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One Big Inning
Prevents Pointers From Sweep
One big inning prevented the UW-Stevens Point
baseball team from a sweep of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
opponents on Wednesday in Port Charlotte, Fla.
After rolling past St. Thomas 8-1 in the opening
game, the Pointers lost to Bethel 7-4 as the Royals scored all seven of
their runs in the seventh inning. UW-Stevens Point is now 4-3 on its Florida
trip and 6-3 overall.
St. Thomas scored in the opening inning against
the Pointers, but UW-Stevens Point responded with four runs in the second
and eventually pulled away from the Tommies. Jordan Zimmermann pitched seven
innings, allowing no earned runs and five hits with six strikeouts in his
first start of the year for the Pointers.
Brandon Scheidler had a run-scoring triple in the
second inning and added an RBI single in the third while finishing
three-for-five. Justin Bushong highlighted the four-run inning with a
two-run double. Tim Schlosser added a pinch-hit RBI double in the eighth and
Ryan Byrnes hit his second triple of the game to drive in a run in the
ninth.
Travis Kempf pitched six strong innings in the
second game and took a 1-0 lead into the seventh when Bethel took advantage
of several mistakes from the Pointers� defense for its one big inning. The
Royals had five of their eight hits in the frame and scored five runs after
a two-out error.
The Pointers rallied with two runs in the bottom
of the seventh on a two-run single by Scheidler and scored another in the
eighth on a base hit by Brad Archambeau. UW-Stevens Point had nine hits and
Bethel had four errors, but the Pointers left 13 runners on base, including
nine in scoring position. The Pointers had runners on second and third base
with less than two outs in three different innings and failed to score each
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