La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse baseball team completed a four-game sweep of UW-Platteville with a pair of wins Sunday afternoon at Copeland Park.  The Eagles, ranked 15th on this week's D3baseball.com Top-25 Poll, won the opener, 6-1, and the nightcap, 10-1.  UWL improves to 14-5 overall and 4-0 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) while UW-Platteville drops to 10-9 overall and 0-4 in the conference.

UWL earned a pair of wins over UW-Platteville Saturday, April 9, winning 10-0 and 14-4.  Both games were eight innings.  The Eagles have now won 11 of the last 13 meetings with the Pioneers.

Jameson Lavery (4-0) pitched a complete-game in Sunday's 6-1 victory.  He went 9.0 innings, allowing one hit and one walk while striking out six.  Lavery faced two batters over the minimum in earning his first career complete-game.

UWL took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first in the opener as Joel Zyhowski tripled to start the inning and scored on Taylor Kohlwey's sacrifice fly.   The Eagles added a run in the bottom of the third as Zyhowski walked with one out and advanced to third on Alex Cordova's double to left center.  Kohlwey's RBI groundout to first scored Zyhowski for a 2-0 lead.

Lavery retired the first 10 batters of the game before Colin Deboer's home run to left field cut UWL's lead to 2-1.  The Eagles took a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth as Ben Morgan scored on Zyhowski's single.  Carter Hoffman's double knocked in Kohlwey in the bottom of the seventh to make it 4-1 before RBI singles from Cordova and Justin Anderson in the bottom of the eighth finished the scoring. 

UWL totaled 12 hits in Sunday's opener as eight starters recorded at least one hit.  Zyhowski went 3-for-4 with two runs, one double, one triple, one walk and one RBI.  He finished a home run short of hitting for the cycle.  Cordova and Seth Feldman both finished 2-for-4 while Kohlwey had two RBI.

Deboer recorded the only hit of the game for UW-Platteville with his solo home run in the fourth.  The only other batter to reach base on Lavery was Tanner Galeazzi's two-out walk in the top of the seventh.  Lucas Keller (4-2) took the loss for the Pioneers, going 6.1 innings, allowing nine hits, four runs and three walks while striking out three.

In the nightcap, three UWL pitchers combined on the win, allowing three hits.  Travis Stahulak (2-0) earned the win, going 7.0 innings, allowing three hits, one run and two walks with three strikeouts.  Jake Stern and Logan Mallek each pitched 1.0 inning with Stern allowing one walk.

The Eagles took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second with Carter Hoffman scoring on Alex Brown's double and Morgan coming in on Travis Buxton-Verstegen's groundout. 

UW-Platteville cut the lead to 2-1 in the top of the fourth on Evan Greco's home run, but UWL batted around in the bottom of the fifth to score five times and take a 7-1 lead.  Anderson's two-run single scored Cordova and Kohlwey, who had both singled to start the inning and advanced to second and third on a wild pitch.  Nate Heili's three-run double to left center field knocked in Anderson, Hoffman and Buxton-Verstegen for a 7-1 lead.

Cordova's solo home run in the bottom of the sixth gave UWL a 8-1 advantage and RBI doubles from Cordova and Kohlwey finished the scoring in the seventh.

UWL totaled 15 hits in the nightcap with five players finishing with at least two hits.  Cordova and Kohlwey each went 3-for-5 while Anderson, Brown and Heili each had two hits.  Cordova scored three times while Heili had three RBI.

UW-Platteville was held to three hits with Galeazzi finishing 2-for-3.  Austin Daniels (2-2) suffered the loss for the Pioneers, pitching 4.2 innings, allowing eight hits, seven runs and five walks with two strikeouts.

UWL hit .428 (65-of-152) in the four-game series with UW-Platteville, scoring 40 runs and recording 23 extra-base hits (20 doubles, one triple, two home runs).  The Eagles were also 11-of-11 in stolen base attempts.  Kohlwey hit .733 (11-of-15) in the four games while Cordova hit .625 (10-of-16) and Heili .529 (nine-of-17).

The Eagles' pitching staff held the Pioneers to six runs in 34.0 innings (1.59 earned run average) with six walks and 26 strikeouts.  UWL held UW-Platteville to a .128 batting average (15-of-117).

UWL returns to action Saturday, April 16 hosting UW-Oshkosh in a doubleheader starting at noon at Copeland Park.