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Box Score 2 MILWAUKEE – Sophomore Brandon McCumber and freshman Michael Boehmer pitched the MSOE baseball team to a pair of victories over Wisconsin Lutheran Saturday afternoon at Neumann Family Field.
The Raiders (8-26, 5-13 NACC) received seven innings from McCumber (3-1) in game one, as he allowed no earned runs in a 4-2 victory. Boehmer (3-1) stifled the Warriors (17-15, 6-10 NACC) through eight innings for his first collegiate win, 3-1.
Freshman Ryan Newman closed out both games to pick up two saves on the day.
In the opener, McCumber struck out seven in the game, rebounding from a pair of unearned runs in the first inning to scatter five hits and a walk. Newman then struck out four over the final two frames to close out the win.
MSOE committed three of its five errors in the game in the opening frame, cancelling out a first-inning run of its own to trail 2-1. The Red & White quickly pulled that run back by manufacturing a run in the top of the second. A walk, sacrifice bunt and ground out put a runner on third for Newman, who singled to left field to tie the score.
The score remained tied until the seventh when junior Nick Jablonski drove in a run with an RBI double and scored on a squeeze bunt single by senior Jake Roberts to make it 4-2.
Miller finished with two hits in the first game, driving in the Raiders first run with a two-out single. Newman also collected a pair of hits in the game.
Boehmer struck out three and conceded just four hits in game two. He had a pair of 1-2-3 innings and five other innings with just a single base runner. A pair of errors led to an unearned run in the sixth and the Warriors manufactured an eighth-inning score to pull within 3-2.
Newman retired all three batters he faced in the ninth to close down the victory.
MSOE opened the scoring in the fourth inning, manufacturing a pair of runs. Sophomore Brad Schonder and McCumber led off the frame with back-to-back singles and moved up on a sacrifice bunt. Schonder came in to score on a wild pitch and freshman Trevor Symbal plated McCumber with a single.
After WLC pulled a run back in the sixth, Miller had another timely hit to score junior Tyler Doyle in the seventh. Doyle had reached on a fielder's choice and stole second. After a ground out, he sat at third ahead of Miller's base hit.
The Raiders have won three of their last four games, including back-to-back wins for the first time this season. They return to the field Sunday, hosting Concordia Chicago in a doubleheader at The Rock in Franklin.