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Box Score 2 Dayton, Ohio -- Wright
State scored the game-winning run in its last at bat in both games
of a doubleheader sweep of the Youngstown State baseball team on
Saturday at Nischwitz Stadium.
The Raiders scored a run in the bottom of
the eighth in game one to break a 4-4 tie, and they rallied from
four runs down in game two to win 7-6 in 10 innings.
Senior John Koehnlein recorded his 200th
career hit in the third inning of game one and finished with a
total of six hits on the day.
Cody Dearth recorded his third straight
solid start in game one, allowing two earned runs on seven hits in
six innings. He left with the Penguins trailing 3-1, but YSU
rallied to tie the score at 4-4 in the top of the eighth. Wright
State answered by manufacturing a run in the bottom of the inning
to win 5-4.
The Raiders scored their only two earned
runs off Dearth in the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. R.J.
Gundolff walked to start the inning, and Casey McGrew and Jeff
Mercer had run-scoring hits. The double by McGrew was the Raiders'
only hit for extra bases in the contest.
The Penguins opened the third with three
straight singles but could only get one run across. C.J. Morris
drove in Jeremy Banks on a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded, but
Eric Marzec flew out to shallow right and Joe Iacobucci hit into a
fielder's choice.
Dearth worked out of a bases-loaded jam
in the bottom of the inning, but the Raiders got an unearned run in
the fourth to go up 3-1.
YSU had three straight two-out hits in
the seventh to get within one on Koehnlein's RBI single. Mercer,
though, singled home McGrew after a wild pitch in the bottom of the
inning to put Wright State up 4-2.
Banks hit a game-tying two-run double
with two outs in the top of the eighth, but Wright State answered
again with a run in the bottom half. Tristan Moore was hit by a
pitch to start the inning, and Gerald Ogrinc sacrificed him to
second. Gundolff then singled in the game-winning run.
Wright State starter Alex Kaminsky
allowed all four runs on 11 hits in eight innings. Freshman Michael
Schum earned his second save by throwing a perfect ninth.
In game two, Youngstown State pounded out
a season-high 16 hits and took a 5-1 lead in the top of the fifth
before Wright State rallied. The Raiders scored three in the bottom
of the fifth and two of the sixth to lead 6-5, and YSU scored a run
in the eighth to tie the game at 6-6. Wright State, though, got
another solid outing from Schum and scored the game-winner on a
one-out triple in the 10th.
Marzec doubled in Koehnlein in the first,
but Gundolff scored on a one-out single by Quentin Cate to even the
score at 1-1.
Iacobucci hit a two-out, two-run single
in the third to put YSU up 3-1, and he and Jacke Healey had RBIs in
the fifth as YSU took a 5-1 lead. The Penguins still had runners on
first and second with one out after Healey's RBI single, but
reliever Travis LaMar came in to get Anthony Porter to ground into
an inning-ending double play.
Wright State went on to score three runs
in the fifth on a two-run homer and an RBI ground out, and it got
three straight hits in the sixth to pull ahead 6-5.
Porter doubled to start the top of the
eighth, and pinch runner Jason Reitenbach scored on Koehnlein's
two-out single up the middle to tie the score.
Marzec, meanwhile, cruised through the
eighth and ninth innings on the mound afer working out of a
bases-loaded jam in the seventh. He retired eight straight hitters
until Mercer singled up the middle on an 0-2 pitch with one out in
the 10th. Moore then hit a triple to right for the game-winner.
Marzec was charged with the loss,
allowing just the one run in the 10th on three hits while striking
out five. Schum earned the victory, allowing one hit and striking
out three in 2.1 innings.
The Penguins will play at Duquesne on
Tuesday at 3 p.m.