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Baseball Team Uses Offensive Attack to Sweep Augsburg UW-Stevens Point pounded out 25 runs and 28 hits in sweeping a pair of non-conference baseball games from Augsburg Thursday at Parade Stadium in Minneapolis. The Pointers won the opening game 13-2 and then added 16 hits in the second game, a 12-9 victory, as Randy Reed went four-for-four with three RBI's. UW-Stevens Point, ranked 23rd in the NCAA Division III, is now 17-4 and has won six straight, including 13 of its last 14 games entering Saturday's Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener at UW-Whitewater. In the opener, UW-Stevens Point scored four runs in the first inning with the aid of just one hit, benefitting from three walks and three hit batsmen. The Pointers added three runs in the second inning as Jon Jagler reached on an error and scored on a one-out triple by Rob Govek. Two batters later, Kevin Fry hit a run-scoring triple and scored on a single by Ryan Ivy. Pat McCann scored in the fourth inning on a groundball by Eric Bennett for an 8-1 lead and the Pointers added five runs in the seventh with just one hit, four walks and two errors. Fry finished three-for-five with three RBI's and Mike McCann was also three-for-five. Ivy drove in three runs as each team left 12 runners on base. Jared Szews scattered eight hits over four innings for the win. David Busse pitched two innings of relief and Bill Verbrick pitched the seventh. The Pointers also used a big first inning in the second game, scoring six unearned runs. Matt Peetz, Fry and Reed all had run-scoring singles, while Nick Cahoon drilled a two-run triple and Pat McCann had a sacrifice fly. Augsburg scored five unearned runs off three UW-Stevens Point errors in the bottom of the second, but the Pointers took a 9-5 lead in the third on a three-run double by Matt Peetz. After the Auggies scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings, Reed had RBI singles in the fourth and sixth, while Cahoon added an RBI single in the sixth for a 12-7 lead. Augsburg scored two runs in the seventh for the final scoring. Cahoon finished three-for-four and Peetz was two-for-five with four RBI's. Freshman Jeremy Zimmerman earned his first career win by pitching the first four innings. Pat Bloom, Eric Schlender and Justin Duerkop each threw one inning of relief. |
Offensive Power Downs Augsburg