The UIS baseball team continued its series against the Upper Iowa Peacocks with a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon. UIS fell to 22-18, 13-14 GLVC after splitting the twinbill.
Game One (W, 9-1)
- The Prairie Stars hit three home runs in the first game of the day. Brant Vanaman's two-run shot came in the first inning to put UIS on the board
- Mark Kattula homered immediately after
- UIS added another run when Johnny Colombo singled to plate TJ Yakimisky
- Yakimisky hit a grand slam in the fourth to make it an 8-0 game
- Jackson Blemler then singled in an insurance run
- The Peacocks managed a run in the seventh before Jacob Newman ended it with a strikeout
- Newman went the distance for his first complete game win. The five-strikeout, zero-walk performance improved his record to 3-5
- The Peacocks found three runs on four hits in the first inning of game two and kept UIS off base with a good pitching start
- UIU homers added two runs in the second and three runs in the third
- The Prairie Stars began their response in the third inning Brant Vanaman scored on Mark Kattula's RBI single
- Two more runs crossed in the bottom of the fifth, the first on another hit by Kattula. Vanaman then scored another run when Mack Clark grounded into a double play
- Each team added a run in the sixth to reach the final score of 9-4 in UIU's favor
- Starting pitcher Riley Moran fell to 2-2 with the loss