Yellowjackets report: UWS baseball loses conference title game
May 11—Wisconsin-Superior baseball's season came to an end on Saturday in Mankato in the championship of the UMAC tournament, as Bethany Lutheran proved too tough to tame for the second-straight day. The Vikings took the title game 10-4 on Saturday, breaking it open with six runs in the bottom of the sixth. After falling behind in the early going, UWS fought back to tie it in the third on RBI singles from Paddy Kelly and Tanner Voight, then took a brief lead on Brian O'Dwyer's solo homer in the fourth.
That lead only lasted a half-inning, and the tie unraveled after eight straight Vikings reached base with one out: five singles, two walks and a hit batsman, leading to a 9-3 Bethany lead. UWS scored once on a fielder's choice in the ninth inning but that was all. Dagostino, Voight and Carter Thielke finished with two hits apiece.
Kevin Rahe took the loss, allowing four runs on four hits in 5 1/3 innings. UWS finishes its season with a 27-14 record. The Yellowjackets reached the championship game with two wins, defeating Northwestern 11-8 on Thursday and Minnesota Morris 24-6 on Friday night, either side of a 9-5 loss to Bethany.
In the Northwestern game, six runs in the sixth turned the game around for UWS, including a Voight go-ahead grand slam, his second homer of the game. Voight finished 4-for-5 with seven RBIs. Kelly added three hits and Niles Monroe had a two-run homer.
In Friday's first game, Bethany scored seven of its nine runs from the sixth inning onward to send UWS to the elimination bracket. Voight and Wylee Lottman had two hits apiece. Later Friday, UWS scored all six times it came to bat, with five different players recording four or more RBIs: Trey Sybrant had six, Voight and O'Dwyer five and Dagostino and Lottman four.