MADISON, WISC. - Friday's Region 4 baseball doubleheader between between Madison College and Carl Sandburg College seemed to come-and-go in a flash as the teams played 14 innings over two games in a total of two hours and 40 minutes at Robin Robert Field. The opener, which took just 70 minutes to complete, saw freshman Michael Carpenter strike out ten batters to lead the #6-ranked WolfPack to a 2-1 win before a five-run fourth inning propelled the home team to an 8-3 victory in the nightcap. With their tenth win in their last 11 meetings, Madison College is 22-5 all-time against the Chargers.

Game #1: #6 Madison College 2, Carl Sandburg College 1

Lefthander Michael Carpenter opened the first game with a strikeout of the Chargers lead off hitter, seting a tone for how the remainder of the game would go. He fanned the side in the top of the second before the WolfPack used a two-out single from Carter Stebane to plate Grant Ross for a 1-0 lead. A walk to Ross, a Payton Frehner double, and a Will Johannes sacrifice fly in the fourth pushed the lead to 2-0 before CSC took advantage of a walk and consecutive singles to get within a run in the fifth. 

A double play got Carpenter out of the fifth inning, he remained in the game into the top of the seventh. After a called strike three on the first batter gave Carpenter a career-high ten K's, Grant Ross was brough into close out the win for his team-leading third save. 

Carpenter (2-1), a Hartland, Wisconsin, native, has fanned 19 batters over his last 14.2 innings, with his double-digit tally marking the highest by a Madison pitcher so far this season.

At the plate, Ross went 1 for 2 with a walk and scored a team-high two runs. Stabane posted one hit, one walk, and one run batted in.

Game #2: #6 Madison College 8, Carl Sandburg College 3

Madison College (25-6) got out to a 3-0 lead over the first two innings of the day's last game. An error by Carl Sandburg College (16-20) in the first inning allowed Clayton Slack to score from second. An inning later, Dayton Rozinski-Hicks led off with double, and scored four batters later on a fielder's choice by Slack. Gabe Roessler followed with a bunt single to push Carson Shepard in from third. 

The Chargers came back to even the score with a run in the third on a WolfPack error and a two-run, two-out double in the fourth. Madison, however, had an immediate answer, using three hits, two hit batters, a sac bunt, and an error to tally five runs in the fourth. With the bases loaded, Payton Frehner grounded a single to right to score Slack and Nick Nowak, and Ryan Santi's well-executed sac bunt scored Roessler to make the advantage 6-3. Two batters later Carter Stebane singled up the middle, driving in Evan Iwinski and Frehner for a five-run lead.

Sophomore starter Chris Byhre (3-2) limit the opposition to three unearned runs on seven hits and two walks. He struck out six over five innings before freshman Allen Leitner slammed the door shut with two scoreless innings that featured one hit and one strike out.

Seven different players recorded a single hit for Madison College. Frehner, a former Waukesha North HS athlete, produced two RBI and a run scored, while Slack, a Viroqua, Wisconsin, native, had two runs and one batted in. Stebane also finished with a hit and two runs batted in.

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