Arms come through in Midwest Regional
| Cass Kreitlow faced just five batters over the minimum in his 12 innings for Hamline. |
All three games ended in a 3-2 score, and it took the last one 13 innings to get that far, as the first day of the Division III baseball Midwest Regional demonstrated that 2011 is the year of the pitcher.
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UW-Stevens Point walked off with a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the 10th inning after the Pointers rallied from a 2-0 deficit against Aurora. St. Thomas allowed just four hits but it was enough for UW-Whitewater to squeak out a 3-2 win, and Hamline finished off St. Scholastica in the 13th inning.
Cass Kreitlow outdueled his St. Scholastica counterpart, Matt Lewis, over 12 innings, allowing six hits and walking two while allowing just the two runs. Full story. Photo gallery.
UW-Stevens Point's Travis Tuschen entered the game in the 10th inning as a pinch runner and slid in under the tag of Aurora catcher Ryan Payne on a Steve Considine bunt as the region's top-seeded Pointers beat the Spartans 3-2. Full story
In the middle game of the three, the Warhawks managed only four hits off freshman pitchers Zach Franz and Mark Ulrich, but they scored one run on a single, the second on an infield single and the third on a sacrifice fly and made two key defensive plays in the late innings to hold off the Tommies. Full story. Photo gallery.
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