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Box Score 2 LEESBURG, Fla. –
Luke Watson (Appleton, WI/Xavier) and
Max Frederick (New London, WI/New London) each tossed complete games as the fifth-ranked UW-Stevens Point baseball team swept Washington & Jefferson 6-1 and 8-0 on Friday afternoon at Pat Thomas Stadium.
UW-Stevens Point 6, Washington & Jefferson 1 | Box
Frederick logged his second complete game in as many starts by giving up eight hits and one run in seven frames of work against Washington & Jefferson (6-7). The senior struck out six batters in the game against just two walks.
Kyle McHugh (Polonia, WI/Rosholt) homered for the second game in a row and fourth time this season to stake the Pointers (10-1) to an early 2-0 lead in the first. UW-Stevens Point had just five hits but made the most of them, turning them into six runs.
After the Presidents got within 2-1 with a second-inning run, the Pointers pulled away in the fourth with three runs. UW-Stevens Point recorded a single hit in the inning but scratched across runs on an error, a hit batter and an RBI single by
Jimmy Coady (La Crosse, WI/Aquinas).
Riley Spetz (Sturgeon Bay, WI/Sevastopol) drove in the sixth UWSP run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth for his second RBI of the game. Spetz, Coady, McHugh,
Brandon Kranz (Waukesha, WI/West) and
Cody Hanke (Marathon, WI/Marathon) each had one hit.
UW-Stevens Point 8, Washington & Jefferson 0 | Box
Watson held the Presidents to just four hits and one walk in a complete game shutout and struck out five batters in the process. Coady and
Taylor Carlson (Madison, WI/LaFollette) each had two hits and two RBI to lead the Pointers offensively.
Hanke started the scoring for UW-Stevens Point with a solo home run in the second inning, his second of the season. The Pointers then added four more in the third inning on a two-run double by Coady and run-scoring singles by Kranz and Carlson.
UWSP tacked on three more in the seventh to cap a 13-hit game. McHugh, Kranz and Carlson each drove in runs in the seventh for the Pointers, who finished their trip 10-1.
UW-Stevens Point returns to Wisconsin to face Ripon in a road doubleheader on Sunday, March 30 at noon and 2 p.m.
