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Baseball drops four during Alumni/Senior Weekend
Sports Reporter
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point baseball team failed to hold on to a lead in three of four games they played against the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks in two double-headers on Saturday, April 4 and Monday, April 6.
The second double-header was originally scheduled for Sunday, April 5 at University Field in Stevens Point, but was postponed until Monday, April 6.
The failure to hold a lead resulted in a four-game sweep for the Pointers by the Warhawks.
Right fielder Brad Archambeau opened up the second game on Monday in the bottom of the third inning with a three-run homer. The Warhawks went on to score seven unanswered runs, with two in the fourth and eighth innings and three in the ninth.
The two runs scored in the fourth inning came by way of two solo homeruns by Robert Coe, a former UW-Stevens Point student who went 3-4 in the game with two RBIs, and Kevin Zalnis.
Pointer catcher Steve Considine tried to rally UW-SP to victory with a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth with one out, but time ran out, leaving the game 5-7 in favor of the Warhawks.
However all hopes to the rally ended with a ground out to pitcher Aaron Dott by shortstop Eric Fritz.
The Pointers took the early lead in game one also; Archambeau went 4-9 with four RBIs and hit a double bringing home a run on Monday to give the Pointers a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
A contribution from third-baseman Kevin Thomas came in the third with a two-run homer giving the Pointers a 4-0 lead over the Warhawks.
Then, in the sixth, things seemed to fall apart from the Pointers, allowing the Warhawks to score two unearned runs and give up five hits in the inning.
Coe came through with a double down the left field line facing two outs with a full count, bringing home the tying run in the sixth. The Warhawks’ second-baseman Nick Rechlitz later singled to the middle, bringing home Coe for the leading run, making the score 4-6.
The Pointers scored a run on a walk in the next inning; however in the top of the ninth, Rechlitz hit a solo home run to left field expanding the Warhawk’s lead to 5-7, which proved to be the final score of the game.
The Pointers’ failed to maintain leads in both games of the double-header that resulted in the same score of 5-7 for both.
