home runs. Bradley Comer is hitting .357 (10-28) with 10 RBI, two home runs and two doubles. Jacob Lillge has seen limited action over six games, but is hitting .467 (7-13). |
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LAST TIME OUT: Stevens Point hit four home runs and had five multi-run innings to complete a sweep of UW-Oshkosh (2-4) on Monday. The Pointers rolled to an 11-1 run-rule win in game one and took game two by a 7-2 final. Aaron Simmons had three hits on the day, including a pair of home runs. He drove in four runs and scored three times. Bradley Comer had two hits in each game. He also hit a home run, drove in four and had three runs scored. Payton Nelson had a pair of hits in game two with three RBI and a run scored. Tommy Duddleston also had three runs batted in in game two. He scored a run in each game. Jacob Lillge went 4-for-4 in game two with an RBI and a run scored. |
Game Story and Stats
TEAM CAPTAINS: Kasey Bass,
Hunter Merrill,
Dan Deis and
Jace Baumann will serve as 2021 team captains.
AWARDS AND HONORS: 2021: James Palmer earned WIAC player of the week honors after recording nine strikeouts in a season-opening 16-2 win over UW-Platteville...
2020: Charlie Szykowny earned WIAC player of the week honors after the Blue Devils went 2-1 in their only games of the 2020 season.
COACHES: Ben Kincaid (45-75) is in his fifth year as the Blue Devils' head coach with the 2021 season, following two years as a Blue Devil assistant coach where he worked primarily with the pitchers. Kincaid played collegiately at at Minnesota State University-Mankato, where he was a four year letter winner, playing in 149 games. He finished with a .339 batting average, 38 doubles (5th on MSU's career list), six home runs and 140 runs batted in (6th on MSU's career list). As a right-handed pitcher he sported a 14-8 record with a 3.45 earned run average and had 148 strikeouts in 172 innings pitched. Kincaid was named to the All-Central Region team three times in his career. An Eau Claire native, Kincaid played for the local Eau Claire Express.
DOWN THE ROAD: The Blue Devils are scheduled to play three doubleheaders with UW-Eau Claire, traveling to Eau Claire, Tuesday, April 6, hosting the Blugolds, Friday, April 9, then returning to Eau Claire, Saturday, April 10 for a 2:30 p.m. game, followed by a game under the Carson Park lights at 6:30 p.m.
