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#35 Nick Paget hit a ball down the first base line in a double header against Lacrosse on Sunday April 23rd at Prucha Field at Jim Miller Stadium.

Baseball splits season opening series

Mason Thompson, Men’s Sports Journalist March 3, 2024

The No. 22 UW-Whitewater baseball team opened the season with a split against the No. 19 Trinity (Texas) Tigers, with both squads winning two games. Trinity came into the game with an unbeaten record but...

American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Inductee John Vodenlich walks back to the Warhawk dugout after his 701st win.

Standing in the Hall of Fame

Dan Emary, Assistant Men’s Sports Editor January 21, 2024

To say baseball head coach John Vodenlich’s coaching career has been successful is an understatement of his twenty-two years of coaching between Edgewood College and UW-Whitewater. In his career he has...

Sophomore first base Nick Paget (35) gets ready to hit the ball in Prucha Field Saturday afternoon, April 3, 2022.

Baseball reloads arms to prepare for season

Parker Olsen, Men’s Sports Editor March 13, 2023

UW-Whitewater baseball is well known around the country as being one of the most consistent threats to win the national title. They enter this season ranked as seventh in the nation and favored to win...

Baseball squad wins 13th in a row

Baseball squad wins 13th in a row

Tyler Job, Sports Editor April 29, 2019

The No. 18 Warhawk baseball team seems unstoppable right now. UW-Whitewater won its 13th consecutive game by toppling St. Norbert College by an 11-1 score at Prucha Field and James Miller Stadium April...

O’Sullivan makes history

Tyler Job, Sports Editor April 29, 2019

Warhawk baseball’s Matt O’Sullivan can officially say he is a part of special company. The sophomore pitcher earned his way to a no-hitter in game two against UW-Platteville at the University of Dubuque...

Warhawks dominate Finlandia in four-game sweep

Warhawks dominate Finlandia in four-game sweep

Tyler Job, Sports Editor April 22, 2019

A 51-3 tally would be a great football or basketball score. Or it would be a great record for any team. For the No. 20 Warhawk baseball squad, it was the combined score of a four-game sweep it produced...

Baseball squad takes down top conference foe

Baseball squad takes down top conference foe

Ethan Maurice, Staff Reporter April 8, 2019

The Warhawk baseball team came out victorious in both games of a home doubleheader against top WIAC foe UW-Oshkosh April 6. The first game was a nail-biter that saw Whitewater win on an eighth-inning...

Baseball hits for strong opening homestand

Baseball hits for strong opening homestand

Erika Marion, Assistant Sports Editor April 3, 2019

The No. 22 Warhawk baseball team started their regular season play on a high note after shutting out the College of St. Scholastica [Minn.] in their home-opening doubleheader at Prucha Field at James B....

Warhawk pitcher Austin Jones won the Royal Purple staff voted Male Athlete of the Year. Photos by Sierra High

MLB Draftee comes back to school

John Miller, Staff Writer May 3, 2017

Austin Jones, UW-Whitewater baseball’s pitching ace, has had anything but an ordinary career. After a breakthrough senior year in high school, Jones decided to his take his talents on the diamond to...

Chamberlain saves the day for UW-W

John Paul Czerwinski, Assistant Sports Editor May 2, 2017

The No. 3 ranked Warhawks opened the week with a win, but the team couldn’t keep their undefeated WIAC season going. The ‘Hawks dropped two games against UW- Steven’s Point in back-to-back doubleheaders...

Junior outfielder Brett Krause begins running down the first base line after connecting on a hit as freshman outfielder Matt Wary rounds third base in an April 8 doubleheader vicotry vs. UW-La Crosse. The Warhawks have now won six straight. Photo by Hannah Jewell

Warhawks win sixth straight game

Josh Sinclair, Senior Staff Writer April 13, 2017

The No. 4 ranked UW-Whitewater baseball team rolled to six straight wins, bringing the team’s early season record to 16-2. On April 5, UW-W took on Ripon College in a non-conference double header....

Junior outfielder Brett Krause collects a hit during the Warhawks extra-innings loss to St.Scholastica on March 29. Krause went 1-4 with two runs in the loss. Photo by Kimberly Wethal

Baseball squad splits doubleheader

Tyler Job, Staff Writer April 6, 2017

The No. 4 UW-Whitewater baseball team split a doubleheader against St. Scholastica (Minnesota) March 29 in Whitewater. The Warhawks handily won the first game 10-5, but fell in extra innings in the second...

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