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La Crosse & Whitewater both advance in NCAA baseball regionals

May 20, 2016 By Bill Scott

Justin Anderson: Photo Courtesy of UW-La Crosse Athletics – Jim Lund

UW-La Crosse and UW-Whitewater are both off to 2-0 starts in their NCAA Division 3 baseball regionals.

In La Crosse, the host Eagles crushed St. John’s of Minnesota 10-0 on Thursday afternoon as Justin Anderson went four for six with a home run.

La Crosse hosts Concordia of Chicago late Friday afternoon.

Beloit College is headed home after dropping both of their games. They were eliminated on Thursday morning, falling 8-1 to St. Scholastica.

At the Central Regional in Sauget, Illinois, UW-Whitewater crushed Augustana 15-3. The Warhawks will face Rose Hulman late Friday afternoon.

La Crosse & Whitewater both win on day 1 of NCAA’s

May 19, 2016 By Bill Scott

Taylor Kohlwey: Photo Courtesy of UW-La Crosse Athletics – Jim Lund

UW-La Crosse turned their first round NCAA Division 3 Midwest Regional matchup with Beloit College into an easy win. The Eagles scored in every inning but the third in posting a 17-2 win over the Buccaneers.

Eagles slugger Taylor Kohlwey extended his hitting streak to 46 straight games, going 3 for 5 with 3 runs scored and five runs batted in.

La Crosse improved to 35-8 and will face St. John’s of Minnesota late this afternoon in a winners bracket contest.

Beloit College fell to 27-13 and will face St. Scholastica in a losers bracket contest this morning.

Warhawks advance

In the Central Regional in Sauget, Illinois, top seeded Whitewater won their opening round game, 11-4 over Westminster of Missouri.

The Warhawks will face Augustana of Illinois this afternoon in second round action.

La Crosse wins WIAC baseball title

May 16, 2016 By Bill Scott

Taylor Kohlwey – Photo Courtesy of UW-La Crosse Athletics

UW-La Crosse scored six times in the bottom of the first inning to wipe out a one-run deficit to knock off UW-Whitewater in the WIAC title game at Copeland Park in La Crosse.

Senior outfielder Taylor Kohlwey, who started the day hitting .284, ripped a three-run homer in the first inning to extend his hitting streak to 45 games. Kohlwey hit for the cycle and finished 4 for 5 with four rbi and three runs scored, raising his average to .497.

Kohlwey’s hitting streak started last season and is the 3rd longest in Division 3 history.

The Eagles (34-8), who finished as division 3 runner-up last season will host an NCAA Regional and will open play Wednesday against Midwest Conference Champion Beloit college.

Whitewater received an at large bid and will take on Westminster of Missouri at Webster College on Wednesday in the Central Regional.

The regional winners will advance to the NCAA Division 3 College World Series at Fox Cities Stadium in the Fox Cities starting May 27th.

Beloit College hires new football coach

February 10, 2014 By Bill Scott

Beloit College has named Seth Duerr as its head football coach today.

Seth Duerr

Duerr arrives in Beloit as the Buccaneers’ 28th head football coach in the program’s 123-year history after two seasons as the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Tiffin University in Tiffin, Ohio.

Prior to Tiffin, Duerr spent seven seasons as the defensive coordinator at the College of Wooster, his alma mater. He also was the defensive line coach at Ohio Northern University for one season and was a two-year graduate assistant at Averett University, coaching the running backs.

Duerr played linebacker at Wooster from 1997-2000. He was a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, given annually to NCAA Division III’s Outstanding Football Player of the Year. He was twice named First Team All-American, twice named the conference Defensive Player of the Year and became just the fourth player in conference history to earn First Team honors four straight seasons.

Duerr was inducted into the Wooster Hall of Fame in 2011.