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Local colleges: Red Men put on hitting clinic in Division III opener
Journal Times staff
There apparently were no pre-game butterflies in the stomachs of the Carthage College baseball team Friday.
The Red Men had their hitting shoes on, playing like tournament veterans in the first round of the NCAA Division III College World Series for a 15-4 victory over Eastern Connecticut State at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, near Appleton.
Carthage, ranked eighth in the most recent American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball Division III poll, will play UW-Stevens Point in a second-round winners' bracket game at 4:30 p.m. today. The Pointers shut out Emory (Ga.) College 2-0 in their first-round game.
The Red Men, who finished with 18 hits, put the game all but out of reach with a six-run seventh inning. They batted around and Boe Baitinger and Steve Rucks each had a two-run single in the inning.
Rucks went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs to lead the hit parade. Tyler Yapp went 3-for-5 with two doubles, three runs scored and two RBIs and Sajdak went 3-for-6 with two RBIs. Hermes also had three RBIs. All but one starter had at least one hit.
"After playing so many close games this year, I never saw this one coming," Carthage coach Augie Schmidt IV said. "I never felt comfortable until there were two outs in the ninth and I wondered how it was going to get interesting."
n Jordan Zimmermann (10-0) was a one-man team for sixth-ranked Stevens Point (33-15), pitching a one-hit shutout and going 3-for-3 and accounting for both of the Pointers' runs in the victory over third-ranked Emory.
Zimmermann's masterpiece was first one-hitter at the Division III World Series since 1984 and marked the first time in seven years that Emory (39-9) had been shut out. He struck out 10, walked two and hit a batter.
n Six Carthage players were named to the American Baseball Coaches Association All-Central Region team, two of them on the first team.
Junior left fielder David Hermes (.408, 12 doubles, three triples, three home runs, 34 RBI) and senior pitcher Jeff Livek (8-2, 2.22 earned run average) were named to the first team. Senior third baseman Tyler Yapp (.380, 14 doubles, four home runs, 42 RBI), junior center fielder Boe Baitinger (.353, 12 doubles, four triples, 30 RBI, 23 stolen bases) and junior pitcher Chris Krepline (7-1, 2.40 ERA) were named to the second team and junior pitcher Jacob Husing (8-3, 2.68 ERA) was named to the third team. Livek was also named "D3baseball.com" third-team All-American.
n Seven Red Men earned All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin honors.
Five were named to the first team - Hermes, Yapp, sophomore catcher Mike Hughes (.336, 12 doubles, 26 RBI), Livek, Krepline - and two were on the second team (Baitinger, Husing).
Carthage coach Augie Schmidt IV shared the CCIW Coach of the Year award with Illinois Wesleyan University coach Dennis Martel.
Track and field
UW-PARKSIDE: Jill Winkler moved up over the final 400 meters to finish second in the 3,000-meter run Friday at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships at Charlotte, N.C.
Winkler, a senior from Neenah, was sixth with 400 meters to go, Rangers coach Mike DeWitt said, but she moved up fast and took over second place with 300 meters to and held on to finish in 9:51.80 and earn All-America honors for the first time. Mandi Zemba of Grand Valley State won the race in a meet-record 9:09.0.
"You can't go out any better," DeWitt said.
Sophomore Jessica Lamp had a great run in the 800 preliminaries, breaking the school record in the event with a time of 2:08.88. The old record was 2:09.06 set in 1986 by former Union Grove High School standout Sarah Hiett.
Lamp was third in her heat, but it was the third-fastest time in the prelims and earned her a spot in today's finals.
Also running today will be Naomi Fulton in the 1,500 final.
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