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Pointers Finish
Off Four-Game Sweep of Superior
UW-Stevens Point finished off a four-game weekend
baseball sweep of UW-Superior on Sunday by taking 17-6 and 10-2 victories
over the Yellowjackets at University Field in Stevens Point.
The Pointers had 24 hits in the doubleheader and
took advantage of 19 walks to earn the two victories and run their record to
15-8 overall and 9-2 in Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.
UW-Superior dropped to 7-17 overall and 1-11 in the WIAC.
UW-Stevens Point was the visiting team and scored
five runs on two hits in the opening inning of the first game. The Pointers
walked four times in the frame, including bases loaded passes to Brandon
Scheidler and Tim Schlosser.
UW-Superior bounced back with six runs after two
outs and nobody on base in the bottom of the inning. The Yellowjackets also
took advantage of patient hitting as Ryan Leer�s three-run double was the
only hit of the inning. UW-Superior drew five walks in the frame.
Pointers� pitcher Brandon Hemstead settled down
from that point and did not allow a run or a walk over the next five innings
to earn the victory. The Pointers took the lead with a four-run fourth
inning that also featured just one hit was Scheidler and Larsen put the team
ahead with two more bases loaded walks. Ryan Byrnes added a two-run triple
in the fifth and Joel Hojnacki launched a two-run homer in the sixth.
Scheidler reached base all five times and finished three-for-three with
three RBI�s.
Mike Thrun had a solid pitching performance in the
second game, allowing just four hits and one earned run over seven innings.
Matt Mehne and Lucas Hoeschele each provided one inning of scoreless relief.
The Pointers took an early lead when Adam Evanoff,
who was four-for-six, hit a run-scoring double and Scheidler drove in a run
on a groundout. Hojnacki added a two-run homer for his second round-tripper
of the day for a 4-0 lead in the second inning.
UW-Superior scored two runs in the fifth inning,
but the Pointers got a solo homer from Scheidler in the seventh to push the
lead back to 5-2. They added three more runs in the eighth and two in the
ninth for the final margin. |
