WHITEWATER, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh baseball played at Prucha Field in Whitewater for the second time in five days on Sunday (April 11), facing UW-Platteville as spring weather in Wisconsin continued to wreak havoc on the WIAC.
 
The doubleheader, originally scheduled for the Pioneers' Kendall Murray Field, was moved to Prucha Field because the field was not in playable condition. Sunday marked the second weekend in a row that Oshkosh had to play at a neutral site due to poor field conditions following a Friday, Sunday split doubleheader with UW-Stevens Point in Wisconsin Rapids on April 3 and 5.
 
Aaron Davis (Darien, Ill./Downers Grove South) led the Titans (8-14, 4-7 WIAC) in the completed first game by going 3-for-4 at the plate with a run scored.
 
Trevor Morris (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley), Braydon Skenandore (De Pere/West De Pere) and Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons) all went 2-for-5. Morris recorded two doubles and a home run while he and Logan Schill (Pewaukee/Pewaukee) both homered and had two RBI.
 
The Pioneers (15-7, 6-5 WIAC) hit five home runs in the game, led by Anthony Massa's three-home run, six-RBI day at the plate. Brayden Knoll followed with two home runs, a double and three RBI while Kaleb Elwood totaled two RBI and had a double.
 
Both teams left 11 runners on base.
 
Oshkosh starter Josh Jansen (DeForest/DeForest) dropped to 1-4 on the season after being assigned the loss in 4.2 innings of work. He allowed seven runs on 10 hits, a walk and two hit batters and struck out six.
 
Kael Johns (Waukesha/Catholic Memorial) threw the next 0.2 innings and was responsible for the remaining four runs and Parker Thompson (Wauwatosa/Wauwatosa East) tossed 2.2 scoreless innings at the end of the game, scattering two hits and three walks.
 
Jordan Stanton, Platteville's starter, went 5.0 innings to move to 4-2 this year, scattering seven hits, allowing a walk and hitting a batter with four strikeouts while giving up four runs.
 
Brayden Schimmel and Wyatt Fischer finished out the game with 3.0 and 1.0 innings of respective shutout baseball. Schimmel fanned five of the 13 Titans he faced.
 
The Pioneers claimed an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Massa hit his first two-run shot. Jansen later struck out two Pioneers to get out of the inning and strand a runner.
 
Oshkosh tied the game in the top of the second inning with a two-run home run by Morris that also scored Davis, who reached on a one-out single, and took the lead in the fifth. Skenandore got on base with a single and Schill homered both home with his team-leading fifth home run of the year.
 
Meanwhile, Jansen fanned another two batters in the second inning and induced a double play in the fourth, leaving two runners on base across the three innings.
 
The lead was short lived, however. Platteville scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and added four more runs in the sixth. Seven of the runs came on home runs and the other two were scored on a double.
 
The Titans left six runners on the basepath across the last four frames, including two in the both the eighth and ninth innings.
 
Brett Gaynor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) started the second game and pitched the 2.2 innings before it was suspended in the bottom of the third inning with two outs and the bases loaded. He has allowed one run on six hits and a walk while notching three strikeouts. Oddly enough, Gaynor was also the pitcher of record when Oshkosh's April 3 game against Stevens Point was suspended for what became a 43-hour, 42-minute delay.
 
Three Titans own hits for far in the contest and four have an RBI.
 
Oshkosh started the second game with a four-run first inning, tallying runs on a McNamara bases loaded walk, a Skenandore sacrifice fly, a Davis groundout a Brenden Max (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) triple.
 
Schill pushed the edge to 5-0 in the top of the second frame before Caleb Parker sent in a Pioneer run in the bottom half of the frame with an RBI single.
 
The Titans will finish the second game against the Pioneers at 11 a.m. and play the third and fourth games of the series at Prucha Field on Monday (April 12).