STEVENS POINT, Wis. – Lucas Luedtke (River Falls, Wis./River Falls) belted a home run in the first inning as part of an eight-run frame as the UW-Stevens Point baseball team (12-3) rolled to a 16-0 non-conference win over Finlandia (0-15) to sweep the five-game weekend set.
 
Luedtke hit two home runs and went 4-for-4 with six RBI in the win.  He scored three runs.
 
Aaron Simmons (Franklin, Wis./Franklin) extended his hitting streak to 13 games with an RBI single in his second at-bat of the first inning.  He scored two runs and drew two walks.
 
Matt Baumann (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower) and Tommy Duddleston (Chicago, Ill./De La Salle Institute) has two hits each in the game.  Baumann drove in two and scored a run. Duddleston scored once and drove in another.
 
The Pointers sent 12 hitters to the plate in the bottom of the first en route to an 8-0 lead after one.  Simmons and Payton Nelson (Wausau, Wis./West) drew one-out walks.  With two away, Luedtke launched his first home run to put UWSP in front 3-0.  The next six UWSP batters reached with Jacob Lillge (Little Chute, Wis./Little Chute) hitting a two-run single, Duddleston driving in one with a single and Simmons plating the eighth.
 
Bradley Comer (Rhinelander, Wis./Rhinelander) was hit by a pitch to start the second.  Luedtke singled and Brenden Canterbury (Waupaca, Wis./Waupaca) waked to load the bases.  Baumann lifted a sac fly to left for a 9-0 lead.
 
In the third, Simmons drew a base on balls and Nelson was hit with a pitch.  Two batters later, Luedtke crushed his second three-run home run of the game to make it 12-0.
 
Nelson singled to start the fifth.  Two batters later, Luedtke doubled to put two in scoring position. Pinch hitter Bradley Hansen (Racine, Wis./Union Grove) ripped a first-pitch double to right to plate both runners.  Baumann followed with a single and another run scored on the play following an error.  Zach Hanson (Gladstone, Mich./Gladstone) was hit by a pitch later in the inning and an errant pickoff throw to first allowed another run to score.
 
Jacob Meinholz (Middleton, Wis./Middleton) picked up his first collegiate win with 5.0 frames. He struck out six and allowed just an infield hit.  Jacob Thome (Wausau, Wis./East) struck out one in a perfect relief inning.  Seth Seefeldt (Coleman, Wis./Coleman) tossed a scoreless seventh inning.
 
The Pointers return to league play on Wednesday (April 14) with a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader against UW-La Crosse at Zimmermann Field.