Mar. 16—The Wisconsin-Superior baseball team won the last six games of its Spring Break trip to Davenport and Winter Haven, Florida, last week to finish with a 7-1 record.
After a Sunday, March 8 doubleheader split with Beloit, UWS swept two, 7-2 and 12-9 vs. Husson on Monday, March 9. That was followed by a 12-1 rout of Fitchburg State on Wednesday, March 11, a 7-3 win over Loras on Thursday, March 12, a 7-1 victory over Greenville on Friday, March 13 and a 5-4 win over Simpson on Saturday, March 14.
In the Husson doubleheader, UWS scored five times in the fourth inning. Brian O’Dwyer had a two-run homer, while Noah Dagostino followed with an RBI double, part of a 3-for-3 performance. In the second game, UWS won with three runs in the top of the eighth on a bases-loaded hit by pitch and Paddy Kelly’s two-run single.
Against Fitchburg, Niles Monroe threw six scoreless innings and struck out 10, while Tanner Voight paced the offense by going 4-for-5 with four RBIs.
Josh Pritchard threw 6 1/3 scoreless innings for the Yellowjackets vs. Loras and scattered eight hits as UWS easily overcame being outhit 10-7.
In the Greenville game, Kaden Corlett and Gio Basile continued the strong pitching with four scoreless innings each, while Chase Oxborough was 3-for-4 and scored twice.
Finally, UWS came from 4-0 down to win the Simpson game with five unanswered runs, including RBI singles by Brian O’Dwyer in back-to-back innings, the latter one including two more runs scoring on a subsequent error.
UWS (9-3) is scheduled to return to the field on March 21 and 22 at Saint Mary’s in Winona.
Wisconsin-Superior had a strong showing in the Space Coast Spring Games at Melbourne, Florida, finishing the trip with a 7-3 record.
After splitting games on each of the first two days, UWS got on a roll, winning four in a row vs. Saint Mary’s (Ind.) 11-1 and Rivier 1-0 on Monday, March 9, then defeating Emerson 5-2 and Wheaton 6-3 on Wednesday, March 11.
UWS dropped a 9-3 decision to Baldwin Wallace on Thursday, March 12 before finishing as 4-3 winners over Wilmington later that day.
The Saint Mary’s game included a triple, a homer and a sacrifice fly from leadoff hitter Peyton Bennett, while against Rivier, Carly Stuckmayer’s walk-off single made a winner out of pitcher Bethany Lewis, who issued a three-hit shutout.
Wednesday, UWS broke a 2-2 tie on a bases-clearing throwing error against Emerson, while MyKenzie Leccia tripled in two runs and scored a third in a go-ahead four-run sixth inning against Wheaton.
Stuckmayer delivered another walk-off hit to end the trip against Wilmington, with Bennett scoring the winning run to cap a 3-for-3 game.
UWS (10-6) is scheduled to return to the field at Wisconsin-Eau Claire on March 24.
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