CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The No. 12 UW-Stevens Point baseball team (40-9) fell in game two of the NCAA Division III College World Series by an 8-2 final to Salisbury.  Senior Aaron Simmons (Franklin, Wis./Franklin) set the WIAC all-time record with his 17th career triple in the first inning.
 
Matt Baumann (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower) topped the team with two hits and was on base three times, including one of UWSP's four walks. He scored a run as well.
 
Jakob Boos (Littleton, Colo./Heritage) also hit a triple for the Pointers, the second multi-triple game of the season for UWSP. His triple drove in the Pointers' second run.
 
JD Schultz (Stevens Point, Wis./SPASH) went 5.0 in the start with four strikeouts and just four hits allowed.
 
Baumann worked a leadoff walk to start the game. Simmons followed with a line shot down the right field line and scampered all the way to third with the league-record triple to plate Baumann for the lead.
 
In the third, Salisbury got its first hit off Schultz to start the frame. A sac bunt and a groundout moved the runner to third. The second hit of the inning plated the run and tied the game.
 
The Sea Gulls took the lead in the fifth. With one out, a hit batter and a walk put two on. After getting the second out, back-to-back RBI hits pushed three in to give Salisbury the lead, 4-1.
 
Payton Nelson (Wausau, Wis./West) drew a walk to begin the sixth. After a pair of flyouts to center, Boos drilled a triple to right-center to plate Nelson.
 
Salisbury used a sac fly in the bottom of the sixth to get the run back. Tyler Beyer (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis./Lincoln) entered and stranded the bases loaded to get out of the jam and limit the damage.
 
The Sea Gulls broke the game open in the eighth. A pair of one-out hits coupled with two walks and a hit batter led to three runs as the Pointers fell behind 8-2.
 
The Pointers face Catholic University, the eight-seed, in an elimination game at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday (June 4). It will be the first-ever meeting between UWSP and Catholic.