PENSACOLA, Fla. – The No. 15 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team snapped a three-game losing streak Friday night with a 9-1 victory over St. Thomas (Minn.) in a non-conference contest at Blue Wahoos Stadium.
 
The Warhawks (2-4 overall) broke through offensively with 11 hits and scored six runs in the bottom of the fifth to increase a one-run lead to seven.
 
Sophomore Westin Muir (St. Charles, Ill./North) earned his second win of the season, allowing only three hits and one run with nine strikeouts in six innings of work. Freshman Hayden Fox (Stockton, Ill./Stockton) tossed two scoreless innings in relief, and junior Riley Gruetzmacher (Oconto Falls, Wis./Oconto Falls) tossed a scoreless ninth.
 
Junior centerfielder Alex Doud (Waukesha, Wis./Mukwonago) reached base three times and finished with two hits and two runs batted in. Senior second baseman Nick Schrader (Cambridge, Wis./Jefferson) posted two hits and one run scored, and senior third baseman Cal Aldridge (Crystal Lake, Ill./Prairie Ridge) collected two hits, one walk, two runs scored and one RBI.
 
Sophomore right fielder Bryan Sturdevant (Burlington, Wis./Burlington) registered two hits, two runs scored and one RBI and was on base four times, and junior first baseman Ben Wilkins (Sussex, Wis./Lake Country Lutheran) finished with two hits, one run scored and one RBI.
 
The Tommies (4-2) plated the first run in the top of the second, but the Warhawks responded with two in the bottom half on a run-scoring single to center by Wilkins and a sacrifice fly by freshman left fielder Zach Campbell (Burlington, Wis./Burlington).
 
Muir didn't allow a run over the next three frames, including the fourth, when he left runners at the corners after inducing a popup with two outs.
 
UW-Whitewater broke the game open with one out in the bottom of the fifth. Doud smashed a run-scoring double to the left-center gap to make it 4-1. After a passed ball sent Doud to third, senior catcher Mike Aiello (Racine, Wis./Horlick) bunted him in to score to make it a four-run advantage.
 
Sturdevant drove home Aiello with a base hit, and freshman designated hitter Matt Korman (Waterford, Wis./Waterford Union) hit a dribbler down the third base line to plate another run.
 
Sophomore shortstop Nick Santoro (Naperville, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly to right.
 
Aldridge crushed his third homer of the season in the eighth on a massive drive just left of centerfield.
 
The Warhawks continue play in Florida Sunday against Kalamazoo (Mich.) at 10 a.m. Central Time at the Lake Myrtle Complex in Auburndale, Fla.
 
UW-Whitewater played three games inside Blue Wahoos Stadium thanks to Blue Wahoos owner Quint Studer, a 1973 UW-W graduate.