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Pointers Drop Pair
of Heartbreakers to Presidents
One out away from victory in each game, the
UW-Stevens Point baseball team let a pair of late leads slip away to
Washington & Jefferson on Monday, suffering 4-3 and 5-4 losses in Port
Charlotte, Fla.
The first game went 11 innings as the Pointers
have now suffered three straight one-run losses and fell to 2-4 overall on
their spring trip. UW-Stevens Point has a day off on Tuesday and then plays
Millikin (Ill.) and Hope (Mich.) on Wednesday.
The Pointers actually used dramatics of their own
to force extra innings in the opening game as Washington & Jefferson took a
2-1 lead on an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth of the seven-inning
game.
With two outs and nobody on base on the top of the
seventh, Joel Hojnacki hit an infield single and Jake Frombach followed with
a bunt single before Nat Richter singled to right field to tie the game. The
Presidents had runners on first and third in the bottom of the seventh when
Matt Mehne entered the game in relief for the Pointers and forced a double
play groundout when the runner from third was tagged out in a rundown and
the runner from first was out attempting to take third.
UW-Stevens Point went ahead 3-2 in the top of the
ninth when Hojnacki singled with two outs, advanced to second on a wild
pitch and scored on a single by Frombach. Washington & Jefferson�s Justin
Benson then drilled a two-out home run to right field to even the score
again. The Presidents won the game on a run-scoring single by Nick Fiorilli
with one out in the 11th. Mehne was credited with the loss for the Pointers.
The Pointers were in control of the second game
with a 4-1 lead heading into the top of the seventh, but the Presidents got
four runs, tying the game on a two-out, run-scoring triple by Fiorilli and
then taking the lead on a single by Benson. The Pointers stranded a runner
at second base in the bottom of the inning to end the game.
After Washington & Jefferson scored in the top of
the first inning, the Pointers rallied with a bases loaded walk by Ben
Warwick and a sacrifice fly by Hojnacki. Frombach added a two-run single
with two outs in the bottom of the sixth for a 4-1 lead. Mike Thrun took the
loss for the Pointers in relief of Travis Kempf, who allowed five hits over
six innings. Frombach was three-for-six in the first game and two-for-four
in the second. |
