GLENDALE, Wis. –
OakLee Spens (
Sr.-South Weber, Utah) and
Tucker Gegenfurtner (
So.-Onalaska, Wis.) finished the season with three hits each on the day but the Lakeland University baseball team closed out its campaign falling twice to Milwaukee School of Engineering Friday evening.
The Raiders won by scores of 18-3 and 8-1 to clinch the outright Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference regular season title. Lakeland closed its season out with an 11-28 overall record and finished 5-19 in the NACC.
Spens hit a two-run double in the first game, extending his Muskies school record for doubles with his 47th career double. He added two hits and also drove in Lakeland's lone run in the second game, finishing his career with 179 career hits, second-most all-time in program history to only Vance Henning's 184 hits from 1999-2002.
Gegenfurtner finished a stellar sophomore season that included a team-high 60 hits, fourth-most in a season in school history. He hit safely in 35 of 39 games and reached base in all but three games while leading the team in hits, batting average (.387), doubles (14), home runs (3) and runs batted in (36).
MSOE (24-16 overall, 18-6 NACC) dominated the first game, building a 15-0 lead after three innings. The Muskies scored their three runs in the fourth inning, with
Chris Day (
Jr.-Victorville, Calif.) singling to drive in
Landen Sobieski (
Sr.-Berlin, Wis.) and Spens later driving in both Day and
Caleb Sumsion (
Jr.-Dayton, Nev.) with his double.
Lakeland tied the second game at 1-1 in the second inning after
Logan South (
Fr.-Oswego, Ill.) led off with a single and scored an infield single by Spens. The scored stayed tied until the bottom of the fifth, when the Raiders scored six times. MSOE sent 11 batters to the plate in the inning with five of its eight hits for the game to take control.
Gegenfurtner and Sumsion both had two hits in the first game and Day also added one hit in both games.
Sutton Shurley (
Jr.-Fort Worth, Texas) had the lone clean pitching outing in the opener, throwing one hitless inning with a strikeout.
Gegenfurtner took the loss in the second game, allowing six hits and seven runs (four earned) with five strikeouts and five walks in 4 2/3 innings.
Rily Roberts (
Fr.-Chattanooga, Tenn.) threw 2 1/3 innings, allowing two hits and one run with a strikeout and
Eli Watkins (
So.-Herrin, Ill.) threw a scoreless eighth with two strikeouts.
The games were the final ones for seniors Sobieski, Spens and
Zak Keegan (
Frankfort, Ill.). Spens also finished tied with Henning for the Lakeland career record for runs with 127. Keegan also finished third in school history in hits (172), tied for second in triples (10) and seventh in RBIs (90).
