After beating Ripon in two close games to reach last season's NCAA Division III World Series, UW-Stevens Point had the tables turned on Saturday as the Red Hawks pulled out 4-2 and 10-9 victories at University Field in Stevens Point.

Ripon's Jordan Baitinger pitched a complete game in the opener and took advantage of several UW-Stevens Point baserunning miscues.

The Red Hawks scored twice in the second inning as John Dunlavy hit a solo home run and Chad Olson ripped a run-scoring single. UW-Stevens Point tied the game in the fourth as Brad Archambeau (Watertown/Watertown) led off the inning with a triple and scored on a wild pitch before Brandon Scheidler (Chippewa Falls/McDonell) delivered a run-scoring double.

Ripon broke the tie in the seventh as Mac Schumann reached on a single and moved to second on a one-out balk where he scored on a single by Dunlavy. Ripon added another run in the ninth as Dunlavy hit a sacrifice fly.

The Pointers had three runners reach in the ninth, but had one thrown out attempting to take third base on a shallow single to leftfield. UW-Stevens Point, which had 10 hits, also had a runner picked off and one thrown out at the plate in the loss.

The second game lasted 12 innings as UW-Stevens Point jumped out to a 7-0 lead after four innings and then had to rally with two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. Ripon's Kyle McFarland, who had a two-out error to allow the tying run in the ninth, made up for it in the 12th with a game-winning solo home run.

UW-Stevens Point got two runs in the second and third innings and then posted three runs in the fourth for the 7-0 advantage. The Pointers had nine of their 13 hits in the first four innings and were then silenced by Ripon reliever Bryant Bednarek, who retired 11 straight batters at one point. Joel Hojnacki (Plover/SPASH) had three hits in the first four innings and finished four-for-seven for the game.

The Red Hawks chipped away at the lead and took it with a five-run eighth inning, tying the game on a sacrifice fly by McFarland and taking the lead on a two-out, two-run double by Schumann.

In the bottom of the ninth, Stewart Larsen (Sturgeon Bay/Sturgeon Bay) drove in a run on a groundout and then pinch runner Kyle Cummings (Prentice/Prentice) scored on an error to extend the game.

Pointers' pitcher Devin Bressers (Portage/Portage), who had thrown three career innings, kept the Red Hawks scoreless in the ninth, 10th and 11th before surrendering McFarland's drive to left field in the 12th. UW-Stevens Point fell to 16-11 with the losses, while Ripon has now won 10 straight games and is 13-8.