The No. 3 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team capped the 2021 regular season Sunday afternoon with a 7-6 victory in 13 innings at UW-Oshkosh in a non-conference game.
 
The Warhawks (34-5 overall), who clinched a share of the WIAC regular season championship on Saturday with two wins against UW-Eau Claire, will start the postseason Friday at 10 a.m. with a game against the highest remaining seed following Wednesday's play-in games.
 
Catcher Ryan Norton (Fond du Lac, Wis./Fond du Lac) posted the go-ahead hit with two outs in the top of the 13th inning Sunday, plating first baseman Donovan Brandl (Rudolph, Wis./Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln) with a single to right field.
 
Pitcher Ben Muscatello (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) earned his first win of the year by tossing the final three innings, pitching around a leadoff base hit in the bottom of the 13th to cap the contest.
 
UW-Whitewater took the early lead on a sacrifice fly by right fielder Jacob DeMeyer (Harshaw, Wis./Rhinelander) and a two-out, two-run double down the right field line by left fielder Matt Korman (Waterford, Wis./Waterford Union).
 
The Titans (20-18) got on the board with one run in the fourth before the Warhawks plated two more in the top of the sixth on two-out, RBI hits from Korman and Brandl.
 
UW-W tacked on one more in the seventh on a sacrifice fly from second baseman Sam Vomhof (DeForest, Wis./DeForest) before UW-Oshkosh rallied to tie the game with three in the seventh and two in the eighth.
 
Connor Moroder (Pewaukee, Wis./Pewaukee) started the game on the mound for the Warhawks, allowing one run and striking out six over five innings of work. Trey Bretl (Marinette, Wis./Marinette), Jim Jarecki (New Berlin, Wis./Marquette University HS) and Matt O'Sullivan (Sugar Grove, Ill./Kaneland) all pitched in relief before Muscatello entered the game to start the bottom of the 11th.
 
UW-Whitewater will host all games played Friday-Sunday in next week's WIAC Championship, which is presented by Culver's.