Around the Horn - St. Patrick's Day

Your source for daily wrap-up of D1, D2, D3 and JUCO baseball in Wisconsin.
Edgewood Stretches Winning Streak to Five with Victory over St. Norbert 
In our latest match-up of two Wisconsin teams, the Edgewood College Eagles slugged their way to a 16-7 victory over St. Norbert.

Ryan O'Dell led the Eagles with five hits in six at bats including a double, three runs and three RBI. Joe Gura went 3-4 with a pair of RBI and a run while Jake Zadra also had three hits and drove in three runs.

Miles Mayer picked up the win, pitching five innings, allowing three earned runs and striking out five. Marc Ostrowski earned the save pitching the final four innings.


The Green Knights provided some pretty solid offense of their own, including a five hit game from Jordan Powers and a 3-5 game for Jarred Yost that included a home run. However, SNC's pitching and defense let them down as they allowed Edgewood 18 hits and made four errors.

Edgewood improves to 5-1 on the season while St. Norbert drops to 3-5. The Eagles continue to look like a force to be reckoned with this season.

Platteville Falters Late Against Virginia Wesleyan
Host Virginia Wesleyan scored three times in the seventh and eighth to break open a 2-2 tie en route to an 8-2 win over the University of Wisconsin-Platteville baseball team on Thursday.

The Pioneers (1-5) took advantage of a Virginia Wesleyan pitching change in its half of the seventh to tie the game at two. An RBI single by Brad Milka plated Aaron Hopson for the first run of the game for UW-Platteville. Next, the Pioneers got its second running on a sacrifice fly by Bobby Patton to tie the game at two.

In the loss, Hopson and Trevor Kattre each had two hits for the Pioneer attack. Pitcher Bill Oppriecht went six innings, scattering seven hits and striking out three in the loss to fall to 1-2 on the season.

Lakeland Shuts Out Knox College to Stay Hot in Florida
The Lakeland College baseball team got its second consecutive shutout win  as they beat Knox College 8-0.

Andrew Mueller earned the win, going six scoreless innings, allowing three hits, three walks, and striking out one. Charlie Sparrow got his first collegiate save, with a strong three innings of work.

David Novak led the way at the plate with a perfect 4-4 performance. He added three RBI and two runs to the Muskies attack. Erik Kozey added three hits and Andy Chitwood had two to help the 12 hit performance.

The Muskies are now 4-1 on their trip and have managed many spectacular pitching performances.

Concordia Loses to Valley City State 9-6
The Falcons dropped their third consecutive game in Phoenix 9-6 to Valley City State University

The loss drops Concordia to 3-6 on the trip. They will play their final game this afternoon against Connecticut Wesleyan.

Marian Wins 5-4 in Extras Over Central College
The Sabres scored two runs in the ninth to tie the game at five and force extra innings, then scored the game winning run in the tenth on a single by Matt Bromley to win 5-4 over Central College.

Anthony Porcaro led the Sabre offense with three hits. Garrett Dorn had two hits and a pair of runs, with Tim Holtz adding the two RBI.

The Sabres are now 3-5 on the season and play against Valley City State today to close out the Phoenix trip.


Wisconsin Lutheran Earns a Doubleheader Split with Westminster College
Wisconsin Lutheran earned a 10-8 victory over Westminster College in the second game of a doubleheader after dropping the opener 7-4.

Justin Barkhurst and Josh Ferrell powered the way for the Warriors, each blasting a home run and combining for five hits and six RBI.

The split puts Wisconsin Lutheran  at 4-2 on the season with three games remaining in Florida.

Lawrence Gets Pounded by Washington College
Lawrence University surrendered 17 hits and lost 14-5 to Washington College.

Shortstop Gabe Henriques was a lone bright spot for Lawrence as he went 2-for-5 and scored two runs.

The Vikings fall to 0-4 on the season and in their spring trip. 

Ripon Gets Back On Track with Sweep of Greenville College
The Red Hawks earned their first and second wins of the season as they swept a doubleheader from Greenville College 13-2 and 7-3.

Eric Schumacher was the only Red Hawk with a two hit game. He also added two runs and two RBI.  Jason Wierschke picked up the victory working six innings and allowing only three hits and two runs in game one.

In game two, the one, two and three spots of the Ripon order, John Hendrickson, Kyle Bosquez and Nick Beaman, provided two hits and two RBI each to lead the way to the sweep. Tom Albrecht earned the win pitching five innings.

Ripon is now 2-7 on the season with one game remaining in Florida.

Madison College Earns Two Single Run Victories
The WolfPack won a 6-5 decision over Hill College in the early game before beating Williston State 2-1 to move to 5-3 on the season.


Despite only managing nine hits combined in the two games, the WolfPack picked up victories behind strong pitching.

Parker Schrage was the star of the day earning a victory with six innings of work. He allowed just three hits and one run while striking out five batters.Eric DuCharme

La Crosse Splits Double Dip with Augsburg College
The Eagles earned a 7-3 victory over Augsburg in game one of the doubleheader before falling 5-4 in game two.

The split puts La Crosse at 5-3 on the season and ends their trip in Phoenix.


Stout Splits with Simpson College 
After falling to Simpson College 3-0 in the first game, Stout bounced back to win the second, 4-2 in Phoenix.

Despite a solid start from pitcher Tyler Gray, Stout was shut out by Simpson's Mike Huyser in the first game.  Gray completed six innings of work without letting up an earned run, while striking out two Storm batters.

 Zach Kiminsky finished five full innings, striking out six without allowing an earned run.  Chris Lammert  came in to pick up the save. Jesse Brockman singled three times in four at bats, while Jeff Huth  finished 2-3 with a single and a triple.