UW-Whitewater is headed up highway 26 to Appleton for the NCAA III World Series, defeating the College of Saint Scholastica 6-3 Saturday in the
Whitewater Regional final at Prucha Field at Jim Miller Stadium in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Both teams started their ace, and the Saints' Matt Lewis and Whitewater's Riley Tincher held up their end of the bargain with three scoreless innings apiece. In the top of the fourth Brandon Peterson's one out double put the Saints on the board, 1-0. In the sixth Kyle Moody's double chased Tincher, with Justin Lambert taking over. After two Saints were retired Jake Casareto doubled in Moody to make it 3-0 Saint Scholastica. With one out in the sixth, Whitewater began a rally. Rob Coe walked, and Jeff Donovan, the Whitewater Regional MVP, doubled to make it 3-1. With two outs and Donovan still at second, Lewis, who went twelve masterful innings in the regional opener against Hamline, showed signs of tiring, walking the next three batters to bring in Whitewater's second run. David Barningham replaced Lewis, and got the last out of the sixth to preserve the Saints' 3-2 lead. Daniel Putnam led off the seventh for UW-W with a walk, and scored the tying run on Andrew Eichstaedt's single and resulting throw that went awry. Dan Ubl was summoned from the Scholastica pen. He got a ground ball out, and walked Donovan to put Warhawks at first and third. Brett Young hit a pitch of the left center field fence, his fourth homer of the year, to put Whitewater in front 6-3. Lambert allowed two singles in the eighth and went 1-2-3 in the ninth to send the Warhawks to the NCAA III World Series for the fourth time in eight years.
