Today is Thursday, October 8, 2026
The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3Baseball released their annual All-Region teams for NCAA Division III Baseball this afternoon.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team, a member of Region IX, earned numerous accolades, including two major awards from the two programs.
Aaron Holland (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North), Matt Scolan (Downers Grove, Ill./South), and Adam Cootway (DePere, Wis./Fox Valley Lutheran) earned First Team honors for both ABCA and D3Baseball.
Max Huseboe (Ripon, Wis./Ripon) was a First Team selection to the D3Baseball All-Region Team. He adds to his WIAC Pitcher of the Year accolade, earning D3Baseball’s All-Region IX Pitcher of the Year award
In addition to a First Team ballot, Matt Scolan (Downers Grove, Ill./South) was named the Position Player of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Scolan was named the WIAC Position Player of the Year
Holland, the Warhawks starting catcher, appeared in 49 out of the 50 games played so far this season. The sophomore leads the team in hits with 84, the third most in a single Warhawk season.
Cootway has appeared in every game for the Warhawks, playing infield, outfield, and primarily designated hitter. Cootway is second in the Warhawk Single Season Record Book with his 18 home runs in 2025.
Andy Thies (Tallahassee, Fla./Lawton Chiles) and Cade Hansen (New Braunfels, Texas/Smithson Valley) were named to the ABCA All-Region First Team, while picking up Second Team honors from D3Baseball.
Thies has been a pivotal part of the Warhawk offense and showcased his skills with a two home-run game against UW-Oshkosh in the NCAA Super Regional.
Hansen makes up part of the Warhawk pitching rotation, the junior is 10-1 record and has three complete games during the 2025 season.
Logan Eisenbarth (Barrington, Ill./Barrington) and Eli Frank (Bayport, Wis./Bay Port) rounded out the Warhawks selections. Eisenbarth was selected to the ABCA Second Team, with Frank earning Third Team All-Region honors.
The Warhawks are finishing preparations and leave for Eastlake, Ohio, tomorrow morning. UW-Whitewater will face Trinity (Texas) in the first round of the NCAA Division III World Series on Friday, May 30th at 8 PM (ET).
Editor’s note: This article appeared on the UW-W Athletics website.
Return to Eastlake: Warhawk Baseball Advances to NCAA World Series after Decisive Game against UW-Oshkosh
Titans force third game, but UWW answers back with a 10-0 shutout to clinch their spot in the DIII World Series for the second consecutive season
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team will make their return to Eastlake, Ohio after an all-around showcase in a decisive third game against UW-Oshkosh in the NCAA Division III Super Regional in Whitewater, Wisconsin.
The Titans (35-16) forced a decisive third game, after opening the day with a 5-2 victory, but the Warhawks shut-out the Titans in the decision, allowing their bats to get to work with 10 runs on 17 hits.
To open the day, it was a must win for the Titans in the best-of-three series as the Warhawks took the opening game with a dominant 14-1 win, yesterday. Read more…
The Titans got out to an early start on defense, stranding the Warhawks on the corners at the top of the first. UW-Oshkosh was the designated home team per NCAA policy in both games of the day. The momentum shifted into the bottom of the frame as UWO took an early 3-0 lead with an RBI-single and 2-run homer in the first inning.
Eli Frank (Bayport, Wis./Bay Port) closed the gap with a 2-out RBI single in the third, but UW-Oshkosh would make back up the run immediately with a sacrifice in the bottom of the inning.
The Warhawks had eight hits in the early game, but nothing was together. That changed in the 6th, when three consecutive singles ended with an RBI for Darryl Jackson (Milwaukee, Wis./Rufus King). That run cut the lead to just two, where it held until the bottom 8th.
UW-Oshkosh added an insurance run in the bottom of the 8th with a small ball rally. UW-Whitewater couldn’t make up the deficit with their last three outs, setting the stage for the decisive third game at Prucha Field.
The Warhawks batted first again in the third game, and it didn’t take long to get the bats going. The second inning began with three straight singles to load the bases for UWW. However, UW-Oshkosh managed to escape only allowing one run on a sacrifice fly from Jackson.
