RIPON, Wis.- The Ripon College baseball team split a doubleheader to close out the season series with Beloit College this afternoon. The Red Hawks fell 9-3 in game one and picked up a 6-1 win in game two. Ripon moved to 10-10 on the season and 6-4 in the Midwest Conference while the Buccaneers are now 15-6 and 9-1 in the conference.

Kyler Hickman finished the day going 4-for-7 with three RBIs, a run scored, a home run, and a double.

Ripon is on the road on Tuesday at 2 pm for a non-conference match-up when it faces the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Game 1: Ripon 3, Beloit 9

The Buccaneers took an early 7-0 lead going into the bottom of the fourth when Ripon was able to get on the board for the first time as it used three hits to drive in its first run to make it, 7-1. The Red Hawks added its second run in the bottom of the sixth, but Beloit got both runs back in the top of the seventh to go up 9-2.

A late solo shot from Hickman gave Ripon its third run to make it a 9-3 game. It was his fourth home run of the season, which leads the team.

Starting pitcher Caleb Mammoser allowed seven runs (four earned) in 2.1 innings of work. He finished with a pair of strikeouts.
 
Game 2: Ripon 6, Beloit 1

Both teams went scoreless for the first four innings until the Red Hawks plated five runs in the bottom of the fifth. With one out, Remington Cox singled to right center and later moved to second off a fielding error by the shortstop. The error allowed Gabriel Zielinski to reach first on the play. Jack Anderson's double to right center allowed Cox to score to make it 1-0 and send Zielinski to third. Zielinski later scored off of Kaleb Burns' RBI single to center. Anderson advanced to third on the play.  Burns later stole second to put both runners in scoring position. Then Cormac Madigan's RBI single up the middle scored Anderson to make 3-0 and send Burns to third.

Burns then scored off of Cam Stampfl's sacrifice bunt and move Madigan up 90 feet as well. Madigan then took advantage of a wild pitch to move to third. With two outs now, Hickman singled to left center to plate Madigan to put Ripon up 5-0 before a flyout to left ended the inning.

Beloit was able to get one of the five runs back in the top of the sixth but a balk in the bottom of the seventh gave the Red Hawks their sixth run of the game and take a 6-1 lead. Ripon's pitching posted back-to-back scoreless innings to close out the game.

Starter Mitchell Lukasik picked up his second win (2-1) of the season for the Red Hawks. He scattered nine hits over the course of eight innings allowing one run (earned) and striking out a season-high seven. Reliever Brock Turkington threw an inning while fanning two in the process.