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Pointers Have
Tables Turned by Red Hawks
After beating Ripon in two close games to reach
last season�s NCAA Division III World Series, UW-Stevens Point had the
tables turned on Saturday as the Red Hawks pulled out 4-2 and 10-9 victories
at University Field in Stevens Point.
Ripon�s Jordan Baitinger pitched a complete game
in the opener and took advantage of several UW-Stevens Point baserunning
miscues.
The Red Hawks scored twice in the second inning as
John Dunlavy hit a solo home run and Chad Olson ripped a run-scoring single.
UW-Stevens Point tied the game in the fourth as Brad Archambeau led off the
inning with a triple and scored on a wild pitch before Brandon Scheidler
delivered a run-scoring double.
Ripon broke the tie in the seventh as Mac Schumann
reached on a single and moved to second on a one-out balk where he scored on
a single by Dunlavy. Ripon added another run in the ninth as Dunlavy hit a
sacrifice fly.
The Pointers had three runners reach in the ninth,
but had one thrown out attempting to take third base on a shallow single to
leftfield. UW-Stevens Point, which had 10 hits, also had a runner picked off
and one thrown out at the plate in the loss.
The second game lasted 12 innings as UW-Stevens
Point jumped out to a 7-0 lead after four innings and then had to rally with
two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. Ripon�s Kyle McFarland,
who had a two-out error to allow the tying run in the ninth, made up for it
in the 12th with a game-winning solo home run.
UW-Stevens Point got two runs in the second and
third innings and then posted three runs in the fourth for the 7-0
advantage. The Pointers had nine of their 13 hits in the first four innings
and were then silenced by Ripon reliever Bryant Bednarek, who retired 11
straight batters at one point. Joel Hojnacki had three hits in the first
four innings and finished four-for-seven for the game.
The Red Hawks chipped away at the lead and took it
with a five-run eighth inning, tying the game on a sacrifice fly by
McFarland and taking the lead on a two-out, two-run double by Schumann.
In the bottom of the ninth, Stewart Larsen drove
in a run on a groundout and then pinch runner Kyle Cummings scored on an
error to extend the game.
Pointers� pitcher Devin Bressers, who had thrown
three career innings, kept the Red Hawks scoreless in the ninth, 10th and
11th before surrendering McFarland�s drive to left field in the 12th.
UW-Stevens Point fell to 16-11 with the losses, while Ripon has now won 10
straight games and is 13-8. |