Andy Thies (Tallahassee, Fla./Lawton Chiles) tacked on another run, hitting his first home run of the day in the top of the 3rd. Dominik McVay (Mineral Point, Wis./Mineral Point) followed it up in the next frame, with his own no-doubter to left field. McVay’s jack scored two, but the Warhawks continued to rally in the top of the fourth. Thies and Frank each hit doubles that bounced high off the outfield wall to score two more as the UWW lead increased to 6-0.
Logan Eisenbarth (Barrington, Ill./Barrington) continued to deal on the mound, putting down nine batters straight. The offense added on two more to help him and the defense out, a sacrifice fly from Matt Scolan (Downers Grove, Ill./South) in the 5th and Andy Thies’s (Tallahassee, Fla./Lawton Chiles) second home run of the game in the 6th.
In the top of the 7th, the Titans got through three outs without allowing a run for the first time since the first inning. Eli Frank (Bayport, Wis./Bay Port) changed that in the top of the 8th with just one swing, hitting the 100th home run of the season for the Warhawk crew.
Eisenbarth was relieved in the eighth and made his way to the dugout under a standing ovation from the Warhawk faithful. Jack Hagen (San Clemente, Cal./San Clemente) picked up where he left off, keeping the Titans shut out in the final two innings of work.
Thies added an insurance run in the top of the ninth, going from second to home on a dropped-third-strike wild pitch.
UW-Oshkosh grabbed their only extra-base-hit of the game in the bottom of the ninth, but a fly out to Scolan in left field secured the Warhawks’ spot in the NCAA Division III World Series for the second consecutive season.
Eisenbarth earned the win on the mound, going 7.0 innings without allowing a run and only three hits. The junior fanned six batters on the way to his 8th victory of the season.
The Warhawks will await word from the NCAA on the seeding for the NCAA World Series. Information will be released via www.ncaa.com/sports/baseball/d3 in the coming days. For the most up-to-date news and stories, visit uwwsports.com or download the Warhawk Athletics App.
Editor’s note: The above article was posted to the UW-Whitewater website.
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By Angela Kelm
Asst. Athletic Director for Sports Information
Winona, Minn. – The Warhawks’ phenomenal 2025 campaign came to a close in the NCAA Division III Super Regional hosted by Saint Mary’s University Friday. UW-Whitewater fell in the opener 4-0 and the if necessary game 7-1 to wrap up the season with a 39-8 record.
UW-Whitewater opened the season on a 15-0 run. In Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play, UWW went 12-2 to secure the program’s 16 regular season conference title. Receiving an at-large bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, UW-Whitewater made its 25th appearance in the postseason, third trip to the Super Regionals and the Warhawks’ tallied win #800 for Head Coach Brenda Volk along the way.
Friday saw the host school take an early lead as the Cardinals utilized small ball to push a single run across. SMU would add two more in the sixth and another in the seventh. Meanwhile, the Warhawks bats just couldn’t gather momentum. UWW was making good contact, registering six hits in the contest, but Saint Mary’s always seemed to stifle the momentum quickly.
Six different Warhawks recorded hits in the game while Brooke Hock suffered the loss in the circle to move to 7-2 on the season.
Game two was a little deja vu as the Warhawks won the coin flip for home team and SMU took an early lead on a solo homerun in the top of the first. They added two in the top of the second and a few more in the top of the seventh.
The Cardinal defense held the Warhawks at bay with some fantastic defensive plays, robbing multiple shots that looked to be at least base knocks with sliding, diving and leaping catching.
True to form, UW-Whitewater did not quit as Dani Peshia blasted a solo homer in the bottom of the seventh, but SMU held on for the win.
All of the UWW hits came from different Warhawks in the game. Josie Hammen suffered the loss to move to 18-3 on the season.
In a season that featured big win streaks, thrilling comeback victories and numerous gritty team wins, Friday was the first time UW-Whitewater had fallen in back-to-back games across their 47-game 2025 campaign.
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