IOWA CITY, Iowa - Junior Mitch Ghelfi drove in three runs and nine pitchers on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team combined to allow no earned runs in claiming a 4-3 victory over 15^th-ranked University of Iowa Wednesday afternoon at Duane Banks Field.
 
An impressive week continues for the Panthers (16-9) after today's result against the Hawkeyes (21-8). A day after their first-ever no-hitter, the team gets its first victory over a nationally-ranked opponent since topping No. 25 Michigan, 19-11, back in February of 2009.
 
"We did a good job," UWM head coach Scott Doffek said. "It was going to be one of those midweek games where you break up the game and you get seven or eight pitchers in it. Other than one inning, every pitcher just did a really good job. We gave up no earned runs again today, so that's 18 straight with no earned runs."
 
Junior Luke Meeteer led the way with three hits, scoring twice and driving in what turned out to be the game-winning RBI in the eighth inning. Ghelfi had two hits to record his three runs batted in.
 
"We ended up with only eight hits and four runs, but we swung the bats better today," Doffek said. "I thought we put together a lot of good at bats – it was a good game."
 
Senior Cody Peterson picked up his sixth save of the season with a 1-2-3 ninth inning, making a winner out of senior Justin Jaquish (3-2), who allowed one hit in 1.1 innings of work.
 
Senior Gunnar Eastman got himself into and out of trouble in the eighth, limiting the damage when the Hawkeyes plated their third unearned run of the day. A walk and wild pitch started the frame and an error allowed the run to get the final 90 feet home. Eastman righted the ship, getting a fly ball and a pair of huge strikeouts to strand the tying run in scoring position.
 
Iowa had made it a new game with a pair of unearned runs in the sixth inning, helped along by the miscue and a pair of walks to tie the contest at 2-2. Ghelfi legged out what would have been a double-play ball an inning later to plate an immediate answer and grab UWM a 3-2 advantage.

Meeteer then came up with a clutch two-out RBI in the eighth inning that turned into a key insurance run.
 
Through the first six innings of the day, both teams used a different pitcher each frame.
 
It was first and second with one out in the fifth for Iowa, but junior Jake Tuttle induced a lazy fly ball to left field and another to center.
 
Senior Joe Pavlovich got out of the first jam of the day, holding the Hawkeyes without a run in the fourth after back-to-back singles to open the frame. He got an assist on what would have been a single up the middle, with the ball deflecting right to first base for out No. 1. He then got a jam-job pop-out to first and a swinging strikeout to end it.
 
Sophomore Justin Langley got the start and worked a scoreless frame. Sophomore Adam Reuss (second inning) and senior Cal Haley (third) followed suit.
 
Milwaukee wasted little time in striking first. Meeteer doubled to lead off the game. Following a groundout, Iowa chose to intentionally walk senior Sam Koenig – the third batter of the game – and Ghelfi made them pay, lacing a double down the leftfield line on the first pitch he saw to plate Meeteer.
 
"It's huge to jump out in front like that and then to back it up with a couple of zeroes," Doffek said. "Luke was seeing the ball well all day and Ghelfi with the three big RBI was good. Just a good team win."
 
Koenig's hitting streak came to an end at 24 games, tied for the third-longest in school history. He went 0-for-2 with three walks, two of them intentional.
 
UWM has a big weekend ahead of it, welcoming first-place UIC to Henry Aaron Field for a three-game series. Game one against the Flames is set for 3 p.m. Friday.