LEYTEN BOWERS, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, continues to be a potent offensive weapon for the UW- Whitewater baseball team.
Bowers, a 6-foot senior INF, batted .480 (12-for-25) in the latest six wins for the Warhawks.
Five of the six games resulted in multiple hits for Bowers, including four doubles and three home runs.
Each round tripper was a 2-run blast; one coming against UW-Oshkosh and the other two against UW-River Falls.
For the week, Bowers scored six runs and drove in seven as he raised his batting average to .362 and his slugging percentage to .647.
DOM MCVAY, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, added a pair of multiple-hit games to the Warhawks’s offensive assault last week.
McVay, a 5-9 junior OF, also hit over 400 for UW-W, specifically .438 (10- for-23), and currently has the fourth best average on the team at .315.
He opened the week with a 4-for-4 performance at the plate and two runs batted in (RBI) against UW-O.
One of those hits was a double, and he would collect four more two-base hits as the week progressed.
In total, McVay crossed home plate six times while picking up four RBI. The 9-3 win over UW-RF last Saturday clinched the 24th outright conference championship for the Warhawks.
UW-W (31-3, 23-0) plays a make-up game against UW-Eau Claire on Wednesday before hosting UW-Stout this weekend, then traveling to Ripon for the final game of the regular season next Tuesday.
LIAM STUMPF, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, picked up a win for the Central Michigan University (CMU) baseball team last week.
Stumpf, a 6-0 redshirt senior pitcher, closed out an 11-6 triumph over Oakland University (Mich) by throwing the final 4.0 innings.
He allowed one earned run to the Golden Grizzlies on three hits, two walks, and a wild pitch.
Stumpf threw 55 pitches to 17 batters as he improved his season mark to 2- 1.
He was called out of the bullpen again last Saturday in a 6-1 defeat to Miami (Ohio).
Stumpf tossed 26 pitches to nine Redhawks, allowing two earned runs on three hits to accompany one strikeout.
CMU (18-23, 9-15) hosts Grace Christian University (Mich) on Wednesday before the Northern Illinois Huskies come to Theunissen Stadium for a weekend series.
LEXIE WEIER, a former Mount Horeb athlete from Mineral Point, turned in a top performance for the UW- W women’s track team last weekend.
Weier, a senior horizontal jump specialist, was the highest finisher from a Division III school in the triple jump at the Drake Alternative Meet.
Her best effort on the day was 36-7 (11.18m) to earn her third place in the event behind athletes from UW-Parkside (DII) and UW-M (DI).
There were a total of 10 DIII athletes from four schools participating in the triple jump.
UW-W is at UW-La Crosse this weekend for the conference championship.
ANNIE ROBINSON, a former Mineral Point High School athlete, was on the oval for the South Dakota State University women’s track team last Saturday.
Robinson, freshman a distance runner, was one of 77 H athletes in the 5000m at the Kip Janvrin Open on the campus of Simpson College (la).
She placed 38th overall, and was the fourth Jackrabbit to cross the finish line, with a time of 18:14.73.
SDSU travels to Vermillion, SD, this weekend to compete in the South Dakota Challenge.