Box Score McMINNVILLE, Ore. –Jimmy Coady (La Crosse, WI/Aquinas) hit the game-winning double in the top of the 12th inning as the fourth-seed UW-Stevens Point baseball team advanced to the final day of the McMinnville Regional with a 7-5, 12-inning win over second-seed Cal Lutheran on Friday night at Roy Helser Field at Jim Wright Stadium.
 
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After the first two batters got out in the top of the 12th for UW-Stevens Point (32-12), Riley Spetz (Sturgeon Bay, WI/Sevastopol) singled and came around to score on Coady's game-winning double to left center. Coady then scored insurance run on a single by Ben Gerber (Stoughton, WI/Stoughton).
 
Jake Petersen led off the bottom of the 12th for Cal Lutheran (36-10) with a double to right center off Luke Watson (Appleton, WI/Xavier) but the junior struck out the next three batters swinging to nail down the save, his second of the season.
 
With the win, the Pointers advance to the regional championship where they will need to defeat top-seed Linfield twice on Saturday to advance to the NCAA Division III World Series. The Wildcats defeated the Pointers 3-2 earlier on Friday and the team's will square off at noon Pacific with a second game to follow if UWSP wins.
 
UW-Stevens Point, which trailed 4-1 and 6-4 prior to extra innings, took its first lead of the game at 7-6 in the top of the 11th. With one out and runners on first and second, Casey Barnes (Mequon, WI/Homestead) continued his strong regional with a double to center that scored Gerber. UWSP had a chance to add at least one more but the Kingsmen escaped further damage.
 
Cal Lutheran extended the game to the 12th inning by matching the Pointers' run in the top of the frame. Gabe Gunter tied the score with a one-out double down the right-field line that scored Craig Jacobson.
 
Still in the 11th, the Kingsmen had the bases loaded with one out but Cam Seidl (Appleton, WI/Fox Valley Lutheran) kept UW-Stevens Point's season alive by getting a force out at home and a groundout to end the inning. Seidl ended up getting the win to move to 7-2 on the season by pitching 0.2 innings in his second relief appearance of the season.
 
The Pointers trailed 6-4 going to the eighth inning but scratched across a run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Bobby Gregorich (Plover, WI/SPASH) to get within one going to the ninth. In the ninth, Spetz started the inning with a walk, moved to second on a sacrifice by Coady and scored on a clutch RBI single by Kyle McHugh (Polonia, WI/Rosholt) off Aaron Roth, one of the closers in the country.
 
Earlier, Cal Lutheran led 4-1 after a three-run third inning. The Kingsmen had just two hits in the inning, a leadoff single by Austin Kay and an RBI single by Petersen but Cal Lutheran also scored twice as the result of an error.
 
UW-Stevens Point hit right back with a three-run top of the fourth, highlighted by a two-run double by Harry Steldt (West Bend, WI/West). The Pointers also benefitted from two walks to score three on just two hits.
 
The Pointers used six pitchers in the game. Zach Wendorf (Merrill, WI/Merrill) pitched the first 5.2 innings and was charged with six runs, four earned, and struck out four. Nick Prebelski (Green Bay, WI/Notre Dame) allowed just one baserunner in 2.1 innings before Feyereisen threw two perfect innings. Stroik and Seidl combined to get out of the 11th and Watson closed the door.
 
Three pitchers pitched at least three innings for Cal Lutheran and all four Kingsmen pitchers were charged with at least two runs. Tyler Hebda, who started in the first meeting of the teams on Thursday, was charged with the loss.
 
Barnes and Taylor Carlson (Madison, WI/LaFollette) each had three hits in the game, as the Pointers outhit the Kingsmen 15-10. Spetz scored three runs, while McHugh, Gregorich and Steldt each drove in two. McHugh's RBI double in the first was his 24th two-bagger of the season, tying the single-season program record.