A visit to the Metrodome left the Warhawks with two wins Saturday.

Box Score Game 1
Box Score Game 2

UW-Whitewater swept St. Cloud State and improved its overall record to 8-2 by winning a doubleheader by scores of 4-2 and 11-3.

In game one, senior Adam Dominick (Waukesha/Waukesha West) pitched six innings allowing no earned runs on five hits and one walk and striking out seven batters while earning the win.

UW-Whitewater opened the scoring in the second inning.  After Kevin Zalnis (Woodstock, IL/Woodstock) tripled, Ben Prather (Chicago, IL/James B. Conant) knocked him in on a single.  The Warhawks never looked back.

Zalnis tripled again in the fourth and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Thomas Donovan.  One batter later, Billy Johnson (Kenosha/Kenosha Tremper) doubled in another run pushing the score to 3-0.

The Warhawks added their final run in the sixth on an RBI-single from Johnson.

The Huskies made the game interesting in the top of the seventh.

Mike Jacobson (Oak Creek/Oak Creek) relieved Dominick and faced only two batters, allowing one base runner on a walk.  He was then replaced by Kale Olson (Rochester, MN/Century) who allowed two runs, one earned, on an RBI-double from Luke Klitzke and an RBI-single from Kyle Resser.

With the two runners on base and only one out, Olson fanned the next two batters to earn the save and preserve the victory.

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The second game of the doubleheader yielded less drama but, nevertheless, earned the Warhawks an 11-3 victory.

After St. Cloud State jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, UW-Whitewater used a six run second inning, capped off by a two-run home run by Jeff Donovan (Wauwatosa/Wauwatosa East), to jet ahead.

The Warhawks added three runs in the fourth and one each in the fifth and sixth innings.

Pitcher Aaron Dott (Green Lake/Green Lake) threw five strong innings allowing only two runs on two hits and one walk while fanning six.

During the two games UW-W accumulated twenty-nine hits in sixty-four at-bats for a .453 team average.

The Warhawks will host Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rival UW-Oshkosh Saturday, April 5, and Sunday, April 6, at noon.  Sunday marks Youth Day and all children are invited to attend.

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John Vodenlich