Baseball Powers Its Way Past Youngstown State

Friday, April 20

Niles, OH

3:00 PM

Wright State University

19-13, 12-6

Youngstown State

11-22, 4-9

Wright State

Youngstown State

4/20/2007 12:00:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: WSU Athletic Media Relations

The Wright State baseball team pounded out three home runs and senior Erich Schanz threw eight solid innings as WSU defeated Youngstown State 9-3 on Friday afternoon. The Green and Gold outhit the Penguins 13-7 in the victory at Eastwood Field near the campus of YSU.

The Raiders got the offense started in the first inning as Jeremy Hamilton sent an offering from YSU starter Lucas Engel over the right field fence. It was the third home run of the season for Hamilton and gave WSU an early 1-0 lead.

Wright State capitalized on three errors and added a pair of unearned runs in the second inning. Casey McGrew reached singled to start the inning and Brian Shoup reached base after the first error of the inning, moving McGrew to second. After a sacrifice bunt, Aaron Fields chopped a ball up the middle that the YSU shortstop misplayed, allowing McGrew and Shoup to score.

With the lead at 3-0, the Green and Gold opened up their lead with a four run, fourth inning to push their lead to 7-0. Jeremy Hamilton doubled, scoring Oeder, and Justin Parker smashed a home run to plate the final two runs of the inning.

The Raiders tallied a lone run in the fifth inning on a Fields double and Shoup capped the scoring in the seventh inning with a solo home run.

Schanz threw eight innings and allowed single runs in the fourth and fifth innings, but shut down the Penguins (11-22, 4-9 HL) offense most of the day. Schanz scattered six hits, struck out five batters and didn't issue a walk in the game. The senior improved to 4-3 overall in 2007 and lowered his ERA to 3.35.

The Raiders had four players collect two hits and five other Raiders chipped in one hit. Hamilton and Parker each drove in a pair runs, colleting two hits, while Shoup and Fields each recorded one RBI in the contest.

Wright State improves to 19-11 overall and are now 12-6 in Horizon League play and will play a double-header tomorrow afternoon against Youngstown State. The Raiders and Penguins will take to the field at 1:00 for two, nine inning contests at Eastwood Field.

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