For the sixth time in nine years, UW-Stevens Point is the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball tournament champion, but the Pointers took a much easier route to this year's crown by going undefeated through the double-elimination event.

The Pointers finished off a perfect weekend at Witter Field in Wisconsin Rapids with a 9-2 win over UW-Oshkosh in Saturday's title game to earn the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III tournament. Pairings and the regional site will be announced early Monday morning.

UW-Stevens Point will take a 28-14 record and seven-game winning streak into the tournament. The Pointers went 3-0 in the WIAC tournament for just the second time since the tournament went to a double-elimination format in 2001. UW-Stevens Point also finished 3-0 in 2002. The Pointers won titles after losses in 2001, 2005 and 2006.

Mike Thrun (Franklin/Franklin) earned the victory in the title game for the second straight year, pitching eight strong innings while allowing five hits and two runs. He finished with five strikeouts, including all three batters in the eighth inning. Travis Kempf (Kewaskum/Kewaskum) recorded the final three outs of the game.

The Pointers outhit the Titans 17-5, but didn't score until Stewart Larsen (Sturgeon Bay/Sturgeon Bay) had a run-scoring single in the fourth. UW-Stevens Point put up four runs in the fifth as the Titans had three wild pitches and Adam Evanoff (Plover/SPASH), Brandon Scheidler (Chippewa Falls/McDonell) and Larsen all delivered run-scoring singles.

UW-Oshkosh's Bryan Schwebke answered with a solo homer in the sixth, but the Pointers came back with a run in the bottom of the inning on a run-scoring double by Tim Schlosser (Oconomowoc/Oconomowoc). Brad Archambeau (Watertown/Watertown) homered to lead off the eighth and Jordan Zimmermann (Auburndale/Auburndale) and Scheidler each added run-scoring singles to finish the scoring.

Archambeau, Schlosser and Scheidler each had three hits for the Pointers, who won three of five meetings over the Titans this year. UW-Oshkosh is now 32-10 and will await a possible at-large berth to the NCAA Division III tournament.