MILWAUKEE - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team set season highs in runs and hits in claiming a 13-4 victory over Oakland University in game two of a doubleheader Saturday at Henry Aaron Field.
 
The Panthers (11-8, 3-5 Horizon League) and Golden Grizzlies (4-16, 2-6 Horizon League) were playing in Milwaukee instead of Rochester, Michigan, because Oakland's field was not yet playable for the 2015 campaign.
 
"I am very proud of the guys for coming out in game two after another tough loss in the opener," Panther head coach Scott Doffek said. "We are starting to have at bats with a good approach and that is encouraging. Game one we just did not execute down the stretch and it caught up with us at the end. We have put ourselves in tough situations late in games recently and you just can't do that and expect to have success at a high level." 
 
UWM pounded out 18 hits, led by a 4-for-4 outing by senior Tell Taylor and three hits, three RBI and three runs scored by senior Sam Koenig. Koenig also hit his fifth home run of the season and extended his hitting streak to 19 games in the process.
 
Taylor drove in three and scored a pair of runs. Junior Mitch Ghelfi (2-for-5, 2 runs) and senior Tyler Hermann (2-for-2) added multi-hit outings.
 
Senior Joe Pavlovich (2-0) picked up the victory after allowing just one earned run in his 5.0 innings. Freshman Austin Schulfer fanned four over the final 2.2 innings and senior Gunnar Eastman K'd all three batters he faced.
 
Milwaukee actually trailed 3-2 after two innings before the offensive explosion kicked in. The team scored two runs in the third to take the lead and extended it the next inning on Koenig's two-run shot to left field. A six-run sixth inning ended any drama.
 
The Panthers lost a nail-biter in the opener, falling 10-9 in 11 innings after scoring four runs in the ninth inning to force extras.
 
Taylor appeared to play the role of hero on a pair of occasions, driving in the tying runs in the ninth with two outs while also giving Milwaukee a 9-8 advantage in the top of the 11th on a sacrifice fly.
 
Trailing by a run, the Golden Grizzlies plated two in the last of the 11th to steal the win, ending the contest with a walkoff suicide squeeze.
 
Koenig went 3-for-5 with a triple, scored three runs and drove in two more. Taylor had the three RBI and Ghelfi was 3-for-5 and scored twice. Seniors Ryan McShane (3-for-4) and Mike Porcaro (2-for-4) added multi-hit outings.
 
Robby Enslen was 3-for-5 to lead the Grizzlies, scoring three runs while also adding a key two-run double in Oakland's six-run uprising in the bottom of the eighth inning.
 
Junior Brian Keller was the starter and was cruising through the first seven. He allowed a pair runs in the fourth but had walked none and struck out six until getting into trouble in the eighth with a 4-2 lead at the time. The Golden Grizzlies then had the big frame, plating six runs on six hits.
 
The two teams will wrap up the series Sunday at 1 p.m.