Baseball starts Florida trip 2-1
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville baseball team is currently competing in the George Cusic Classic in Ft. Myers, Florida, where they’ve played three games so far over the course of the weekend, defeating Lasell College (Massachusetts) 13-5 on Friday, falling to Augustana College (Illinois) 7-5 on Saturday and closing the weekend with a win over St. Lawrence University (New York) 6-5 on Sunday.
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wis.-Platteville | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
St. Lawrence | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wis.-Platteville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
Augustana (Ill.) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 11 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lasell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
Wis.-Platteville | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | X | 13 | 14 | 3 |
Team Stats
St. Lawrence
Augustana (Ill.)
Lasell
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. —The University of Wisconsin-Platteville baseball team is currently competing in the George Cusic Classic in Ft. Myers, Florida, where they've played three games so far over the course of the weekend, defeating Lasell College (Massachusetts) 13-5 on Friday, falling to Augustana College (Illinois) 7-5 on Saturday and closing the weekend with a win over St. Lawrence University (New York) 6-5 on Sunday.
After starting the season 3-1, the Pioneers' batting hit a hot streak that pulled them to victory over Lasell on Friday, reaching 14 hits to Lasell's eight.
Adding two and one more run in the fourth and fifth innings, the Pioneers held Lasell to zero runs up until the top of the seventh, where they logged one run. The Pioneers quickly responded in the bottom of the inning, adding two more runs to the table to put the score at 9-1.
Lasell tallying three more runs in the top of the eighth, the Pioneers continued to push on, adding four more of their own to give them the 13-4 lead heading into the final inning, where Lasell's last chance effort only added one run to the score, the Pioneers taking the 13-5 victory.
Pioneers 5, Augustana 7
After a scoreless first inning, Augustana recorded the first run of the game in the second, taking the 1-0 lead heading into a scoreless third inning.
Augustana responded with a big bottom of the fourth, logging four runs to take the 5-1 lead heading into the top of the fifth.
On a DeBoer single to right field, two Pioneers in Wienkes and senior Casey Schroeder scored to bring the Pioneers within two at 5-3 in the fifth inning before Augustana added another run to their score, making the total 6-3.
After a scoreless sixth inning, both teams logged one run apiece in the seventh, putting the score at 7-4 with the Pioneers up to bat in the top of the eighth.
With Jester on base, senior Zack Iverson reached first on an error by the Augustana shortstop to bring Jester in to score in the eighth, keeping a win within reach with the score now at 7-5.
Holding Augustana to a scoreless bottom of the eighth, the Pioneers had a last-chance effort in the ninth with a Schroeder single to right field. Deboer stepped up to the plate next, but ended up grounding out with Schroeder in an Augustana double play.
Pioneers 6, St. Lawrence 5
With no runs scored in the first, St. Lawrence grabbed the 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second, but the Pioneers responded in the third after Schroeder was batted in by a DeBoer double to right center field to close the gap to 2-1.
St. Lawrence added two more runs to their total in the bottom of the sixth, but that would be the final runs scored throughout the rest of the game, the Pioneers taking the 6-5 victory.
The Pioneers continue action in Ft. Myers, Florida on Tuesday, March 22 against Purchase College (New York) at 8 a.m.
Written by: Carly Willman, University Information and Communications, 608.342.1194, willmanc@uwplatt.edu