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Perkins Ties
School Record to Keep Pointers Alive
Josh Perkins tied a school
record with 15 strikeouts against UW-Oshkosh Saturday afternoon at the
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament in
Wisconsin Rapids as UW-Stevens Point avoided elimination with a 3-0 victory.
Perkins had strikeouts in
every inning against the Titans as he tied the school mark set by Mike Thrun
on May 2 at Marian. Perkins' previous career-high in strikeouts was 10, also
against UW-Oshkosh on April 29. The senior righthander improved to 5-2 on the season as he
allowed only five hits and four walks in the complete game shutout. Perkins
didn't allow a hit after the fourth inning.
UW-Stevens Point scored all
three of its runs in the third inning as Nat Richter's RBI single scored
Brandon Scheidler for the first run of the game. Ryan Byrnes added an RBI
double and Adam Evanoff's RBI single scored Byrnes to give the Pointers all
of the offense they would need behind Perkins.
UW-Oshkosh threatened to get
on the board in the fourth inning when Josh Shere singled to lead off the
inning. Shere advanced to second on a balk and tried to score on a single to
right by Brad Demmin, but Scheidler threw him out at the plate to keep the
shutout in place.
Seven Pointers had hits in the
game as UW-Stevens Point will play the loser of UW-La Crosse and
UW-Whitewater Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m.
In the first game of the day,
UW-Stevens Point suffered a heartbreaking loss to UW-Whitewater as the Warhawks
scored four runs in the ninth inning to win 5-4.
UW-Whitewater scored on a solo
home run to open the inning and plated three more runs, all after two outs,
on one hit, two walks, a hit batter and two errors to finish the game. The
tying run scored on a two-out, bases loaded catcher's interference call and
the winning run came home on an error on the following play.
Byrnes got the Pointers on the
board in the first inning with an RBI single scoring Richter. UW-Stevens
Point added to their lead in the seventh inning, scoring a pair of runs on
an RBI single by Jake Frombach and scoring on an error by the Warhawks'
shortstop.
UW-Whitewater scored in the
bottom of the eighth with an RBI single by Matt Schliewe to tighten the
score at 3-1. Byrnes hit a two-out home run to give the Pointers a three-run
lead going to the bottom of the ninth.
Jordan Zimmermann pitched
eight and two-third innings allowing four runs, three earned, on five hits
with nine strikeouts. Travis Kempf took the loss for the Pointers allowing
one unearned run on one hit and one walk.
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