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Box Score 2 Dayton, Ohio -- Wright State scored a run in
the bottom of the ninth to win game one and held off a ninth-inning
rally in game two to pick up a pair of one-run victories over the
Youngstown State baseball team on Sunday at Nischwitz Stadium.
In game one, the Raiders scored the final four runs in the last
two innings to win 4-3 after YSU starter Eric Marzec
held them scoreless for six innings. WSU won game two 9-8 after
heading into the ninth leading 9-5.
Tom
Clayton homered in each game, and Joe Iacobucci
had four of YSU's 16 hits in the nightcap. Wright State captured
the Horizon League regular-season title with the two victories.
Marzec, making his first start since March 11, 2009, was
masterful. Serving as the team's closer for the first three months
of the year, Marzec did not allow a hit until there were two outs
in the sixth and surrendered just two walks. He made 90 pitches and
left with a 3-0 lead.
Clayton broke a scoreless tie with a leadoff homer in the fourth
off WSU starter Jon Durket. An RBI single by C.J. Morris in
the seventh put YSU ahead 2-0, and Anthony
Porter brought in Jeremy Banks
with a sacrifice fly to make the score 3-0.
Blake
Aquadro relieved Marzec in the seventh and retired the side in
order, but he allowed a double to Casey McGrew and an RBI single to
R.J. Gundolff to start the eighth. Garrett Gray tied the score
later in the inning with a two-run double off Phil Klein.
Klein allowed an infield single to Aaron Fields to leadoff the
ninth, and Fields ended up scoring the winning run on Jake
Hibberd's two-out single off Alex Frey.
Wright State scored the first seven runs in game two, but
Youngstown State did not wither. The Penguins scored five straight
runs to make the score 7-5, and they scored three times in the
ninth before ultimatley falling 9-8.
The Raiders got single tallies in the second and third innings,
and they blew the game open with a five-run fourth. Three of those
runs came on a Dan Marsh homer.
Clayton singled in a run in the fifth innings, and Derek Carr's
two-run double highlighted a three-run sixth. Clayton scored on Neil
Schroth's RBI groundout in the seventh to make the score 7-5.
Sam Mote hit a two-out, two-run double in the seventh to give
Wright State two big insurance runs, and the Penguins came up one
run short in the ninth. Clayton hit a solo homer with one out, and
Casey
Holland and Jeremy Banks hit back-to-back RBI singles with two
outs. Armani
Johnson pinch ran for Banks and went to second on a wild pitch,
but he was stranded there as Marzec flew out to the wall in center
for the game's final out.
The Penguins will play Bowling Green on Tuesday before wrapping
up their regular season schedule on Thursday and Friday at
Milwaukee.