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Pointers Brandon Scheidler and Mike Thrun were named Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Athletes of the Week on April 14.
Scheidler is an outfielder from Chippewa Falls who has scored 18 runs this season. He has 18 RBI’s and a .420 on base percentage.
Senior pitcher Thrun has a 2-2 record on the mound with 23 strikes in 36 innings.
The team is currently 15-8 overall and 7-3 in conference after sweeping UW-Superior in four consecutive games and losing both games in a doubleheader to Oshkosh on April 16.
After postponing three games a week ago, the team hosted 11-1, 10-7, 12-2, and 8-5 victories against the Yellowjackets, who fell to 3-9 in the WIAC.
The Titans took hold of the Pointers in the sixth inning and held the lead though Scheidler added a run in the top of the eighth.
The game ended 2-3 for a loss for UW-SP. UW- Oshkosh built a 6-0 lead by the end of the second and would end the game as victors in the 14-10 game.
Up next for the Pointers is a two day series hosted at UW-SP on April 19 and 20. Both games are at noon and are played at University Field on the north side of campus.
Speer gains Rookie Award
Freshman goalie Thomas Speer was named on the USCHO.com All-West Region Rookie Team after a breakout first season for the Pointer men’s ice hockey team.
Speer, a native of Janesville, Wis. garnered a 12-6- 4 in the net this season. He also earned four shutouts while marking a 12-game unbeaten streak during the season.
Aside from the USCHO.com accolades, Speer was named first team on the All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and was named an All-Northern Collegiate Hockey Association honorable mention.
extended their lead to two off an RBI single to center in the fourth inning. Despite having base runners in the first three innings, the Pointers were unable to advance them to home until the bottom of the fourth inning when McIlquham had an RBI single allowing Kimberly Liegel to score and cut the lead in half.
The Pointers then took the lead in the fifth inning when Brooks slammed a two-run home run making the score 3- 2. Pitcher Kayla Kastenmeier then closed the deal by only allowing one base runner in the final two innings giving the Pointers the win. Kastenmeier received a complete game win recording nine strikeouts and one walk.
“Against Stout, we had a lot of quality at-bats and put the ball in play much more consistently than we did in our last few games,” said Coach Ann Munzenmaier. “Our defense was also very focused. We really improved our overall play from last week.”
These two wins give Munzenmaier her 100th career win. In four seasons, Munzenmaier is only the third Pointer coach to reach 100 wins and currently has the second highest winning percentage (.684) in Pointer history. She also has the highest winning percentage of any coach in the conference who has coached more than one season.
“It is great that the program has gotten 100 wins in less than four years, but that is also a constant and an expectation for this program,” said Munzenmaier. “UW-SP Softball has had 20 wins or more every year for the last 14 years, so it is really an expectation of all the current players, past players, and coaches…we just try to keep the history and tradition of Pointer Softball going every single day.”
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