WESTFIELD, Ind. - Sophomore Adam Reuss pitched five scoreless innings in relief and senior Tyler Hermann drove in three runs to help the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team to a come-from-behind 6-5 victory over Youngstown State University in game one of a doubleheader Saturday at Grand Park.
 
"We put ourselves in harm's way with the strike zone early in game one, but did a great job of grinding and chipping away to come back," Milwaukee head coach Scott Doffek said. "Adam Reuss did a great job of holding them in check and the back end of our bullpen was also very good with Jaquish and Peterson."
 
The Panthers (9-4, 1-1 Horizon League) pulled off one of their biggest comebacks in recent history to win for the seventh time in a row. Down 5-0 after just two innings, Milwaukee methodically started the climb back to eventually claim the win. The Penguins (3-6, 1-1 Horizon League) recorded a 5-3 victory in the nightcap, helped along by five UWM errors.
 
"Game two we beat ourselves by giving them extra outs," Doffek said. "You just can't do that and expect to win. Keller battled, but unfortunately we couldn't string anything together on offense to get him off the hook."
 
The five-run deficit erased in the opener was actually the second-largest comeback in Doffek's tenure, topped only by a 7-6 victory over Cleveland State in April of 2008 where the team trailed 6-0 in the third before claiming a 7-6 victory.
 
The Penguins got to sophomore starter Justin Langley early. He did not help himself, walking the bases loaded after there were two outs in the second. Back-to-back hits made it 4-0 and chased Langley and YSU would add one more run before the end of the frame.
 
Slowly and steadily UWM made a dent, getting a run back in the third on a bases-loaded walk and adding two more in the fourth on senior Tell Taylor's double and a single by sophomore Eric Solberg. Hermann would then make it 5-4 on an RBI-double in the fifth inning.
 
UWM went ahead in the seventh. The team tied it on Hermann's groundout and went ahead on Taylor's single through the left side.
 
Senior Cody Peterson came on in the eighth for the four-out save. After a leadoff error in the ninth, Peterson got a strikeout and then junior Mitch Ghelfi came up with a huge play, throwing out the tying run attempting to steal second. A harmless grounder ended it.
 
Reuss (1-0) came on in the second and was terrific, working 5.0 innings and allowing just three hits. He walked a pair and struck out five. Senior Justin Jaquish worked an inning, fanning three batters.
 
Ghelfi finished 2-for-4 and scored twice. Hermann had two hits as did Taylor (2 RBI) and Solberg. Junior Luke Meeteer stole his 11^th and 12^th bases.
 
In the nightcap, Milwaukee took a 1-0 lead on an RBI-single by junior Nick Unes in the second inning. The score would stay that way until the fourth, when YSU's Matt Sullivan hit a three-run home run to make it 3-1.
 
The Penguins would tack on an unearned run in the fifth. Senior Sam Koenig got one back with an RBI-single in the seventh, but that was as close as UWM would get, snapping that seven-game winning streak.
 
Koenig (2-for-3, RBI, run scored) was the only Panther with more than one hit.
 
Keller (2-2) worked 7.0 innings, allowing three earned runs. He walked a pair and struck out eight. Jeremy Quinlan (2-1) picked up the win, giving up two runs in 6.o innings of work. Joe King worked a three-inning save, giving up just one hit.
 
The two teams wrap up the weekend series with a 12 p.m. CST first pitch Sunday.