Important Week Begins With Ripon Sweep

RIPON, Wisconsin – The Ripon baseball program began a critical stretch of games in the last week of the regular season on Monday, sweeping a doubleheader from Grinnell at Francis Field. Ripon (11-20, 8-11 MWC) used a seventh-inning surge in game one to defeat the Pioneers 7-5 and rallied from a three-run deficit in game two to post a 10-3 victory over Grinnell (14-22, 7-13 MWC) in the nightcap. Ripon struck first in game one as Kyler Hickman homered with two outs in the bottom of the first, scoring himself and Kaleb Burns , to put the Red Hawks in…