MEQUON, Wis. - Cole Heili hit a home run in the seventh inning and Brian Keller pitched a complete-game shutout as the Milwaukee baseball team picked up a 2-0 victory over Wright State Saturday afternoon at Kapco Park.
 
"Just outstanding. He really commanded three pitches, both sides of the plate," Milwaukee head coach Scott Doffek said. "It was a tough day to hit, it really was, and it's not an easy day to pitch and both of those guys were good."
 
The Panthers (12-13, 5-1 Horizon League) and Raiders (19-10, 7-3 Horizon League) went back-and-forth in a pitcher's duel on a day played in tough conditions for baseball. The game-time temperature was 30 degrees and wind chills dipped into the low 20's.
 
Keller (4-3) was brilliant, allowing just three singles in his 118-pitch outing. All three hits came in the first two innings, as he set down 16 batters in a row from the second out of the second inning until he gave up a two-out walk in the seventh.
 
Keller struck out nine and walked two, recording the first shutout of his career and fifth complete game.
 
Heili provided the difference in the seventh inning. Luke Meeteer led off with a double and went to third on a sac bunt by Jeremy Wright. An infield groundout could not advance the runner, bringing Heili to the plate with two outs. Following a WSU visit to the mound, Heili sent the first pitch he saw off the bottom of the scoreboard in left field for the two-run bomb.
 
"We don't have many players on our team that are going to hit home runs on a day like this, but he is one of them," Doffek said. "That is an impressive feat to get it out of here today and I think it was out by quite a bit."
 
That gave Jesse Scholtens (4-1) his first loss of the season. Scholtens was dueling inning-for-inning with Keller, finishing the day with seven K's in 7.1 innings.
 
"We had two opportunities in that game and their guy just executed a couple of really good pitches and they played good defense and got out of it," Doffek said.
 
The Panthers had a huge chance in the bottom of the fourth, loading the bases with nobody out on hits by Billy Quirke and Daulton Varsho and a WSU error. Scholtens found a way to get out of it, getting a force out at home on a ground ball to first before inducing a 5-2-3 double play to escape with no damage.
 
The Raiders didn't take long to rally, loading the bases with one out in the second on a pair of hits and a walk. Keller calmly worked out of trouble, getting a called strike three for out number two and a fielder's choice to shortstop to end it. He was nearly untouchable the rest of the way.

Milwaukee finished the day with five hits. At 2-for-3, Varsho was the only player with more than one hit for either team on the day.
 
The series wraps up tomorrow, with a doubleheader at Kapco Park scheduled for a first pitch in game one of 12 p.m.