University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee standout Ricky Franklin earned a second workout with the Milwaukee Bucks today. Franklin, who also worked out for the team on June 3, was joined by a stellar group of players. Three of the six were pegged as possible first-round picks by Bucks Director of Scouting Billy McKinney, including Devin Ebanks of West Virginia, Damion James of Texas and Quincy Pondexter of Washington. Marqus Blakely of Vermont and Aubrey Coleman of Houston also joined Franklin at the workout. Franklin, a Milwaukee native, earned All-Horizon League Second Team honors for the Panthers this past season. The point guard started every game, leading UWM in scoring and three-pointers made while standing second in rebounds. In the process, he helped Milwaukee to just the 10th 20-win season in school history.

After winning the Horizon League tournament, the UW-Milwaukee baseball team gets a tough assignment for its first game in the NCAA Tournament.

Pitcher Chad Pierce put UW-Milwaukee in position to win, and his Panthers teammates delivered Sunday to secure a berth in the NCAA baseball tournament.

No. 2 seed Milwaukee claimed the 2010 Horizon League Baseball Championship presented by U.S. Army. The Panthers defeated No. 1 seed Wright State 6-3 in the final contest of the event and earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.

Sam Sivilotti drove in three runs and Chad Pierce pitched into the seventh inning to lead the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team to a thrilling 6-3 victory over Wright State University Sunday in the Horizon League Tournament Championship game. The Panthers (33-24) scored first against the Raiders (31-25) and never trailed, earning a bid to the 2010 NCAA Tournament with the victory at the U.S. Steel Yard. Sivilotti gave Milwaukee a 2-0 lead with a two-out RBI-single in the fourth inning. He then came up in even a bigger spot in the sixth inning, sending a 3-2 pitch - the ninth of the at bat - to the right center gap with two down to plate two more runs and give UWM a 4-1 lead at the time. Pierce, who was coming off a 150-pitch effort in a win over Valparaiso Thursday, came back on short rest and was a warrior on the mound. He worked into the seventh, giving up just two runs on six hits.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team will play for a chance to go to the 2010 NCAA Tournament Sunday, taking on Wright State University in the Horizon League Tournament Championship at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Steel Yard. The Panthers (32-24) and Raiders (31-24) return for a rematch of Saturday's championship round contest, won by UWM by a score of 14-7.

Wright State fell behind 8-1 after Milwaukee scored three in the third and five in the fourth and could not recover as the Raiders fell to the Panthers 14-7 in the first game of the finals of the Horizon League Baseball Championship presented by the U.S. Army Saturday at U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana.

No. 2 seed Milwaukee forces Game 11 as the Panthers crush No. 1 seed Wright State, 14-7, in Game 10 of the 2010 Horizon League Baseball Championship presented by U.S. Army.

No. 1 seed Wright State edged past No. 2 seed Milwaukee, 1-0, in Game 8 of the 2010 Horizon League Baseball Championship presented by U.S. Army.

Junior Jayme Sukowaty allowed just three hits and one run in a complete-game effort, but came up on the wrong side of a 1-0 decision as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team dropped a heartbreaker to Wright State University Friday night at the Horizon League Tournament. The Panthers (30-24) and Raiders (31-23) were locked in a pitcher's dual all game at the U.S. Steel Yard, as the two hurlers combined for 17 strikeouts, no walks and just nine total hits allowed. Sukowaty's counterpart, Casey Henn, was just as brilliant, setting a new league tournament record by striking out 14 batters while also throwing a complete game.