WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis.- UW-Oshkosh played 20 innings of baseball against UW-Stevens Point at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School on Sunday (April 5), completing the last three innings of Friday's (April 3) suspended game before playing two more games, finishing the season series with a 3-1 edge over the Pointers.
 
The Titans (8-11, 4-4 WIAC) finished off the first game with a 10-5 win and walked off the Pointers (7-11, 1-7 WIAC), 10-0, in eight innings following a 12-3 loss in the second contest.
 
Oshkosh owned a slight 20-19 advantage in hits by day's end, helped by the 13-hit nightcap, while Stevens Point tallied 12 hits in its game two win.
 
Sunday's first game picked up in the bottom of the sixth inning with no outs and Danny Connelly (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) on first base after being suspended on Friday due to poor weather conditions. The total time of the delay was 43 hours and 42 minutes.
 
The Titans held a 9-4 lead after scoring on a sacrifice fly in the first inning, two RBI singles and a 2-RBI triple in the second inning, an RBI triple, error and sacrifice bunt in the fourth inning and a wild pitch in the fifth inning on Friday.
 
Brett Gaynor (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) (1-0) pitched the first six innings of the split-day game and tied his career high of eight strikeouts – two in the first, third and fifth innings and one in the second and sixth frames. The Pointers scored four runs on four hits and two walks off Gaynor. He was given the win on Sunday for his work on the mound from nearly two days earlier.
 
Connelly was stranded on first base as the next three Titans went down in order in Oshkosh's half of the sixth inning.
 
Colton Kachinsky (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way West) was the first Oshkosh pitcher the Pointers saw Sunday, taking over for Gaynor in the seventh inning. Kachinsky left two runners on base when he got Connor Olson looking for the third out of the frame.
 
Following a Tino Ramirez home run – one of five hit on Sunday – Kachinsky fanned a Pointer for the second out of the eighth inning but gave up a walk to the following batter and was pulled in favor of Ryan Richter (Waukesha/Waukesha West), who struck out pinch hitter Landon Parlier to end the inning.
 
In the Titans' half of the eighth, Connelly knocked his second home run of the season as the leadoff hitter to create the final 10-5 score.
 
Richter walked the first batter he faced in the top of the ninth inning on four straight balls then got three consecutive outs, including another strikeout, to shut the door on the Pointers and earn his third save of the season.
 
Across the multi-day game, Braydon Skenandore (De Pere/West De Pere) led the Titans at the plate, going 3-for-4 with two runs, an RBI and a walk. Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) scored twice while hitting 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and Trevor Morris (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) sent in a pair of runs with his 2-RBI triple in the second inning, scoring once and swiping another bag.
 
Stevens Point picked up its first WIAC win of the season in Sunday's second game, defeating Oshkosh, 12-3.
 
The Pointers jumped on Titans starting pitcher Connor Walters (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) (2-1) early with a two-run home run in the second inning, an RBI triple, RBI single and two-run home run in the fourth and a pair of RBI singles in the sixth. In all, Walters pitched 5.1 innings and gave up eight runs on 10 hits and a walk while striking out four.
 
Joe Richardson (Lake Forest, Ill./Stevenson) relieved Walters with one out in the sixth inning and induced a pair of flyouts to escape the inning and strand a Pointer on base. He pitched a clean seventh frame, forcing another fly out and striking out the next two batters, however Stevens Point tallied another four runs in the top of the eighth inning.
 
Benje Hencke (De Pere/West De Pere) was the only Oshkosh pitcher to not give up a run in the game. He induced a groundout, walked two batters, and struck out a batter before getting another batter to ground out to Cullen Kirchberg (DeForest/DeForest) at third base.
 
Pointers starting pitcher Steven Wintheiser (1-2) held Oshkosh hitless  through the first four innings. However, Oshkosh reached on two hit by pitches and a pair of walks. Logan Schill (Pewaukee/Pewaukee) got plunked in the first inning, Jack McKellips (Oshkosh/Lourdes Academy) was hit in the third, and Schill and Jack McNamara (La Grange, Ill./Lyons) were both walked in the fourth. Schill advanced as far as third on an error in the fourth frame but was left on base.
 
Owen Housinger (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson) broke up the no-hit bid in the bottom of the fifth inning with a leadoff double and Brenden Max (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) scored Danny Connelly (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) in the sixth inning on a single to right field.
 
The Titans added two more runs in the seventh inning when Braydon Skenandore (De Pere/West De Pere) sent Morris home on an RBI single and McKellips crossed the plate on a Gavin Persson (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) sacrifice fly. Aaron Davis (Darien, Ill./Downers Grove South) walked the bases loaded in the following at-bat, but the Pointers got Max out to strand all three runners.
 
Oshkosh again left runners on all three bags in a scoreless eighth inning and totaled 13 total runners left on in the nine-run loss.
 
Baris Brua (Mundelein, Ill./Mundelein) (1-2) earned the start for Oshkosh in the series finale and took advantage by throwing an eight-inning shutout. He fanned seven Pointers while scattering five hits and hitting one batter. Stevens Point managed just one extra-base hit in the game and left five runners on. He never faced more than five batters in an inning and faced the minimum four times.
 
Skenandore, McNamara, Morris and Housinger all tallied two hits while Skenandore, Schill and McNamara scored two runs apiece and McNamara and Max notched two RBI.
 
After Brua faced the minimum in the top of the first inning with two strikeouts, Schill drew a two-out walk and stole second base before scoring when McNamara doubled to right center. McNamara then made the score 2-0 when Connelly sent him home on a single to left.
 
Stevens Point put a pair of runners on base in the second inning and nearly scored on a sacrifice squeeze, but Brua made the out at home to save a run and got out of the inning with his third strikeout.
 
The Titans tacked on their next runs in the fifth inning. McNamara scored Davis with a double, Skenandore scored in an error after reaching on a single and McNamara reached the plate on a Max sacrifice bunt.
 
After Oshkosh converted a double play to get out of the top of the sixth inning, Skenandore hit a solo home run to make the score 6-0. Following a Schill double, McNamara, Connelly and Max all walked to score him, however Morris struck out in the next at-bat to strand all three remaining runners.
 
The Titans again loaded the bases in the seventh inning and again left them all on base by the end of the inning.
 
Max hit a double down the line and Morris singled to left early in the eighth inning and scored alongside McKellips in three consecutive at-bats to reach the 10-run rule.
 
Stevens Point starter Easton Zempel (0-2), one of five pitchers the Pointers used, was assigned the loss. He went 3.0 innings and allowed two runs on four hits and walk while striking out two batters.
 
Oshkosh moves to 151-116-1 against Stevens Point since 1956.
 
The Titans will host UW-Whitewater, ranked eighth in NCAA Division III by D3baseball.com and 10th by the American Baseball Coaches Association, at Tiedemann Field on Wednesday (April 8) for a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Oshkosh holds a 145-129 all-time lead over the Warhawks, however Whitewater owns a 8-2 edge in the teams' last 10 matchups. Nine of those contests were played last season as Oshkosh and Whitewater played four times in regular-season competition, twice in the WIAC Tournament (presented by Culver's) and three times in the NCAA Division III Championship Super Regional held in Whitewater.