CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The No. 12 UW-Stevens Point baseball team (42-9) set a program record for wins in eliminating top-seed Marietta (44-7) with a 6-4 victory in Sunday's opening game of the College World Series. UWSP trailed in this game and now have come from behind to win 21 times this season.
Payton Nelson (Wausau, Wis./West) led the UWSP offense with three hits. He drove in two pivotal runs and scored twice.
Anthony Tomczak (Muskego, Wis./Muskego),
Quin Henwood (Appleton, Wis./North),
Jakob Boos (Littleton, Colo./Heritage) and
Logan Matson (Neillsville, Wis./Neillsville) all had two hits. Tomczak had two RBI. Boos and Matson each scored a run.
Bradley Comer (Rhinelander, Wis./Rhinelander) had two RBI.
Aaron Simmons (Franklin, Wis./Franklin) scored two runs to become the all-time single season record with 73 runs this year.
Simmons drew a one-out walk in the first inning. Nelson singled and Simmons moved to third on a flyout. Tomczak hit a two-out single to plate a run and give UWSP the lead.
UWSP starter
Caleb Krommenakker (Rudolph, Wis./Lincoln) held the one-run lead until the sixth. Marietta broke through for three runs on four hits to end Krommenakker's day, an outing that saw him scatter two hits over the first five innings.
Simmons started the bottom of the sixth with a walk. Nelson was hit by a pitch. Comer then drilled a double to left-center plating both runners to tie the game at 3-3.
In the bottom of the seventh, Boos led off with a single. Matson followed with a single and
Matt Baumann (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower) moved both into scoring position with a sac bunt. Simmons was intentionally walked to load the bases. Nelson laced a single up the middle to push home two runs. Tomczak drove in another with a single to make it 6-3.
Austin Syvertson (Randolph, Wis./Randolph) shut down the Pioneers the rest of the way. He struck out five, including the final out of the game. He wiggled out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the eighth to limit Marietta to just a single run.
The Pointers advance to face Salisbury in game 11 of the World Series at 10:00 a.m. on Monday (June 6) after Sunday's late games were postponed due to impending inclement weather in the Cedar Rapids area this afternoon and evening.
