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Sauget, Ill. – The No. 14 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team swept Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Ind.) in a pair of games on Saturday afternoon to advance to its eighth NCAA Division III College World Series and fourth since 2008.
 
It is the sixth appearance under head coach John Vodenlich, who became the 43rd active coach in NCAA Division III to reach 500 career wins.

UW-Whitewater will open NCAA Championship play Friday, May 27, when it will take on the winner of the Washington (Pa.) Regional. First pitch is set for approximately 7:45 p.m. at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wis.
 
The Warhawks (34-15 overall) defeated the Fighting Engineers (33-13) 11-0 in the first contest and took the night cap by a score of 5-3.
 
In the first game, senior righty Curtis Morgan (Green Lake/Green Lake) pitched a complete game shutout to pick up his seventh victory of the season. Morgan only gave up five hits to go along with eight strike outs.
 
Sophomore centerfielder Daytona Bryden (Rockton, IL/Hononegah) finished 4-for-6 at the plate and scored three runs to lead the offense for UW-Whitewater. Sophomores Austin Jones (Wauwatosa, Wis./West), Will Helbing (Waunakee, Wis./Waunakee) and freshman outfielder Matt Wary (Elk Grove, Ill./Elk Grove) each posted two hits apiece. Helbing and Jones each scored a run and drove in two.
 
Sophomore first baseman Blake Fleischman (Germantown, Wis./Germantown), junior second baseman Steve Chamberlain (Rockford, IL/Guilford), freshman Cal Aldridge (Crystal Lake, Ill./Prairie Ridge), and junior short stop Jordan Kuczynski (Germantown/Germantown) all posted one hit apiece. Aldridge got the scoring started in the top of the second inning with a solo home run to right field. That run proved to be the winning run of the contest.
 
UW-Whitewater didn't stop there, posting four runs in the third inning, and two runs in the sixth, eighth and ninth innings to put the game out of reach and force a second game.
 
Rose-Hulman was only able to get one runner on third base the entire ball game. With runners on first and third in the seventh inning for Rose-Hulman, Morgan got out of jam with his sixth strikeout the afternoon. Morgan stymied the Fighting Engineer bats all afternoon, allowing just two hits in the first six innings of play.
 
In the night cap, UW-Whitewater started in similar fashion as Fleischman hit a solo home run to deep right field to take an early lead in the top of the first inning.
 
Bryden followed suit in the third inning with a solo shot to deep left field to take a 2-0 lead after three innings of play. Senior catcher Dane Burman (Milton, Wis./Milton), who finished 1-for-4 at the plate, singled home another run for the Warhawks in the fourth inning.
 
Fleischman came back up to the dish in the fifth inning and mashed his second home run of the ball game, which plated two more runs. Fleischman finished 3-for-5 at the plate, to go along with two runs scored and three runs batted in. Joining Fleischman with three hits was Bryden, who finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored and a run batted in.
 
Chamberlain posted two hits, while Aldridge, Wary and Kuczynski all joined Burman with a hit apiece.
 
Sophomore right-hander Lake Bachar (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North) pitched a complete game for the Warhawks. Bachar scattered six hits over nine innings, while striking out nine to pick up his eighth victory of the season.
 
At the conclusion of play Fleischman, Morgan and Bachar were all named to the NCAA Central Region All-Tournament team. Aldridge was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament finishing 11-for-25 (.440 BA) at the plate with eight runs, two doubles, four home runs and 10 runs batted in.