BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

cubs · April 26, 2026, 06:56:05 PM

With 4 WIAC Games to play (for most teams:)

1. Whitewater 23-0
2. La Crosse 18-6
3. Eau Claire 12-11
4. River Falls 11-13
5. UWO 11-13
6. Platteville 9-15
7. Stevens Point 9-15
8. Stout 2-22

The work that Platteville did yesterday was practically negated as they lose a pair to Eau Claire today, including the series finale in 10 innings despite taking the lead on a Molitor HR in the top half of the 10th inning.

The same goes for Stevens Point as they are swept by La Crosse today.

Point and Platteville likely need to sweep the other in their head-to-head series next weekend AND get some help from Eau Claire, who faces River Falls, in order to earn a WIAC Tournament berth.

badgerwarhawk · April 26, 2026, 10:57:38 PM

WARHAWKS clinch 3rd consecutive and 24th in school history conference championships by sweeping River Falls over the weekend. The wins extend the streak to 30 games shattering both school (24) and conference (25) win streak records.

Game One:
This was the most competitive game as the WARHAWKS Gradin Taschner and River Falls Shaun Gavin were locked in a pitcher's dual. Both went 8 innings and hits were scattered. The WARHAWKS got a pair of runs in the 3rd on Jackson Koenig's triple and Danny Hoppers sac fly and then added another run in the 4th on a Jackson Spring single. River Falls scored in the ninth but left the tying run on base. The 3-1 was the final.

Pitching: Taschner (3-0): 8IP,3H,0R,1BB,9K; Franklin Kirchner (S,3): 1IP,3H,1R,1K
Hitting: Jackson Spring 2H; RBI: Spring, Koenig, Hopper

Game Two:
Koenig threw a complete game holding the Falcons to just 2 hits while walking 5 and striking out 9. The WARHAWKS took the lead with 3 in the 3rd and then added 4 in the 5th to a take and hold a 7-0 to the end. Spring had a pair of hits and rbi. Hudson Turner had a pair of hits. Bowers crushed a pair of balls. The first came within 5 feet of clearing the rightfield scoreboard for a double and the second completely cleared the scoreboard good for 2 runs. Aaron Holland homered and both Evan Olson and Landen Seymour had rbi.

Game Three:
Sam Steuber (7-0) went 6 innings allowing 7H,3R/2ER,3K and Ethan Wickman picked up his first save finishing the final 3 innings in shutout fashion while striking out 2. River Falls scored first with a run in the first for their only lead of the weekend. But the WARHAWKS answered with a pair in the 4th and then scored 1-3 runs in each of the next four innings to build a 9-3 lead.

Hitting: Dominik McVay: 3H,2RBI; Thies: 2H,2RBI,HR; Hopper:2H,RBI; Holland, Olson, Seymour, Koenig: RBI.

Game Four (8 inn.):

The WARHAWKS scored 3 in the 3rd, 5 more in the 4th and single runs in the 5th and 8th to end the game by run rule 10-0. Ben Lee (4-0) went 6IP allowing 3H,0R,1BB and 3K. Benjy Tucker relieved him needing only 6 pitches to finish the 7th and Theo Zeidler finished the final inning with 1BB.

Hitting: Bowers 2H,3RBI,HR; Olson: 3H,2RBI; Thies: 2H; Holland, Seymour, Hopper: RBI.

badgerwarhawk · April 29, 2026, 06:44:49 PM

Leading 2-0 when the postponed game was resumed the WARHAWKS extended the lead to 5-0 before Eau Claire put 3 runs across in the third. Adding an extra run in the fourth the WARHAWKS went up 6-3 and that score stood to the final out. Gravin Taschner started surrendering 1 hit and struck out a pair in a single inning of work. Franklin Kirchner (4-0) picked up the win allowing 6H, 3R/ER with 5K over 5 innings. Benjy Tucker earned a 3 inning save finishing the game allowing just a 1H, 1BB and getting 2K. Evon Olson and Jackson Spring each had a pair of hits and Spring had 2RBI. Aaron Holland, Danny Hopper, Landen Seymour and Dominik McVay each had an RBI.

