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Pitching Dominates
for Pointers in WIAC Opener
Two dominating pitching performances carried the
UW-Stevens Point baseball team to a doubleheader sweep of UW-Platteville
Saturday in its Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener at
University Field.
Pointers� sophomore Jordan Zimmermann tied a
45-year old school record in a 7-2 opening game victory with 14 strikeouts,
while senior Josh Perkins matched his career-high with nine strikeouts in a
10-0 second game triumph.
The win pushed the Pointers to 6-5 overall, while
UW-Platteville fell to 6-6. The teams meet again in another doubleheader on
Sunday at noon in Stevens Point.
Zimmermann struck out the side in both the first
and ninth innings in his 14-strikeout performance that tied the record set
by Bill Kuse against UW-Milwaukee in 1961. Eight of his 14 strikeouts came
on a called third strike. Zimmermann walked one and allowed just four hits
and one earned run while setting down the last 11 batters in his complete
game victory.
The Pointers jumped on the Pioneers with four runs
in the second inning as Tim Schlosser and Jake Frombach each had run-scoring
doubles and Adam Evanoff launched a two-run home run. Chuck Brehm added a
solo homer in the seventh for the Pointers, who totaled 11 hits in the
victory. Frombach led the Pointers at three-for-five.
Perkins allowed just one runner past second base
in earning his fourth career complete game shutout. In fact, it was his
second straight shutout at home as he also had a shutout in his most recent
start at University Field against UW-Oshkosh on May 3, 2003. Perkins
scattered three hits and walked four, working out of a bases loaded jam in
the top of the seventh to preserve the shutout.
UW-Stevens Point�s first four batters reached base
and all scored in both the first and fifth innings. Brehm drew bases loaded
walks to plate the first run in each inning, while Tim Schlosser added a
sacrifice fly in the first and a two-run single in the fifth. Evanoff had a
run-scoring single in the first and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Doug Coe ended the game by the 10-run rule with a
two-run homer after Nat Richter walked to lead off the bottom of the
seventh. |
