May 10, 2001

MILWAUKEE - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team welcomes Butler to Henry Aaron Field for a four-game series this weekend, looking to win the outright Midwestern Collegiate Conference regular season championship and break a number of team and individual records in the process.

Friday's series opener begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, the two teams will play a doubleheader at noon, while Sunday's series finale also begins at noon

UWM (32-15, 13-3 MCC) opens the weekend three games ahead of UIC (27-25, 10-6 MCC) in the MCC. The Flames play a four-game series at Detroit this weekend. The Panthers can clinch a tie for the title with a win Friday night or a UIC loss. Any combination of UWM wins or UIC losses adding up to two will give the Panthers their first-ever outright regular season crown.

UWM will also honor its nine seniors between games of Saturday's doubleheader.

Also this weekend, UWM has its sights set on a number of school records and milestones.

* UWM has won 198 games since Jerry Augustine became head coach in 1995. Augustine, the winningest coach in UWM history, could become the first Panther coach to win 200 games.

* The current school record for wins is 33, set in 1998. UWM enters this weekend with 32. Also, the Panthers have 13 MCC wins, one short of the school record of 14.

* UWM has scored 461 runs this season, and the single-season school record is 469. The Panthers could also break records for hits and RBI this weekend.

* Senior Scott Gillitzer has 78 hits this season, one short of the single-season school record. Gillitzer is also on pace to break single-season records for runs and doubles, while Darin Haugom could break single-season records for triples and stolen bases.