Niles, Ohio -- Oakland starting pitcher Brandon Decker allowed two hits over seven innings, and the Golden Grizzlies avoided a series sweep with an 11-2 victory over the Youngstown State baseball team on Sunday at Eastwood Field.

Decker, who gave up a walk-off home run to Eli Brown on Saturday, allowed a two-out single in the first before retiring the next 15 batters he faced. He allowed the first two Penguins to reach in the bottom of the eighth before heading to the dugout, and Brett Stanley's two-run single in the eighth came off reliever Brody Krzysiak for the Penguins' only runs of the day. Those runs were charged against Decker, who finished with nine strikeouts in his seven innings of work to earn his fifth victory.

Six of Oakland's runs came on two swings as John Lauinger hit a two-run homer off YSU starter Sloan Ulrich in the third, and Ian Cleary hit a pinch-hit grand slam in Oakland's six-run eighth that put the Golden Grizzlies ahead 11-0. In between, Oakland scored twice in the sixth and once in the seventh.

In the bottom of the eighth, RJ Sherwood walked, and Chase Franken hit a pitch-hit single to finish Decker's day. Krzysiak struck out Joe Suarez for the first out, but he walked Trey Law to load the bases and allowed a two-run single to center by Stanley. With runners at the corners, Alejandro Covas hit a hard grounder to the left side of the infield that Sam Griffith backhanded and turned into an inning-ending double play.

Oakland finished with 14 hits, and four Golden Grizzlies had two hits. Youngstown State was held to three hits.

Ulrich was charged with the loss, allowing four runs on seven hits in five innings. Mitchell Seymour, Casey Marshalwitz and Nolan Kubilus were each scored upon out of the bullpen, and Gavin Wilms pitched a scoreless ninth.

Youngstown State will be off during the week to concentrate on final exams, and it will resume Horizon League play on Friday at Northern Kentucky.