Position of power: Wosman returns to seeing barrel meet ball, crushes pair of homers for Hawks

Quincy University's Nolan Wosman. left, celebrates one of his two home runs Thursday against Wayne State with teammates Austin Simpson, center, and Lance Logsdon during the Hawks' 18-8 victory at QU Stadium. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — Nolan Wosman has never lost sight of what matters. A frustrating weekend swinging the bat couldn’t change that. A week ago, during the Quincy University baseball team’s four-game march to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament championship, the senior second baseman struggled to marry the barrel to the ball. He went 2 for…

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Living in a hitter’s paradise: Hawks slug seven home runs, sweep GLVC series from Bulldogs

Quincy University's Nolan Wosman rounds third base after hitting a solo home run in the fifth inning of Sunday's 20-7 victory over Truman State at QU Stadium. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — A sun-splashed Sunday afternoon with the wind whipping into the right-center field gap and temperatures rising above the stocking cap barometer turned QU Stadium into a hitter’s paradise. No wonder the Quincy University baseball team’s entire lineup salivated over the possibilities. “I think it’s almost impossible not to, especially when you have 20…

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Wosman’s walk-off single allows Hawks to rebound and split GLVC doubleheader

Quincy University second baseman Nolan Wosman singled in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday to drive in the winning run in a 5-4 walk-off victory against Missouri S&T at QU Stadium. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — What’s the best way to respond to a pummeling? Come back and deliver the final blow. The Quincy University baseball team is pretty good at finishing with a punch. After allowing the most runs in a Great Lakes Valley Conference game in at least two decades in a 20-10 loss, the Hawks salvaged…

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Wosman raises batting average 130 points with five hits in doubleheader split with Catfish

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Nolan Wosman entered Tuesday night’s Prospect League doubleheader with a .180 batting average. The infielder from Quincy University and Palmyra, Mo., left Capaha Park with a .310 average after collecting five hits against the Cape Catfish, which split a doubleheader with the Quincy Gems. The visitors won the first game 5-3,…

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20/20 Vision: Hawks score early, often and plenty to get within one victory of NCAA Division II World Series

Quincy University's Gino D'Alessio, left, and Dayson Croes celebrate after scoring on Lance Logsdon's double in the fourth inning of Friday's NCAA Division II Super Regional game at the University of Illinois-Springfield. | Photo courtesy of Max Bennett

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — It would appear the Quincy University baseball team tore the cover off the ball when taking a first glance at the boxscore from Friday afternoon’s 20-6 victory over Illinois-Springfield in the NCAA Division II Super Regional. Sixteen runs in the first four innings. Twenty hits, six of them for extra bases. It…

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Hawks’ Wosman picks up GLVC Player of the Week honors

Quincy University third baseman Nolan Wosman, left, celebrates his first-inning grand slam Sunday against Lewis with his teammates. It was Wosman's third home run of the series and propelled QU to winning the final three games of the Great Lakes Valley Conference series. Photo courtesy Stephanie Boynton

QUINCY — Nolan Wosman finally got his groove back. Hit in the helmet by a pitch in the first game of a four-game series against Illinois-Springfield on March 25, the Quincy University junior third baseman didn’t play the remainder of the weekend. He returned the following week and played in three of the four games…

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