APPLETON, Wis. - The 2022 Ripon College baseball season came to an end Saturday afternoon with a 9-4 loss to University of Chicago in the double-elimination event. The Red Hawks finish the season with a 20-23 overall record, which was a 12-win improvement on the previous season.

Ripon took the game's first lead in the bottom of the third inning when Keegan Johnston and Nick Terrell each recorded RBI singles. Chicago (23-15) tied things up with two runs in the following inning, before taking the lead on an RBI single in the fifth. Ripon would answer that in the bottom of the fifth with a run-scoring single of their own off the bat of Samuel Ott to tie the score at three.

Chicago then began to pull away in the sixth, which saw them score four times, before adding two more in the seventh. The Red Hawks tried to mount a comeback in the bottom of the ninth, scoring on a Zach Albrent double, but that was all the damage they could inflict.

Ripon finished with 13 hits in the game, led by Albrent, Johnston, Jake Pankratz, and Brock Warren, with two hits apiece. Warren started on the mound and pitched well, allowing three runs on eight hits in five innings of work, leaving a tied ball game before Chicago's bats heated up. Brandon Peace pitched two scoreless innings of relief, striking out two batters, without issuing a walk.

The Red Hawks finish the year with new school records for stolen bases (60) and base on balls (204), while recording the third-most hits in a single season in program history (448). They also ranked seventh in runs scored (303), second in doubles (91), eighth in home runs (28) and RBI (260), and sixth in total bases (637). On the mound, this year's Ripon team struck out 250 batters, which is the fourth-highest single season total in program history.