Box Score The Warhawk baseball team improved to 7-4 with a 16-5 victory over Southern Maine in Lake Myrtle, Florida Wednesday.  UW-Whitewater has now concluded competition on their spring trip.  Southern Maine falls to 6-7 this season.

UW-W got going right away in the first and notched a run when JT Schneider (Oak Creek/Oak Creek) scored on a Jared Fon (Germantown/Germantown) hit.  The Huskies answered in the bottom half of the inning to knot the score at one.

UW-W jumped out to a 10-1 lead after three and a half, scoring three runs in each of the second, third, and fourth innings.

Southern Maine retaliated with a run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 10-2 but UW-W tacked on three more in the top of the sixth to extend their lead to 13-2.

A Husky run in the bottom of the sixth and two more in the bottom of the seventh made it 13-5, but another three spot by the Warhawks in the top of the eighth gave them a 16-5 lead, a lead that held until the conclusion of the game.

The Warhawks recorded season highs in the game in at bats (42), runs scored (16), hits (19), and RBIs (13).  UW-W also recorded four doubles and eight walks.

Marty Herum (River Falls/River Falls) led the way with five hits, two were doubles, and he scored three runs.  Samuel Keller Jr. (Milwaukee/Riverside) tallied four hits, one run scored, and one RBI.  David Cladis (Joliet, IL/Joliet Catholic), Dylan Friend (Burlington/Burlington), Tim Conroy (Barrington, IL/Barrington) and Andrew Bauer (Hartland/Arrowhead) each recorded two RBIs and ten different Warhawks recorded a hit in the game.

Four pitchers combined to hold the Huskies to five runs but it was Matthew Roberts (Manitowoc /Roncalli) that earned the win pitching four innings, giving up four hits and two runs, striking out four and walking none.  Roberts is now 1-1 this season.  Aaron Leitner (Chilton/Chilton), Tom Kerndt (Lansing, IA/Lansing) and Eric Schmitz (Fond du Lac/Fond du Lac) all split time on the mound for the remainder of the game.  Schmitz may have perhaps had the most notable performance pitching two perfect innings and striking out two.

UW-W will remain on the road, only this time they return to Wisconsin, to face Ripon on Saturday, March 31 for a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 pm.

For additional information, John Vodenlich, UW-W head baseball coach