cubs · April 30, 2026, 04:46:40 PM

With 4 WIAC Games to play:

1. Whitewater 24-0 (Have already clinched regular season WIAC Championship and WIAC Tournament #1 seed)
2. La Crosse 18-6 (Have already clinched WIAC Tournament #2 seed)
3. Eau Claire 12-12
4. River Falls 11-13
5. UWO 11-13
6. Platteville 9-15 (Need to Sweep Stevens Point and get some help from Eau Claire and La Crosse to qualify for WIAC Tournament)
7. Stevens Point 9-15 (Need to Sweep Platteville and get some help from Eau Claire and La Crosse to qualify for WIAC Tournament)
8. Stout 2-22 (Eliminated from WIAC Tournament)

Will wait until after tomorrow's games to go through the scenarios for #3 and #4 seeds in WIAC Tournament.

badgerwarhawk · May 01, 2026, 08:28:28 PM

The WARHAWKS took both ends of today's double hitter with Stout by scores of 9-1 and 4-2. Sam Steuber (8-0) struck out 14 and allowed 5 hits, an unearned run and a walk over 7 innings for the win in game one. Skyler Sievert finished the final two innings without allowing a hit, walking and striking out one. Dominik McVay had 3 hits. Jackson Spring pulled off an inside the park grand slam home run among his 2 hits. Landen Seymour and Andy Thies also had a pair of hits with Seymour adding an RBI.

Jackson Koenig (6-0) picked up the win in game two. Koenig threw 7 scoreless innings allowing just 3 hits with a walk and 11 strikeouts. Ethan Wickman surrendered a hit and picked up a strikeout in 1 inning of relief and Nick West finished the game allowing a hit, 2R/ER and a walk. Spring continued his hot hitting getting a pair and an RBI. Keli Grennier also had an RBI.

The WARHAWKS had 10 stolen bases on the day.

cubs · May 02, 2026, 07:53:40 AM

With 2 WIAC Games to play:

1. Whitewater 26-0 (Already clinched regular season WIAC Championship and WIAC Tournament #1 seed)
2. La Crosse 19-7 (Already clinched WIAC Tournament #2 seed)
3. Eau Claire 13-13 (Clinches #3 seed with one win vs River Falls today.)
4. River Falls 12-14 (Needs to match whatever UWO does today and they are in the WIAC Tournament as they hold tiebreaker.)
5. UWO 12-14 (Needs to win one more game vs La Crosse than River Falls does vs Eau Claire to secure WIAC Tournament berth.)
6. Stevens Point 11-15 (Needs to Sweep Platteville, have La Crosse sweep UWO, and have Eau Claire sweep River Falls to qualify for WIAC Tournament, as they lose all tiebreakers.)
7. Platteville 9-17 (Eliminated from WIAC Tournament)
8. Stout 2-24 (Eliminated from WIAC Tournament)

Point still mathematically alive thanks to a six run 9th inning yesterday that included three HR's, with the big one being a pinch hit, ealkoff 3-run HR from Josh Gilroy.

cubs · May 02, 2026, 03:25:25 PM

UWO eliminated from WIAC Tournament contention as they lose to La Crosse while River Falls knocks off Eau Claire....

Stevens Point eliminated from WIAC Tournament contention as well, as they drop the opener today against Platteville.

Eau Claire and River Falls square off in the WIAC Regular Season finale with the winner earning the #3 seed, while the loser gets the #4 seed and opens the WIAC Tournament against Whitewater who has yet to drop a WIAC game this season.

badgerwarhawk · May 02, 2026, 07:57:50 PM

The WARHAWKS take both games against Stout today by scores of 9-1 and 16-0 (7 inn.) finishing the conference portion of the season a perfect 28-0 and running the winning streak to 35 games. It marks the first time in WIAC play that the champion has finished with an undefeated record since the league has played under the current format.

