Niles, Ohio -- Tom Clayton continued his torrid hitting pace, but Wright State scored in the first five innings and broke open a two-run game by scoring three times in the eighth as the Youngstown State baseball team dropped game one of a doubleheader to the Raiders 10-6 at Eastwood Field on Friday.

Clayton, Division I's top hitter, was 4-for-4 with a single, two doubles and home run. In his other plate appearance he was hit by a pitch. He raised his average to a robust .514 following his effort at the dish. His home run a was a no-doubt shot that came in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Jeremy Banks and Eric Marzec homered as well for the Penguins, but Wright State built a 7-2 lead and rode starter Alex Kaminsky to the complete-game victory. Kaminsky struck out 11 while walking just one while improving to 4-3 on the year. He scattered 10 hits and allowed six earned runs.

YSU senior Aaron Swenson took the loss in the final home start of his career. Swenson battled for eight innings allowing 10 runs, all earned, on 11 hits while striking out five. During the contest he set a new school mark for career innings pitched.

On a day with the wind whipping out to right centerfield, the teams combined for 16 runs and 21 hits. Of this 21 hits, five were home runs.

Wright State (21-17 overall and 10-4 in the Horizon League) scored once in the first and broke through for three runs in the top of the second inning.

Marzec got the Guins on the scoreboard in the bottom of the second with a solo shot, his fifth of the season and third in the last two games.

Both teams picked up a run in the third inning. With two outs, Gerald Ogrinc hit a line-drive home run to extend the WSU advantage to 5-1. In the home half of the inning, Clayton singled home Neal Schroth cutting the deficit to 5-2.

Wright State picked up a run in the fourth inning when when R.J. Gundolff scored on a single by Quentin Cate and again in the fifth when Tristan Moore scored on a sacrifice fly by Aaron Fields.

YSU kept chipping away picking up a run in the fifth when Clayton scored on Joe Iacobucci's single. However, the Guins left the bases loaded when Anthony Porter flied out to deep center.

In the seventh, Banks got solid aluminum on a 1-1 pitch from Kaminsky for a two-run jack to pull the Penguins within 7-5.

In the top of the eighth, Swenson didn't get the benefit of a 2-2 call with two outs and the Raiders made him pay. After Cate walked, Garrett Gray blasted a three-run shot giving Wright State a 10-5 cushion.

Clayton picked up second RBI of the game and scored his third run in the ninth on a solo shot.

The Penguins and Raiders are set to play game two later today.