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Daulton Varsho
Daulton Varsho
7
Winner Northern Illinois NIU 22-29
3
Milwaukee UWM 29-23
Winner
Northern Illinois NIU
22-29
7
Final
3
Milwaukee UWM
29-23
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Northern Illinois NIU 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 7 10 0
Milwaukee UWM 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 1

W: HOFFMANN, Matthew (1-1) L: Brenner, Zach (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Huskies Sneak By Panthers In Home Finale

Milwaukee set for big road trip starting Thursday

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee baseball team dug out of an early hole but couldn't hang on down the stretch in a 7-3 loss to Northern Illinois from Henry Aaron Field Tuesday afternoon.
 
The home loss is just the fourth all season for UWM (29-23), while NIU (22-29) continues its late hot streak with its 14th win in its last 21 games.
 
Daulton Varsho led the Panthers with four hits on the day, finishing a triple shy of the cycle.
 
Zach Brenner – who learned he would be making his first start of the season just hours before the game – pitched five solid innings for Milwaukee. The junior struggled a little early to find his command but settled in and limited the damage to four runs on four hits while striking out a pair.
 
NIU plated a pair in the first, but Brenner would limit the Huskies get out of the jam without any further runs with the bases loaded.
 
The Panthers answered back in the second. After a pair of hits by Nick Unes and Cole Heili and a walk by John Boidanis, Chris Kelly knocked in his seventh RBI of the season with a sacrifice fly to right field, plating Unes.
 
One inning later, Varsho socked his sixth homerun of the season, tying the game up at 2-2 after the blast over the right field wall. The Panthers then showed their plate discipline, drawing four-straight walks to take the lead after Unes walked home on a bases-loaded walk drawn by Kelly.
 
NIU would have an answer of its own though, as Stephen Letz homered to left in the fifth to grab a 4-3 lead. The Huskies would not relinquish that lead and tacked on insurances runs in the sixth and ninth in the close win.
 
UWM never gave up, loading up the bases again in the bottom half of the sixth, but couldn't quite come up with the finishing blow.

The Panthers wrap up the 2016 regular season with a three-game road trip at Oakland, starting Thursday and closing out Saturday before next week's league tournament.
 
 
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