May 25, 2001
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* Play began at 6:24 p.m. after a 2:24 rain delay.
*The nine-run fourth inning is Notre Dame's highest-scoring inning of
the season (previous high was eight in a 10-2 win at Rutgers and a 15-4
win over Georgetown) and marks the most runs given up in an inning by
Wisconsin-Milwaukee this season.
* Wisconsin-Milwaukee falls to 1-3 in NCAA tournament games.
* Tonight's loss is Wisconsin-Milwaukee's first ever in the first game
of the NCAA tournament.
* With tonight's single and home run, University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee's Scott Gillitzer set a school-record with 32 multi-hit games.
* Gillitzer is two RBIs short of tying the school record for RBIs in a
season.
* Gillitzer (145) is also five bases short of a school record for bases
in a season.
* Gillitzer is now 7-for-9 at Frank Eck stadium in two games.
* Notre Dame is now 4-0 in NCAA tournament openers during the Mainieri
era (4-8 in pre-Mainieri era).
* Notre Dame is 21-3 this season versus teams that beat the Irish in
2000.
* Notre Dame's 47 wins are third in Irish history (1989 and 1992 squads
won 48 each).
* Notre Dame extends its first-inning scoring edge to 55-8 (32-2 at Eck
Stadium) and its fourth-inning advantage to 61-20.
* Notre Dame has 12 home runs in the last 10 games (only 25 in the first
49 games).
* Heilman set the Notre Dame record for wins in a season, passing Tom
Price (14-5 in 1994). He is 25-1 in his past 26 decisions.
* Heilman is now Notre Dame's leader for innings pitched (393.2, Price
had 390).
* Heilman is 43-7 for his career with 425 strikeouts.
* Heilman gave up just his third home run of the season (the 13th of his
career) to UW-Milwaukee's second baseman, Scott Gillitzer.
* Pitching his 10th straight complete game, Heilman broke a 91-year-old
record with his 12th complete game of the season (Billy Ryan had 11 in
1910). He has pitched one inning shy of a pre-determined maximum (114
of 115) all season. This was the 26th complete game of his career, just
two shy of Norwood Gibson's record 28 from 1896-1900.
* With his fourth-inning three-run homer, Porzel (37) ties Frank Jacobs
(1989-91) and Mike Amrhein (1994-97) for third on the Irish career HR
list, behind former teammates Jeff Wagner (49, 1996-99) and Brant Ust
(46, 1997-99).
* Stavisky improves his team-best batting average in games started by
Heilman (.455, 20-for-44).
* Stavisky is also hitting a team-best (.476, 40-for-84) at Eck Stadium
this season.
* Steve Stanley's 93 hits this season are tied for third in Notre Dame
history with Scott Sollmann (1995), behind Eric Danapilis (96 in 1993)
and Dan Peltier (115 in 1989).
* Stanley's five hits mark a career-high for hits in a game, he had seven
previous four-hit performances.
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