Box Score McMINNVILLE, Ore. – Cam Seidl (Appleton, WI/Fox Valley Lutheran) and JP Feyereisen (River Falls, WI/River Falls) combined to pitch the fourth-seeded UW-Stevens Point baseball team to a 3-2 win over third-seeded Trinity (Tex.) in the team's opener at the McMinnville Regional on Wednesday night at Roy Helser Field at Jim Wright Stadium.
 
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Seidl improved to 7-2 on the year by holding the Tigers (33-9) to two runs on five hits in six innings and struck out five. Feyereisen earned his first save of the season by throwing two-hit ball over three innings with two strikeouts. The pair did not walk a batter in the game.
 
The Pointers (30-11) broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the seventh and held on for the win. Bobby Gregorich (Plover, WI/SPASH) was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, advanced to second on a groundout and scored on a game-winning double by Cody Hanke (Marathon, WI/Marathon). The Pointers have now won five straight games in the regionals after going 4-0 at the Midwest Regional at Whitewater last season.

UW-Stevens Point advances to the winner's bracket of the double-eliminiation regional where it will face Cal Lutheran at 7 p.m. PDT on Thursday evening. The second-seeded Kingsmen edged fifth-seeded Illinois Wesleyan 2-1 in the second game of the day to win their 13th game in a row. The Pointers and Kingsmen have never met in baseball.
 
Trinity took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, as Christian Muscarello hit a two-out double, moved to third on an error and scored on a balk. Muscarello was 3-for-4 in the game.
 
After Trinity starter Zach Speer retired the first 13 batters he faced, UW-Stevens Point rallied to take a 2-1 lead in the top of the fifth. Taylor Carlson (Madison, WI/LaFollette) scored from third as Hanke reached on an error to tie the score at 1-1 with Hanke taking second on the throw. Casey Barnes (Mequon, WI/Homestead), who was the only Pointers player with multiple hits in the game, followed with the go-ahead single that plated Hanke.
 
Speer took just his second loss of the season by allowing three runs, one earned, on three hits in 6.1 innings. Nicholas Griffith held the Pointers scoreless over the final 2.2 innings.
 
The Tigers quickly responded to the Pointers' two-run fifth to tie the score at 2-2 but could not find a third run down the stretch. Chris Bianchi doubled to start the frame and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Austin Singer. Trinity had a runner on in the eighth but Jimmy Coady (La Crosse, WI/Aquinas) threw Christian Muscarello out at second after a long fly ball to end the inning. Drew Butler led off the bottom of the ninth with a single but was left at first base. 
 
Trinity outhit the Pointers 7-5 in the game and both teams committed a pair of errors.