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Silver Cross Field
4
Winner Milwaukee UWM 30-16
3
Chicago State CSU 11-36-1
Winner
Milwaukee UWM
30-16
4
Final
3
Chicago State CSU
11-36-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Milwaukee UWM 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 9 0
Chicago State CSU 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 1

W: Reuss, Adam (2-1) L: Thomas, Zach (1-9) S: Peterson, Cody (10)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Ninth-Inning Run Sends Panthers Past Cougars

Peterson notches 10th save of the season

JOLIET, Ill. - Senior Sam Koenig's sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning plated the go-ahead run and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team came from behind late in the contest to earn a 4-3 victory over Chicago State University Wednesday night at Silver Cross Field.
 
The Panthers (30-16) trailed the Cougars (11-36-1) by a score of 2-0 before briefly taking the lead in the seventh inning. CSU evened it again in its half of the eighth to set the stage for the ninth-inning heroics. The game was played at Silver Cross Field, home of the Joliet Slammers of the Frontier League.
 
"We wouldn't have it any other way – it seems like every game is one run or very close to that," UWM head coach Scott Doffek said. "I thought it was a well-played game on both sides. They played well and both teams pitched the ball really well. Early on I thought we barreled some balls and didn't get rewarded. But we stuck with it and before you know it, we found a way to win at the end."
 
Koenig finished with two runs batted in on the night. Junior Luke Meeteer added two hits and scored twice and senior Derek Peake was 2-for-3 with a pair of walks.
 
Jordan Stroschein led Chicago State with two hits and two RBI.
 
Meeteer reached on an infield single to lead off the ninth and went to third on Peake's double down the right field line. CSU pitched to Koenig with first base open and he responded by lining a 3-2 pitch to right, scoring Meeteer easily.
 
Senior Cody Peterson recorded the final three outs for his 10th save, the first UWM pitcher with at least 10 in a season since 2002. He worked around a pair of hits, stranding runners on second and third with one out to get the Panthers to 30 victories on the season.
 
That made a winner out of sophomore Adam Reuss (2-1), who came on in the bottom of the eighth with the go-ahead run at second base, stranding him with a strikeout to end up earning the three-pitch victory.
 
Freshman Alex McIntosh made an emergency start and threw well, allowing just four hits and two runs over the first five innings. He walked one and fanned a pair.
 
"We had runners on in the first three innings and just couldn't get that big two-out hit," Doffek said. "But it starts with Alex, who got a spot start, wasn't expecting to go and threw well. And the bullpen did a good job tonight too."
 
Milwaukee rallied and went ahead in the seventh inning, scoring three runs on five hits. Sophomore Eric Solberg started it with an RBI-single up the middle. Meeteer singled to put two runners on for Koenig, who sent the first pitch he saw into right center to tie the game.
 
Junior Mitch Ghelfi then put UWM ahead, ripping a two-strike, two-out single to center, with Meeteer motoring in from second and scoring without a play.
 
Peake also made a phenomenal all-out diving catch to snare a would-be triple to end the seventh.
 
Chicago State broke up the scoreless affair in the bottom of the fourth inning, getting a clutch two-out double to the center field wall off the bat of Stroschein that plated two runs. The Panthers tried to respond in the top of the fifth, but left a pair of runners stranded following a Cougar pitching change with two outs.
 
Up next, the Panthers return to Milwaukee to open a seven-game homestand to close out the regular season, starting with a match-up against Wright State Friday. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. against the Raiders at Henry Aaron Field.
 
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