The 2025 UW-Whitewater baseball team grabs for glory and the NCAA Division III baseball championship trophy Wednesday after defeating Messiah (Pa.), 21-5, in the best-of-3 Division III World Series in Eastlake, Ohio. The Warhawks finish with a 49-6, a school record in victories, and it is the third Warhawk baseball championship since 2005.
The 2025 UW-Whitewater baseball team grabs for glory and the NCAA Division III baseball championship trophy Wednesday after defeating Messiah (Pa.), 21-5, in the best-of-3 Division III World Series in Eastlake, Ohio. The Warhawks finish with a 49-6, a school record in victories, and it is the third Warhawk baseball championship since 2005.
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EASTLAKE, Ohio — Matt Scolan slugged two of the UW-Whitewater baseball team's four home runs, helping propel the Warhawks to an NCAA Division III College World Series title with a 21-5 victory over Messiah on Wednesday.
The Warhawks (49-6), who pounded out 19 hits, led 5-0 after two innings and amassed a 19-0 lead through five and a half innings.
UW-Whitewater's Andy Thies hit a three-run blast to right field in the first inning.
Dominik McVay had a run-scoring double in the second and scored on Aaron Holland's single through the left side to make it 4-0.
Scolan sent a 1-2 pitch out to left field for a solo blast in the fifth. Thies and Eli Frank followed with RBI base knocks.
Scolan connected on a two-run shot to right in the sixth. Adam Cootway added a solo home run to left.
Holland, Scolan and Cootway, the top three hitters in the team's order, notched three hits apiece. Thies plated five runs while Cootway scored five times. Scolan and Darryl Jackson drove in three runs apiece.
Four UW-Whitewater pitches combined on an eight-hitter with six strikeouts and one walk.
Cade Hansen (12-1) started and earned the decision, allowing two earned runs on three hits with four punch outs and no walks in 5 1/3 innings.
The win marks UW-Whitewater's third national title after the program also won championships in 2005 and 2014.
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