University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Athletics
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (WSAU) — 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 Division III College World Series. UWSP trailed in this game and now has 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.
UWSP was scheduled for a rematch with Salisbury, but anticipated rains postponed the remainder of Sunday’s action. The Pointers and Sea Gulls are now scheduled to meet at 10 AM Monday. UWSP would need to beat Salisbury twice to advance to the best-of-three Division III CWS Finals against the winner of bracket 2. Eastern Connecticut State and LaGrange are the last two teams left in that bracket, with ECS unbeaten.
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