Ben Lee (5-0) scattered 4 hits, surrendering 1 r/er while walking 1 and striking out 4 in 7 innings for the win in game one. Benjy Tucker pitched 2 hitless innings, walking one and striking out 2 in relief. Andy Thies had a pair of doubles and drove in 4 runs. Aaron Holland, Jackson Spring, Dominik McVay and Danny Hopper all had 2 hits. McVay and Landon Seymour had 2 rbi and Evan Olson had a single rbi.

In game two the WARHAWKS scored 2 runs in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th innings. With 2 runs across and 2 outs in the sixth Stout changed pitchers. The move backfired as he loaded the bases and then surrendered a grand slam home run to Thies. It was Thies second home run (2 run) of the game. In addition to Thies's pair of homers Leyton Bowers also hit a 2 run home run. Olson, Jackson Koenig, McVay and Hopper all had 2 hits. In addition to Thies 6 rbi and Bowers 2 McVay and Hopper had a pair while Olson, Spring and Keli Grennier each had a single rbi. Franklin Kirchner (5-1) started and pitched 4 innings allowing just a single hit and struck out 6. Skyler Sievert, Theo Zeidler and Gravin Taschner each pitched an inning in relief allowing a combined two hits, a walk with 5 strikeouts.

cubs · May 02, 2026, 10:07:27 PM

Congrats to the Warhawks on their undefeated WIAC season. That's quite an accomplishment and demonstrates just how consistent they were this season.

With that said, I'm not sure there's another team in the WIAC that could threaten to win a Regional this season. The WIAC was definitely lacking in top end pitching this year. One could argue that ANY of the quartet of Taschner, Koenig, Stueber, and Lee would've been the "ace" on every other WIAC team this year except maybe La Crosse.

Lastly, I have a feeling if Whitewater and Trinity played a four game series again right now, the Warhawks wouldn't be losing three out of four games again.

badgerwarhawk · May 03, 2026, 09:00:24 PM

The WARHAWKS current consecutive wins streak of 35 has established a new D3 national record surpassing Marietta and Aurora who each had 33 game streaks.

Mitch Hall · May 03, 2026, 09:05:05 PM

Congrats indeed to the unbeaten Warhawks and to BW. Has anyone swept the slate before?

cubs · May 03, 2026, 09:57:31 PM

Quote from: Mitch Hall on May 03, 2026, 09:05:05 PMCongrats indeed to the unbeaten Warhawks and to BW. Has anyone swept the slate before?

UWO swept the WSUC slate numerous times in the past, but that was when less conference games were played and you didn't play every conference opponent four games each.

cubs · May 03, 2026, 10:02:00 PM

Quote from: badgerwarhawk on April 26, 2026, 10:57:38 PMThe wins extend the streak to 30 games shattering both school (24) and conference (25) win streak records.

Interesting to note, members of the same family now hold the top two WIAC win streak records while playing at different schools 25+ Years apart!

badgerwarhawk · May 04, 2026, 12:45:06 PM

Quote from: cubs on May 03, 2026, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: Mitch Hall on May 03, 2026, 09:05:05 PMCongrats indeed to the unbeaten Warhawks and to BW. Has anyone swept the slate before?
UWO swept the WSUC slate numerous times in the past, but that was when less conference games were played and you didn't play every conference opponent four games each.

My bad. My first post included the fact it was since the change in the scheduling format but I didn't like the way it read so I deleted it and when I rewrote it I forgot to include that. Didn't mean to neglect the Titans.

Thanks Mitch and Cubs.

badgerwarhawk · May 05, 2026, 05:49:29 PM

The WARHAWKS get a pair of runs in the first and pile on a bunch over the final 3 innings easily beating Ripon 11-1 (8 inn.). Ethan Wickman started surrendering1 1ER on a pair of hits and striking out 3 over 5IP for the win. Wickman threw 52 pitches. Teo Zeidler relieved 3IP holding Ripon hitless with 1BB and 1K. Leyton Bowers had 4H and 3RBI. Aaron Holland had 3H with one a solo HR for 1RBI. Evon Olson had 3 hits and 2RBI. Jackson Spring (2) and Dominik McVay (1) added RBIs. Andy Thies finished with 2H and 1RBI.