The University of Illinois Springfield baseball team, which moved up to No. 4 in the national rankings earlier in the day, continued its best start in program history with a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday afternoon at home. The Prairie Stars defeated Oakland City by scores of 12-0 and 10-4.
 
In the opener, UIS scored six times in the second inning to open up a big lead. Nick Wisz had the big hit with a three-run double to open the scoring. The Prairie Stars scored then at least one run in every inning from the fifth through eighth frames.
 
Brock Immke got the win on the mound, throwing six innings and allowing just two hits and one walk. He retired the first 12 batters he faced and struck out five. Brendan Anderson, Joe Dittmar, and Matt Johnston completed the shutout for UIS.
 
Offensively, Austin Alderman and Nick Wisz combined for five hits, four runs, and seven RBI from the six and seven spots in the batting order. Alderman had three hits, three runs, and two RBI, while Wisz had five RBI, scored once, and had two hits. John Sechen and Brandon Bannon also had two hits apiece.
 
In the second game, UIS had a 3-0 lead until Oakland City scored twice in the fourth inning. The Prairie Stars quickly responded with a five-run bottom of the fourth. Nick Mayerhofer had a perfect suicide squeeze bunt that scored two after the throw to first got past the first baseman. That opened up a big inning in which the team scored four unearned runs. UIS would add two more insurance runs in the fifth inning.
 
Sechen and Mayerhofer both drove in two runs, and Ruben Markham and Mayerhofer each scored twice. Markham had three hits in game two. Gunnar Kay got the win after going four innings and allowing two runs. He struck out four and did not walk a batter.
 
UIS is now 7-0 on the season, which extends its longest winning streak to start a year.