The UW-Whitewater baseball team split a doubleheader with the University of Chicago in Lake Myrtle, Florida Saturday, winning game one 8-5 and losing the second 6-0.

Chicago jumped out in front 2-0 in game one, but a Samuel Keller RBI single in the bottom of the first narrowed Chicago's lead to 2-1.  Jack Cinoman led off the UC third with a triple and came home one batter later to make it 3-1.  The Warhawks erased that lead, and built one of their own, with a four run bottom of the third, aided by three Maroon errors.  Matt Beyer (Janesville/Parker) knocked in two runs with a single and UW-W led 5-3 after three.

A JT Schneider (Oak Creek/Oak Creek) run producing single and another by Keller made it 7-3 Whitewater in the fourth.  Chicago plated two in the fifth to pull within 7-5, but UW-W ended the scoring with another Schneider single in the fifth. 

Schneider led the Warhawk offense with a 3x4 day, scoring three times with the two runs batted in.  Keller and Beyer also collected three hits each and both drove in two runs.  Tom Kerndt (Lansing, IA/Lansing) went all seven innings, yielding four earned runs on ten hits, with two walks and six strikeouts, to up his mark to 2-0.  Chicago's offense had four players with two hits apiece, with Cinoman also scoring twice.

Whitewater's loss in game two was the first time the Warhawks have been shut out since a 10-0 loss to UW-Superior April 19, 2009 --- a string of 130 games. 

Chicago scored five times in the second, without an extra base hit, for all the runs it would need.  Whitewater had runners at first and second in the second inning and in the third, but never got a teammate to third.

Beyer led UW-W batters, going 2x3 as UW-W was held to three hits by Alex Terry, who did not walk a batter and struck out four Warhawks.  Eric Schmitz (Fond du Lac/Fond du Lac) pitched 2.1 innings of one hit relief, with a pair of strikeouts, for UW-W.

The University of Chicago is 8-4.

UW-W, 5-4, will play the University of Southern Maine, a traditional Division III power, Tuesday in Florida.  The Warhawks' first home game of 2012 will be Thursday, April 5 with UW-Oshkosh visiting Miller Stadium at Prucha Field for a 1:00 doubleheader.

For additional information:  John Vodenlich, UW-W coach