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Stockton’s Fox earns spot on 2021 UW-Whitewater roster
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WHITEWATER — Hayden Fox, Stockton, Illinois, will compete for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team, which began March 9.

Fox made 14 relief appearances in 2019, finishing with 15 strikeouts and a 4.43 ERA in 22 1/3 innings.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team was set to return to the diamond for its first competition against an outside opponent in more than one year on March 9 against Northwestern (Minn.) at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

The Warhawks tallied a 2-1 record in three games played in Louisville, Ky., in Feb. 2020 before the remainder of the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In its most recent full season (2019), UW-Whitewater finished with a 35-12 record, including a 21-3 mark in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season, after sweeping the WIAC regular season and tournament championships and reaching the NCAA Tournament for the 12th consecutive year and 22nd time overall.

The Warhawks are currently ranked 16th in the D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Top 25. They were slotted fourth in Perfect Game’s NCAA Division III Preseason Top 25 and 23rd in Collegiate Baseball’s Preseason NCAA Division III Poll.

Head coach John Vodenlich is in his 18th season leading the program. He has led the Warhawks to 12 WIAC regular season championships, five conference tournament titles and 14 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, including two national championships (2005, 2014) in six trips to the Division III World Series.

Following its opener, the Warhawks will begin play exclusively against WIAC opponents starting March 20. Twenty-eight of the team’s 40 games during the regular season will count in the league standings, while the other 12 will only count against the team’s overall record.

UW-W will play eight of its nine games in March at Prucha Field at Miller Stadium, including doubleheaders against UW-Stevens Point (March 20), UW-Oshkosh (March 23), Finlandia (March 27) and UW-La Crosse (March 31). The first three doubleheaders are non-conference games.

The regular season wraps up May 15 as the Warhawks host UW-Eau Claire. The WIAC Championship will take place at Miller Stadium the following week. More details on the conference tournament will be released in the coming weeks.

The NCAA Tournament begins in late May, with the Division III World Series set for June 3-9 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.