Baseball Defeats Dayton, Cedarville in Doubleheader

Tuesday, April 24

Dayton, OH

3:00 PM

Wright State University

22-14

Dayton

17-22

Wright State

Dayton

4/24/2007 12:00:00 PM | Baseball

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By: WSU Athletic Media Relations

The Wright State baseball team swept a day-night, doubleheader against two different opponents on Tuesday, winning 6-4 at Dayton in ten innings and beating Cedarville at home, 11-3, in the nightcap. The Raiders were led by a two-RBI game from Brian Shoup at UD and three RBI's apiece from Stephen Marquez and J.C. Ramatowski against Cedarville.

The Raiders took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning against Dayton, scoring on a throwing error by Dayton starting pitcher Chris Beesley. Casey McGrew's sacrifice bunt was thrown wide of first base.

Wright State starter Dan Barker threw four innings and held the Flyers offense at bay, allowing only four hits and walking two batters. Chris Nighland would come on to throw two scoreless innings in relief to hold the Raiders lead at 1-0. Nighland allowed only one hit and struck out a batter in the appearance.

WSU extended their lead to 2-0 in the seventh inning on a Gerald Ogrinc solo home run. Ogrinc sent a 2-1 offering from Beesley over the left field fence for his second round-tripper of the season.

Alex Kaminsky came on in the seventh inning to relieve Nighland and surrendered the first run of the game to UD. A Scott Dunwoody single was followed by a Bobby Getty double, putting runners on second and third with no outs. Kaminsky coaxed a line out by the next batter and the run scored on a Joe McSoley ground out to third base.

With WSU leading 2-1, the Flyers took the lead on a pair of RBI singles from Dunwoody and Getty. Kaminsky hit Frank Tedesco to start the inning before retiring the next two batters, with Tedesco moving to third. Nate Stevens came on to relieve Kaminsky and hit the first batter he faced to put runners on the corners. McSoley then singled to center field to score the game tying run and Getty singled up the middle to score the go ahead run.

The Raiders tied the game up in the ninth inning when McGrew singled and stole second base to start the inning. Shoup then sent a ball into the left-center field, scoring McGrew, to tie the game at 3-3. With Shoup on first, UD reliever Lucas Farden hit Ogrinc and walked John Kopilchack to load the bases. Ross Oeder then hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Shoup, to give WSU a 4-3 lead.

Stevens walked the leadoff batter in the ninth inning and after retiring the next two batters, before Haselhorst singled up the middle to tie the game at 4-4. The Flyers (17-22) couldn't hold the Raiders in the extra frame though.

The Green and Gold loaded the bases in the tenth inning with walks to Dan Biedenharn, McGrew and Parker. The go-ahead run crossed the plate when Shoup's fly ball to center field allowed Biedenharn to score to give WSU a 5-4 lead. Aaron Field then singled to drive in Parker from third and provide the final margin of victory for WSU at 6-4.

Nate Stevens threw the final 2.1 innings to pick up his second win of the season, improving to 2-0 overall. Stevens allowed two runs on four hits and struck out two batters.

In the game at Dayton, seven different Raiders collected hits and Shoup drove in a pair of RBI's in the contest. Oeder extended his hitting streak to seven games and Parker scored a pair of runs in the victory.

In game two, the Raiders hosted Cedarville and tallied a run in each of the first six innings to come away with the 11-3 victory. Oeder got things started when he scored on a Jeremy Hamilton sacrifice fly in the first inning and drove in an RBI in the second inning to give WSU an early 2-0 lead.

The Raiders added a pair of runs in the third inning on a sacrifice fly from Marquez and an RBI single from Ramatowski. WSU then tallied a single run in the fourth inning on John Kopilchack fourth home run of the season, a solo shot to down the right field line.

Wright State added two runs in the fifth inning when Marquez followed a Hamilton single with his first home run of the season. Marquez sent a towering shot over the right-center field fence for his first career home run and pushed the Raiders lead to 7-0.

Cedarville added an unearned run in the sixth inning, but the Green and Gold responded with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Biedenharn drove in an RBI and scored on an error, while Ramatowski plated a pair of runs on an error by the center fielder.

Cedarville would cap the scoring in the eighth inning with a pair of runs and make the final margin 11-3 in favor of WSU. Wright State outhit the Yellow Jackets 14-6, with eight different Raiders posting at least one hit.

Oeder was three-for-three in game two and set a new career-high for runs scored, with 51, as he crossed the plate twice against CU. Marquez and Ramatowski each drove in three RBI's, while Hamilton scored three runs and collected his team-high 40th RBI.

The Raiders are now 24-14 on the season and will next be in action on Friday, April 27, at Milwaukee. The Raiders and Panthers will square off in the first game of a three-game series at 4:00 Dayton time at Henry Aaron Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.