**UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater Sports Information Offices contributed to this recap.
MADISON, Wis.
–For the fourth consecutive season, two Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) baseball teams have reached the Super Regionals of the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship after UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater emerged with regional titles on May 18.
UW-Oshkosh (34-14) won the St. Peter, Minn., Regional with a 10-2 victory over University of Chicago (Ill.). The Titans opened regional action with a 34-8 drubbing of UChicago that featured a cycle by Jake Surane and the second-most runs scored in program history. UW-Oshkosh also set a WIAC record with 31 hits in the contest. The Titans then beat Gustavus Adolphus College (Minn.) 15-10. In a rematch with UChicago, UW-Oshkosh fell 7-3 to force a winner-take-all regional title game. The Titans will face UW-Whitewater in a best-of-three Super Regional.
UW-Whitewater (42-5) claimed the Adrian, Mich., Regional with a 4-1 win over Adrian College (Mich.) and followed with a 4-3, 11-inning victory over Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) before the clinching win.
UW-La Crosse also represented the conference in regional action. The Eagles opened NCAA action with a 4-2 victory over Bethany Lutheran College (Minn.) and an 8-6 triumph over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges (Calif.). UW-La Crosse then dropped back-to-back games to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps by scores of 11-2 and 6-2.
The Eagles completed the 2025 campaign with a 35-11 record and made their third consecutive NCAA appearance and ninth NCAA in program history.
In UW-Oshkosh’s regional-clinching victory over UChicago, the Maroons scored the first run of the game in the fourth inning with a groundout RBI and added another run in the fifth when on a solo home run.
After a scoreless sixth inning, Carter Stebane had a run-scoring single to right field, while Jack McKellips brought in a pair of runs with a single up the middle to give the Titans a 3-2 lead.
In the eighth inning, Owen Housinger had a RBI single to leftfield and the Titans tacked on another run when McKellips was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Mason Kirchberg had a sacrifice fly to deep left field for a 6-2 advantage.
In the ninth inning, Zach Taylor had a sacrifice fly and Stebane ripped a three-run home run down the left field line for a 9-2 lead. Mason Kirchberg added a RBI double to make the score 10-2.
Connor Walters pitched a complete game for the Titans, allowing two runs on four hits, while striking out five. He improved to 6-4 on the season.
In UW-Whitewater’s regional-clinching win over Adrian, the Warhawks got on the board in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Dominik McVay.
Adrian tied the game in the third inning on their own sacrifice fly, but UW-Whitewater loaded the bases up in the bottom of the third, and had a two-run single from Danny Hopper followed by a run-scoring single from Sam Paden to give the Warhawks a 4-1 advantage.
Ben Lee pitched the first seven innings and scattered five hits, while striking out four and allowing one unearned run. He improved to 5-1 on the season.
Ethan Wickman pitched 1.2 innings and struck out two, while Jack Hagen got the call on the mound for the final out and recorded his third save of the year.
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