The No. 16 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team completed its four-game Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference road swing Tuesday afternoon with a pair of wins at UW-Oshkosh.
The Warhawks (11-2 overall, 5-1 WIAC) took the first game of the doubleheader 6-5 in 11 innings, and finished the twin bill with a 9-5 triumph in Game 2.
The opener went into extra innings thanks to a late rally by the Titans (6-6, 4-2), who scored three times in the bottom of the eighth and once in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 5-5.
Pitcher
Connor Moroder (Pewaukee, Wis./Pewaukee) left the bases loaded in both the ninth and 10th innings to push the game to the 11th, when shortstop
Nick Santoro (Naperville, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) singled home right fielder
Jacob DeMeyer (Harshaw, Wis./Rhinelander), who doubled down the left field line with two outs.
Moroder (2-0) pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the frame to secure the win.
Santoro collected two hits, one run scored and two runs batted in, while third baseman
Sam Vomhof (DeForest, Wis./DeForest) finished 2-for-5 with two RBIs. First baseman
Donovan Brandl (Rudolph, Wis./Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln) and catcher
Ryan Norton (Fond du Lac, Wis./Fond du Lac) each registered two hits, and Norton added one walk, one run scored and one RBI.
Starting pitcher
Westin Muir (Highlands Ranch, Colo./St. Charles North (Ill.)) struck out nine batters and allowed only one run over six innings. Muir,
Ben Muscatello (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) and Moroder combined to strand 14 base runners.
In Game 2, UW-Whitewater tallied three runs in the top of the first on an inside-the-park home run by Santoro and never trailed in the contest.
Pitcher
Matt O'Sullivan (Sugar Grove, Ill./Kaneland) improved to 4-0, surrendering two runs over seven innings with seven strikeouts.
Kade Lancour (Nekoosa, Wis./Nekoosa) pitched the eighth, and Brandl pitched around a two-out hit for a scoreless ninth.
DeMeyer reached base four times and totaled two hits, two walks, two runs scored and two RBIs. Brandl and left fielder
Matt Korman (Waterford, Wis./Waterford Union) also plated runs for the Warhawks, who turned three double plays and didn't commit an error in the game.
UW-Whitewater hosts UW-Oshkosh this Friday at 1 p.m. for a WIAC doubleheader at Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium.