OSHKOSH, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh baseball kept the second game of its twinbill loss to UW-Whitewater at Tiedemann Field on Wednesday afternoon (April 22), however the Warhawks held off the late rally to earn victories of 14-2 (eight innings) and 7-5.
 
The Warhawks, ranked fourth in NCAA Division III by both D3baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association, extended their streak of consecutive season series wins over the Titans to 17 with the win in Wednesday's first game. Oshkosh last won a series in 2009, going 3-1 in the regular season at home before falling to the Warhawks in Whitewater during the WIAC Tournament.
 
Whitewater (27-3, 19-0 WIAC) accumulated 24 hits to the Titans' 19 and held additional advantages in RBI (19-7), doubles (6-3) and home runs (2-0). Both teams hit one triple. Oshkosh (11-20, 7-13 WIAC) left 18 runners on base to the Warhawks' 17.
 
Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) went 3-for-4 with a triple, a run scored and a triple in the first game while Braydon Skenandore (De Pere/West De Pere) went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI in the second game. Between the pair of contests, Cullen Kirchberg (DeForest/DeForest) and Aaron Davis (Darien, Ill./Downers Grove South) both collected three hits. Davis had Oshkosh's only other extra-base hit in the second game.
 
Oshkosh left two runners on base in the first, third and eighth innings and left the bases loaded in the seventh frame while committing an error.
 
Cooper Kamlay (Franklin/Franklin) (0-1) started on the mound for Oshkosh in the doubleheader opener and pitched a season high 4.1 innings, however he allowed 10 of the 23 batters he faced to reach on eight hits, a walk and a hit by pitch for four runs.
 
The Warhawks scored their first run on a balk in the second inning and recorded an RBI single in the fourth inning before added two more RBI singles in the fifth to create a 4-0 deficit.
 
The Titans got on the board in the home half of the fifth inning after Housinger recorded the third triple of his career with two outs. Kirchberg then sent him across the plate with a single to center field before Whitewater got out of the inning.
 
After Whitewater tallied another run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh inning, Danny Connelly (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) drew a leadoff walk in the bottom half of the inning, Jack McKellips (Oshkosh/Lourdes Academy) was hit by a pitch and Housinger singled up the middle of the infield to score Connelly and move McKellips to second base. Warhawk reliever Benjy Tucker got back-to-back outs, however he plunked Skenandore and was pulled with the bases loaded in favor of Skyler Sievert, who ended the inning by forcing a groundout and later earned his first save of the year across 1.1 innings of work.
 
Hoyt Keller (Wautoma/Wautoma) relieved Kamlay in the fifth inning and tossed the next 2.2 frames, allowing an unearned run on a hit, two walks and two hit batters. Levi Fey (Verona/Verona Area) entered for Oshkosh in the eighth inning and got two outs before the Warhawks plated six runs to create a 10-2 lead. Joe Richardson (Lake Forest, Ill./Stevenson) came in and recorded the Titans' only strikeout of the game but gave up three more runs before getting out of the inning and stranding a runner on base.
 
Davis and McKellips both singled in the bottom of the eighth inning and both were left on as Whitewater secured the eight-inning victory.
 
Since Ben Lee did not go the minimum required innings to garner the win, Sam Steuber earned the victory on the mound for the Warhawks with 3.0 innings pitched, allowing one run on three hits against four strikeouts.
 
The Warhawks jumped on Oshkosh's starting pitcher, Ben Buehring (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West) (1-2) for two runs on an RBI double and an RBI single in the first inning and hit a three-run home run in the second before he was relieved by Ryan Richter (Waukesha/Waukesha West) for the top of the third.
 
Richter pitched a pair of three up-three down innings in the third and fourth frames ahead of giving up two runs on two hits in the fifth that gave the Warhawks a 7-0 edge.
 
Oshkosh, which had not put a runner on base in the first four innings, broke up Whitewater starter Franklin Kirchner's no-hit bid when Skenandore knocked a one-out single to left field in the bottom of the fourth inning. Kirchner got out of the inning without a run on his record after giving up another hit to Gavin Persson (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North).
 
Benje Hencke (De Pere/West De Pere) finished out the game on the mound for the Titans with four scoreless innings of work, scattering two hits, issuing a walk and hitting a batter while fanning four Warhawks, including the first two batters of the sixth and ninth innings.
 
The Titans teed off on Warhawk reliever Theo Zeidler in the sixth inning, scoring four runs on four hits and an error before he was replaced by Ethan Wick (Appleton/Appleton North)man. Wickman induced a pop up for the second out and got the third out on a fly to center field after Persson singled up the middle and moved Skenandore to third base.
 
After turning a non-conventional inning-ending double play of runner's interference at second base and a 3-6-1 groundout in the top of the seventh, Oshkosh scored its fifth run in the home half on a Trevor Morris (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) sacrifice fly that plated Connelly, who reached on an error.
 
Oshkosh threatened to score once more in the eighth inning as Skenandore hit a leadoff single and Cash Kaczmarek (Barrington, Ill./Lake Zurich) singled through the middle of the infield before Nick West induced a Connelly flyout to escape the jam.
 
The Titans remain at Tiedemann Field for their next series, hosting UW-Stout (9-22, 2-18 WIAC) for a pair of doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday (April 25-26).
 
Since the teams' first meeting in 1962, Oshkosh is 102-34 against the Blue Devils, including an 8-2 mark in the last 10 games.
 
Last season, the Titans took all four games over the Blue Devils in Menomonie.