BELOIT, Wis. – The Edgewood College baseball team struggled at the plate for a portion of the season, but certainly went out with an offensive explosion. The Eagles posted their biggest inning of the season, a nine-run fourth and then hung on through a Beloit rally for a 17-14 victory in the season finale for both teams.
Edgewood College (9-28) lead 1-0 after a Bryan Sternig RBI double in the first scored Alex Fowler, but Beloit College took a 6-1 lead capped by Joe McKay's two-run homer in the third. However, Edgewood College exploded for nine runs on nine hits in the fourth inning. The first four Eagles reached on singles when Ryan Fields smashed a triple to right center field to make the game 6-5. Two batters later Casey Willis hit his first career collegiate home run to give the Eagles the lead. After a pitching change, Sternig hit a three-run bomb for a 10-6 Eagles lead. For Sternig, it was his second career home run, which comes just two days after his first career home run.
Beloit College trimmed the lead to 10-9, but the Eagles scored five more in the sixth inning. Callen Gavic had an RBI single, Jeff Tucker a two-run singles and Willis added a two-run double. The Eagles lead ballooned to 17-9 in the eighth on an RBI double for Tucker and another RBI single for Gavic. Beloit made it interesting, scoring twice in the eighth and three times in the ninth, but Alex Meister finally closed the door on the game and the Eagles' season.
Sternig continued his torrid finish to the season with his sixth multi-hit game in his last seven games. Tonight he went 4-for-6 with a double, home run and four runs batted in. Willis ended the game 2-for-3 also with a double, a home run and four RBIs. Tucker went 3-for-4 in his final game as an Eagle with a double and four runs batted in. Gavic and Fowler had two hits apiece.
The Eagles used a bullpen-by-committee approach with nine players each pitching one inning. Senior Erick Wendt earned his first win since his freshman season after battling through an injury in his junior year which cost him all but one appearance in 2017.
